ransomware
FBI says ransomware victims paid over $140 million to attackers
by Anmol
4 months
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...
Should you pay Ransomware attackers? Microsoft says no
by Surur
7 months
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 ...
Snatch ransomware use Safe Mode loophole to beat Windows defenses
by Surur
7 months
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. ...
Annabelle Ransomware is new vulnerability you should be careful about!
by Anmol
2 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...
Windows Defender Antivirus will remove software that display coercive messages starting in March
by Pradeep
2 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...
There is one way to protect yourself from Petya confirms Microsoft
by Surur
3 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...
Following WannaCry, another major ransomware Petya spreading across the world
by Pradeep
3 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 ...
Free WannaCrypt decrypter now available as long as you did not reboot your PC
by Surur
3 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...
Free but limited ransomware decryption tool for Windows XP developed
by Surur
3 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...
Microsoft release Wannacrypt patch for unsupported Windows XP, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2003
by Surur
3 years
As the Wannacrypt ransomware spread to 99 countries around the world, mainly infecting legacy Windows operating systems, Microsoft has responded with guidance and help for products which have long exited support. Calling the attac...
