NHS England’s local NHS systems and IT services have been buckling under “a suspected national cyber attack”, according to reports coming through this afternoon. Areas noted to have been affected include; London, Blackburn, Blackpool, Nottingham, Cumbria and Hertfordshire. In Blackpool, for example, phone and IT systems …
Dharma Ransomware now officially has decryptor keys. Kaspersky RakhniDecryptor v 1.17.17.0 & ESET Crysis Decryptor v 2.0.3.0 have been updated to decrypt Dharma ransomware encrypted files and remove the malware. Kaspersky has tested and legitimized the master decryptor keys that were leaked online on some …
Ransomware, in general, is deadly, but sometimes their authors may not be intelligent enough to make them lethal enough, and that’s what happened with the new Ransomware kid, Lamdelim.A. Win32/Lamdelim.A has been detected as locking victim’s PC in exchange for ransom. This lockscreen ransomware doesn’t …
Today several corporates are victims of Ransomware attacks, and they are struggling hard with this ever-growing risk of ransomware infections. But did you know Windows 10 could actually help these enterprises to detect and stop the further spread of ransomware infection much more quickly? Yes, …
Today’s malware authors are getting smarter with advancement in the technology. Gone are the days when cyber criminals like these, were working as lone wolfs. Now, cyber crimes are becoming an organized effort and hence Ransomware is becoming powerful than ever before. Ransomware encrypts & …
According to a report published by Network security company, SonicWall, there was a decline in the Malware attacks in 2016, however at the same time Ransomware attacks multiplied by hundreds. Statistics reveal that unique malware samples collected fell to 60 million as compared with 64 …
Usually when the government fails to do something, partisan gridlock is blamed. In the case of Licking County, Ohio, the local government has all but shut down thanks to ransomware hijacking the county’s computers. The issue was discovered Tuesday, when government officials were unable to access …
Ransomware is putting the entire Internet in peril and the worst part is that many users still don’t deem it necessary to protect themselves from the same. For instance, despite being online for my work the entire day I myself was surprised to find that …
The authors of the XiaoBa ransomware have retooled their malware’s code into a cryptocurrency miner (coinminer). Unfortunately, despite not encrypting files anymore, the XiaoBa coinminer still destroys users’ data thanks to a series of bugs that primarily corrupt a user’s executable files. History of the XiaoBa …
To better protect your valuable data from malicious apps and threats like Ransomware, Microsoft introduces a new feature called Controlled folder access in the recent Windows 10 Falls Creators Update. When enabled, it monitors the changes that apps make to the files in certain protected folders …
