Cruddy cryptography means victims whose files have been encrypted by the Ukraine-tormenting ransomware can break the chains without paying extortionists.
It’s not just Ukraine: There’s a flood of intel on Russian military, nukes and crooks, says dark-web intel expert Vinny Troia, even with the Conti ransomware gang shuttering its leaking Jabber chat server.
The decryptor spilled by ContiLeaks won’t work with recent victims. Conti couldn’t care less: It’s still operating just fine. Still, the dump is a bouquet’s worth of intel.
The ransomware gang known as Cuba is increasingly shifting to exploiting Exchange bugs – including crooks’ favorites, ProxyShell and ProxyLogon – as initial infection vectors.
Ransomware is getting worse, but Daniel Spicer, chief security officer at Ivanti, offers a checklist for choosing defense solutions to meet the challenge.
Sonya Duffin, ransomware and data-protection expert at Veritas Technologies, shares three steps organizations can take today to reduce cyberattack fallout.
Demand for public Wi-Fi is on the rise. Usually free of charge, but there is a risk of expensive losses. Learn ways to protect yourself from cyber-threats.
With human error being the common factor in most cyberattacks, employee training has got to get better. To that end, Trustwave cybersec training expert Darren Van Booven explains the importance of fish stress balls and management buy-in.
Nothing like zombie campaigns: WannaCry’s old as dirt, and GandCrab threw in the towel years ago. They’re on auto-pilot at this point, researchers say.
The overall number of attacks on mobile users is down, but they’re getting slicker, both in terms of malware functionality and vectors, researchers say.
