Antivirus Vendors
Names like Locky and CryptoLocker are familiar due to numerous news reports, but if you haven’t heard of the growing threat of ransomware, here’s a quick summary: Ransomware is a type of malware that locks you out of your devices by encrypting your files. In return for access with the decryption key, it demands a payment, typically in bitcoin. In many cases, victims of ransomware cannot recover their files, so a backup is essential.
Be on your guard if you’re a developer who uses GitHub – someone could be trying to infect your computer with malware.
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US consumers are set to lose control over their online privacy as a consequence of the US Congress throwing out incoming rules for Internet Service Providers that would have given consumers a direct say in how ISPs can use their private data. The overturned rules – passed last October but not yet implemented – would […]
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It’s like a wet dream for any driver. While all the others enjoy the stop and go rush hour traffic you’re changing into air-mode, pull ahead and cock a snook at the earthbound drivers. Let’s talk about the new and very conceptional car “Pop.Up”. Airbus and the Italian service provider ItalDesign introduced Pop.Up at the Geneva […]
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The Turla espionage group has been targeting various institutions for many years. Recently, ESET found several new versions of Carbon.
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What You See Is What You Encrypt.
The trend of installing malware on corporate networks through the Remote Desktop Protocol is booming among cybercriminals. In the last few months we have analyzed several cases of ransomware attacks directed at companies from different European countries that share this methodology and are being perpetrated by the same attackers.
Once credentials are obtained through a brute force attack on the RDP, the cybercriminals gain access to the computer.
At this point, when the goal is to deploy ransomware, attackers simply execute the corresponding malware automatically to start encryption and ultimately display the ransom message. However, here we can see a more personalized type of attack
In the intrusion analyzed, we see that the ransomware has an interface through which it can be configured according to the attacker’s preferences, starting with the email address that will appear in the ransom note that will be sent to the victim.
With this customized attack, it’s possible to hand-pick the network computers whose information the attacker would like to encrypt, choose files, self-delete upon completing the encryption, enter stealth mode, etc.
The survival of any company in a digital environment calls for establishing a solid corporate network security strategy. Prevention in the face of unknown cybersecurity threats with the goal of neutralizing it as soon as possible, or blocking an attacker should he succeed in gaining entry to the system, plays a role of top priority today.
In the present case study, from PandaLabs we blocked attack attempts that used this form of ransomware against companies protected by Adaptive Defense in Germany, Belgium, Sweden, and Spain.
Here are the MD5s of the ransomware:
A timely investment in prevention, detection, and response technologies, instead of adopting perimeter-based solutions, guarantees better preparation in the defense against cyberattacks.
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According new data from the Kaspersky Lab Financial Institutions Security Risks 2016 , the costs associated with cyberattacks affecting the financial sector are rising as organizations face increasingly sophisticated threats. In the U.S., the cost of a cybersecurity incident to a financial institution can be as much as $1,165,000.
Eugene Kaspersky, Chairman and CEO of Kaspersky Lab, has just returned from the first Antarctic Biennale expedition – a creative journey that brought together artists, researchers, technology visionaries and philosophers in search of a universal, cultural future for Antarctica.
I fell for it the first time I answered a call. A friendly female voice hesitated, then giggled the line, “Can you hear me?” After I answered, “Yes”, it took me a few seconds to realize I had been fooled. It wasn’t a silly girl with a bad connection calling me on behalf of Disney Vacations – I had just been targeted by a robocaller. By then it was too late.
The best way to learn Data Science is to do data science. Following this motto, Avira collaborated with the University of Liechtenstein and participated at the winter semester 2016/2017 seminar “Data Science” with a real-world data science problem. Liene Blija, Christian Holder, Jan Plojhar, and Martin Lukšík — four brave students — accepted the challenge to […]
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