Let’s say you report to work today and find out that all your critical data repositories have been encrypted by a ransomware attack. A hefty ransomware note is prominently displayed on all
If there’s one thing that’s worse than being compromised by ransomware, it’s realizing that the hack that led to the ransomware compromise happened months earlier without being spotted.
Not only is there a growing rogue’s gallery of ransomware variants, but the tricks they use to strike a victim are growing in variety as well. Malicious URLs Tricking a victim to click a ma
Windows servers and clients are by far the No. 1 operating systems targeted by ransomware, and the attacks are only growing in sophistication, often attacking servers via Remote Desktop Proto
Ransomware attackers have shown their willingness to target the higher levels of U.S. education. North Carolina A&T State University was the target of a ransomware attack in March 2022, b
Just when you think ransomware criminals have exhausted their box of surprises, up pops something brand new nobody saw coming. The latest example, first reported by Bleeping Computer, is a di
Moscow’s Federation Tower is not particularly famous outside Russia, yet thousands of ransomware victims across the world might have an unwelcome connection to some of the companies operati
Public entities in North Carolina are prohibited from paying a ransom demand following an attack, an idea that may be spreading to other U.S. states. According to an article in the National L
This month, our focus is on living-off-the-land techniques, and why they help ransomware threat actors execute attacks more stealthily. The concept of living-off-the-land (LotL) was first int
