Mobile phones are certainly ubiquitous—85% of Americans currently own a smartphone, and in 2020, 3.5 billion people owned a smartphone worldwide. With so many devices out there, it seems like mobile would be an excellent target for ransomware threat actors. However, we don’t hear a lot about devastating ransomware attacks targeting smartphone operating systems, like […]
The world might just have experienced its first ever hacktivist ransomware attack. It came by way of a claim by campaigners opposed to the regime of President Lukashenko that they encrypted computers belonging to the Belarusian Railway service. The highly unusual attack is said to have happened on Jan. 24, when a group calling itself […]
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 […]
When we think of ransomware, we often imagine a single user’s desktop suddenly hijacked by a ransom message threatening to lock away their hard drive data. The landscape is evolving, however; today, ransomware variants such as Maze and Ryuk attack the victim’s entire network, often via a “back door” opened by exploiting remote desktop protocol […]
Ransomware is a growing threat for everyone, that much is clear. End it affects every major operating system (OS), but not all of them equally. So, which OS is safer – Windows or Linux? Though Windows is the juicier target given its end-user market dominance, and Linux has long laid claim to superior security, the […]
The emergence of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) has produced an eerily successful business model. It provides a would-be attacker with turnkey software that can easily be leveraged to stage attacks against businesses and home-based users. If this makes ransomware sound scarier than you thought, you’re on the right track. The development of RaaS is arguably the biggest […]
