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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A new ransomware strain has infected and disrupted the functioning of more than 20,000 PCs in China, as per reports. ZDNet reports, “Over 20,000 Chinese users have had their Windows…
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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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2017 was the year of ransomware, most especially WannaCry, which single-handedly earned its authors an estimated $4 billion in ransom payment. Though the hype of the ransomware infection globally has…
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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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In the real world, emergency response teams regularly perform drills in order to train their staff on how to act in case a real emergency occurs. These drills enable first…
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The massive change of malware trends happened last year when WannaCry of 2017 figuratively took the IT world to a terrible storm. The world has changed forever, as virus authors…
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Ransomware has been very effective and profitable for virus authors for strictly one reason, many of its victims and future victims have one thing in common: lack of credible backup…
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Apparently, the notorious cybercrime community named TA505 is very active again, this time they are heavily testing in the wild the effectiveness of a new variant of a remote access…
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WannaCry, the worst malware of 2017, netting its own virus author an estimated global profit of $4 billion has not ended its run yet. 2018 as a year of ransomware…
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