Tag: ransomware

August 30, 2019

Hundreds of dental offices across the US have been crippled by a ransomware attack targeting a remote data backup service offered by a third-party. PerCSoft and Digital Dental Record (DDR) — the two Wisconsin-based software companies — provide a solution […]

April 27, 2017

The hackers spreading ransomware are getting greedier. In 2016, the average ransom demand to free computers hit with the infection rose to US$1,077, up from $294 the year before, according to security firm Symantec. “Attackers clearly think that there’s more […]

April 19, 2017

Cybercriminals have another easy-to-use ransomware kit to add to their arsenals, thanks to a new variant called Karmen that hackers can buy on the black market for $175. A Russian-speaking user called DevBitox has been advertising the ransomware in underground […]

March 28, 2017

Ransomware is not your friend. It’s lurking out there to take over your computer and business systems to extort money from you. Keeping this wolf from your door takes some doing. The sneak attacks come attached to emails. When opened, […]

February 16, 2017

Ransomware is increasingly becoming a problem for companies, and the CEO of a leading computer security company says he fears 2017 could see entire companies shut down until they pay up, or risk losing all their data. Ransomware works by […]

February 7, 2017

A global cyberthreat report released Tuesday found that 2016 was a mixed bag: malware was down slightly, but ransomware attacks soared, up 167 times the number recorded in 2015. In addition to that huge increase in ransomware, 2016 saw a […]

January 6, 2017

A malicious program called KillDisk that has been used in the past to wipe data from computers during cyberespionage attacks is now encrypting files and asking for an unusually large ransom. KillDisk was one of the components associated with the […]

December 13, 2016

According to Symantec’s 2016 Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), there were more than 4,000 ransomware attacks per day since Jan 1, 2016, a 300-percent increase over 2015, which saw an average 1,000 attacks per day, according to the ISTR. While […]

August 16, 2016

Hell hath no fury like a security expert scammed, or so goes the saying. A group of online scammers learned this the hard way when they tried to trick researcher Ivan Kwiatkowski’s parents into paying for phony antivirus software. The […]

August 1, 2016

Earlier this week, SentinelOne announced that it will reimburse customers for up to $1 million if they are hit by a ransomware attack, but some experts say that this is a marketing gimmick and no replacement for a solid cyberinsurance […]

July 26, 2016

SentinelOne is offering a to pay customers $1,000 per endpoint for customers’ machines that get infected by ransomware if its products don’t either block or remediate the problem. The deal is for customers who use the company’s Endpoint Protection Platform […]

July 20, 2016

The U.S. Department of Human Services has released new guidance for health care organizations that focuses on the growing threat of ransomware, stresses the need for better education and regular backups, and confirms that a ransomware attack against plain-text health […]