Ransomware

IBM’s X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (also known as IRIS) has issued a report, detailing the growth of destructive malware that infected the corporate space. The cybersecurity arm of Big Blue has disclosed that 12,316 corporate Internet-connected devices were rendered offline, costing $239 million to replace and reconfigure in an average malware attack for

Alabama’s Houston County Schools are in a dilemma, as the start of its school year had to be delayed in order to buy more time in recovering from a malware attack. The school’s officials are tightlipped about what specific malware strain infected the schools’ networks. However, like what we have reported multiple times here, only

It is becoming fairly common that small city or municipalities are the most profitable victims of cyber threats and cyber attacks using their ransomware campaigns. Here, we have featured at least two cities that were victims of ransomware infection, Riviera City (Florida) and Baltimore (Maryland). The city councils of both cities decided to pay the

The system admins’ favorite antivirus program Malwarebytes has released the State of Malware Report covering the first quarter of 2019, highlighting the state of malware globally. The highlight of the report is the visible decreasing frequency of global ransomware infections, from 12 million incidents recorded in the first quarter of 2018 to just 4 million

This article is written for the purpose of empowering our readers with much deeper knowledge of ransomware, with the goal of lessening the chance that your Windows computer will be the next victim. Ransomware is a type of malware that ranks high on the Internet as cybercriminal’s favorite milking-cow. A computer infected with this virus

Smartphones are an indispensable tool for many people, it becomes the most personal computer of all personal computers. The realization of information at your fingertips that Bill Gates was selling way back from the mid-’90s, but only came to the mainstream market in 2007 with the release of Apple’s first iPhone. Although smartphones are now

Mainstream Anti-malware vendor, Trend Micro recently revealed the existence of project PCastle, a Monero-based cryptocurrency mining malware launched against China powered by its fileless feature. Once again, the favorite tool of hackers: Windows PowerShell. Other than the developers and system administrators, PowerShell is one of the least features used by a non-technical end-user, but a

Two years ago in 2017, the world was caught off guard by a very destructive ransomware named WannaCry. With its infection success rate, estimates revealed that ransom payment for WannaCry went up to $4 billion that year. The NSA’s former top secret weaponized bug in SMB (Server Message Block) version 1 went to the wrong

Xwo, a newly revealed web service vulnerability scanning malware discovered by Alien Labs, a subsidiary of AT&T, was named after the very dropper which serves as it propagating module with a file named xwo.exe. Unlike a typical ransomware that immediately issues an encryption process against the user files, Xwo was more of a monitoring-type kind

In this article, we give you a brief review of what is ransomware, the headache of all system administrators and people who work in IT support for years. Ransomware is a favorite cash cow of cyber criminals (aside from phishing), as reflected by how WannaCry, world-infamous ransomware which earned $4 billion for its authors. As