A new legislation that has been announced by North Carolina’s Attorney General Josh Stein and Rep. Jason Saine would soon make ransomware attack disclosure mandatory in North Carolina. The proposed…
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A free decryption tool for recovering files that have been encrypted by the PyLocky has been released by Cisco’s Talos Intelligence Group. Written in python PyLocky is ransomware masquerading as…
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Ryuk, which made its debut in August 2018, is different from other ransomware, not because of its capabilities, but because of the way it infects systems. According to Kelly Sheridan…
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On August 24, 2018, column, we have reported here in Hackercombat.com the rise of Ryuk ransomware, allegedly created by the North Korean regime as one of the most profitable ransomware…
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According to a new Malwarebytes report, and the article cited in Tech Target Network, a new kind of ransomware, which will be completely fileless, called Sorebrect, is “one of the first…
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For 2018, we in Hackercombat.com have discussed the implications of NoPetya/Petya ransomware multiple times, it was featured in at least 6 articles in this website. The Petya and NoPetya families…
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Kryptos Logic the company that monitors the malware warned the IT world that the ransomware is still active. More versions have been spewed by criminals, so a rich collection of…
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Oregon’s North Bend City is the latest victim of a notorious ransomware attack, which paralyzed the operation of the city’s local government employees. The initial ransom demand was $50,000 worth…
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Ransomware the file encrypter has already infected thousands of computers across the globe. In May 2017, Ransomware had infected 100,000 organizations in 150 countries. That happened three days after Ransomware…
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A sextortion attack campaign involving the GandCrab ransomware has been targeting thousands across the U.S. Reports say that an ongoing sextortion campaign has been targeting thousands of internet users across…
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