Are ransomware groups willing to negotiate with victims on reduced fees? In the case of AvosLocker, the answer seems to be yes. BleepingComputer recently linked to a joint cybersecurity advisory from the FBI and other government agencies that discussed details. The money quote: We have also observed alleged AvosLocker representatives make phone calls to the […]
ActualTech Media moderators David Davis and Scott Bekker had an interesting discussion recently about phishing attacks and how prevalent they remain. This has special relevance to ransomware, as so many ransomware incidents start as phishing attacks. Some of the highlights of their chat include: It’s worth checking out this quick discussion, which served to introduce […]
QNAP Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices have been hit hard by the “DeadBolt” ransomware, leaving thousands without access to their files. The ransomware was first detected in the third week of January 2022. The ransom note that victims got demands a 0.03 Bitcoin ($1,100 US) payment in return for a decryption key. The ransom demand […]
A new year, a new ransomware attack. Portugal’s largest media conglomerate got hit hard over the New Year’s holiday weekend, and is still offline as of this article’s publication on Tuesday, January 4.
Ransomware attacks in 2021 continued to grow in not only frequency, but in cost, according to a new survey. CrowdStrike’s fourth annual Global Security Attitude Survey revealed that 66% of the 2,200 IT and security managers at midsized and large companies said they’d been attacked at least once in the prior 12 months. That number is […]
Readers of this site (as well as our book, “Ransomware: Understand. Prevent. Recover”) will know that ransomware-as-a-service is becoming a popular way for cybercriminals to make money. Now that service model is being applied to zero-day exploits, leading to the rise of “exploit-as-a-service.” The idea behind exploit-as-a-service (EaaS) is that when criminals discover a zero-day […]
