The Colorado Department of Transportation (DOT) has shut down over 2,000 computers after some systems got infected with the SamSam ransomware on Wednesday, February 21. The agency’s IT staff is working with its antivirus provider McAfee to remediate affected workstations and safeguard other endpoints before before …
Several third-party anti-ransomware software are around to help you protect your data from ransomware. Many users are using third-party anti-ransomware protection like Acronis Ransomware Protection free to prevent ransomware from encrypting their data. If you are running version 1709 or greater version of Windows 10, …
This has been an interesting week in ransomware news. We had the GandCrab ransomware being released and distributed by exploit kits, TOR gateways stealing ransom payments from ransomware devs, and a bunch of towns getting hit with ransomware. Contributors and those who provided new ransomware information …
Michael Gillespie discovered a new Cryptomix variant uploaded to ID-Ransomware this week. Today, I was able to find a sample so we can see what has changed. For the most part, it is the same as previous variants except it now appends the .SYSTEM extension to …
Acronis Ransomware Protection is a new security program for Windows designed to protect the system against ransomware attacks. Users of Acronis True Image 2018 may notice that it looks similar to the built-in anti-ransomware protection of Acronis’ backup solution. Acronis Ransomware Protection is a standalone version …
While viruses corrupted systems, Ransomware did even worse. These rogue programs can encrypt your files, leaving you with zero access. If you do not have backups, then the only way out of this is to pay money to the authors of the Ransomware or see …
Legal services and e-discovery giant Epiq Global took their systems offline on Saturday after the Ryuk Ransomware was deployed and began encrypting devices on their network. On March 2nd, legal reporter Bob Ambrogi broke the news that Epiq had globally taken their systems offline after detecting …
A newly discovered Mailto (NetWalker) ransomware strain can inject malicious code into the Windows Explorer process so that the malware can evade detection. While this ransomware first spotted in August 2019 is known as Mailto based on the extension it appends to all encrypted files, according …
