ransomware

Wow, $5 million is a lot of money to pay for a ransom. I wonder if gas prices will be higher to earn back the $5 million dollars.

Hopefully, the fuel pipeline shut down won't cause people to not have enough heating oil for home heating, or affect people who get their electricity from gas powered electric generator.

Interestingly enough, security researchers now claim that there’s a clever and concerted campaign to bring the malware back from the dead. The strategy? Taking the kill-switch domain off-line by any means necessary. According to a report from Wired, botnets are now being mobilized to launch a...

Windows XP was ‘insignificant,’ researchers say According to data released today by Kaspersky Lab, roughly 98 percent of the computers affected by the ransomware were running some version of Windows 7, with less than one in a thousand running Windows XP. 2008 R2 Server clients were also hit...

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered new evidence linking the WannaCry ransomware code to North Korea. In a post today, the group detailed a segment of code used in both an early WannaCry variant and a February 2015 sample attributed to the Lazarus Group, a Kaspersky-tracked actor tied to...

And the situation is getting worse. There were predictions that the fast-spreading "WannaCry " (aka "WannaCrypt") ransomware would quickly evolve to get around its domain-based kill switch, and, well... the predictions were right. Security researchers have discovered variants of the Windows...

Microsoft officially ended its support for most Windows XP computers back in 2014, but today it's delivering one more public patch for the 16-year-old OS. As described in a post on its Windows Security blog, it's taking this "highly unusual" step after customers worldwide including England's...

It exploits supposedly NSA-developed vulnerabilities on unpatched Windows systems. England's healthcare system came under a withering cyberattack Friday morning, with "at least 25" hospitals across the country falling prey to ransomware that locked doctors and employees out of critical systems...