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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BJC HealthCare, a non-profit healthcare firm headquartered in St. Louis Missouri became a victim of malware which is now being blamed for the loss of personally identifiable information, including credit…
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Security experts have been using isolated real-world systems in order to forensically study malware for ages. These ‘honey pots’ are very productive instruments for developing countermeasures against malware. The quarantined…
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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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Old things never get old, that is the central message expressed by Mimecast Limited, a cybersecurity company as they released their latest Email Security Risk Assessment report for the 3rd…
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With over a billion machines operating on Windows, a testament to Microsoft’s near monopoly as the OS market, it’s no surprise that the software giant’s product has become the favorite…
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Last Dec 3, 2018, we have reported here in Hackercombat.com the story about the Marriott Hotel Chain’s Data Breach, which heavily exposed the personal records of their 500 guests for…
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The threat of Ransomware is becoming lesser this year 2018 compared to last year, as virus authors focused their energies in developing cryptocurrency mining malware AKA cryptojacking virus, the former…
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The growth of Bitcoin and its derivative cryptocurrencies have expanded people’s point-of-view on what it really is, a new representation of real-world money. We used to associate money to currency,…
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For decades, malware, especially those that can be considered as ‘weaponized’ have been proven developed by state-actors. State-actors are country-hired hackers, with the purpose of developing weaponized software in order…
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