by Surur
1 month
The original Hafnium server hacks were likely espionage-motivated, but now the predicted second wave driven clearly by criminal intent has started. Microsoft has confirmed hackers are attacking unpatched Exchange servers and insta...
by Pradeep
4 months
The Institute for Security and Technology (IST) is partnering with experts from industry, government, law enforcement, nonprofits, and cybersecurity insurance to form the new Ransomware Task Force (RTF). Microsoft is one of the fo...
by Anmol
1 year
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was one of the attendees at the RSA 2020 conference which covers security and is attended by big companies like IBM and AT&T. This year, the conference lacked involvement from major tech g...
by Surur
1 year
Ransomware affects PC users big and small, with a number of municipalities recently severely hit and crippled for weeks by software which encrypts their data and demand payment to make the computing infrastructure work again. The ...
by Surur
1 year
Sophos’s research team has identified a new exploit in the wild which uses a Windows feature to bypass security software installed on a PC. The Snatch ransomware crashes your computer and forces it to reboot into Safe Mode. ...
by Anmol
3 years
It has not been long since we talked about Spectre and Meltdown. Now, a new ransomware has been spotted online. This ransomware is called The Annabelle Ransomware. This new ransomware was discovered by a Security Researcher name...
by Pradeep
3 years
I’m sure many of you would have heard of free software programs that scan computers for various errors, and then use alarming messages to scare innocent users into buying a premium version of the software to fix those errors...
by Surur
4 years
When WannaCrypt rolled out in April it was already very clear how to protect yourself – fully-patched PCs were not vulnerable at all, as Microsoft had just released a software update designed to specifically address the vuln...
by Pradeep
4 years
A new ransomware called Petya, like WannaCry, is using Eternal Blue exploit developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to spread across the world. Ukraine’s national banks, power companies, airport, metro services ...
by Surur
4 years
We wrote yesterday that a security researcher, Adrien Guinet from France-based Quarkslab, has found a way to retrieve the encryption keys used by the Wannacrypt ransomware without having to pay the $300 ransom. His application, WC...
by Surur
4 years
A security researcher has found a way to retrieve the encryption keys used by the Wannacrypt ransomware without having to pay the $300 ransom. His application, WCry, plucks the key right out of the memory of an affected system, bu...