Collaborate Disseminate
TechTarget’s Kathleen Richards surveys the ransomware scene and suggests that Even with rise in crypto-ransomware, majority do not pay. She’s talking about businesses rather than home users: a reasonably good generalist article, though, with commentary from big names such as Ryan Naraine and Paul Vixie. David Harley Continue reading Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay?
An article by Charlie Osborne for ZDnet/Zero Day includes an alphabetical list of ransomware families for which decrypters are available, with links. It’s not, of course, a complete list (either of remediable ransomware or of reputable sources of decrypters) but the sources it does list are indeed reputable. As we’re seeing an increasing number of […] Continue reading Decrypters info
I recently received a spate of emails from a PR person suggesting that I add Lee Munson’s article on The history of ransomware to the AVIEN ransomware resources pages. I nearly ignored it altogether because I don’t respond well to PR pressure. It’s one of the few things I have in common with career journalists… […] Continue reading Backup, PR Pressure and Ransomware
While I’ve been occupying various workfree zones for the past few weeks, ransomware has evidently not gone away. Older versions of screenlockers often labelled Android.Lockscreen denied Android users access to their own devices by locking the screen using a hardcoded passcode, which could be found by reverse engineering. However, as Dinesh Venkatesan reports for Symantec: New variants of Android.Lockscreen […] Continue reading Android Screenlockers using pseudorandomized passcode
Reported on Bleeping Computer here. Description by David Bisson for Tripwire: Website Down? New FairWare Ransomware Could Be Responsible David Harley Continue reading ‘Fairware’ Linux Ransomware
For Malwarebytes, Jérôme Segura gives details of some tricks currently used by tech support scammers to deceive Chrome users. Tech support scams and Google Chrome tricks Commentary from Help Net Security: Google Chrome users targeted by tech support scammers David Harley ESET Senior Research Fellow Continue reading Support Scammers Taking the Shine off Chrome
I’ve intended for a while to break out some of the scattered information in the ransomware resource page and sub-pages into its own Ransomware Recovery and Prevention page. And finally got around to it. Much of the same information (and more) remains in the Ransomware Resources page and/or sub-pages. (Sorry, but I’m happy to duplicate information where […] Continue reading Ransomware Recovery and Prevention page.
In an article called Ransomware locks experts in debate over ethics of paying, Bradley Barth picks up on a point I made in my blog article for ESET – Ransomware: To pay or not to pay?. He quotes both my article for ESET and some subsequent commentary by my friend and colleague Stephen Cobb. I may […] Continue reading SC Magazine on paying ransomware crooks
Lawrence Abrams for Bleeping Computer: The Globe Ransomware wants to Purge your Files Jornt van der Wiel, for Kaspersky: Wildfire, the ransomware threat that takes Holland and Belgium hostage. Summary/commentary by Darren Pauli for The Register: Intel douses Wildfire ransomware as-a-service Euro menace – Group scored $79k a month with infect-o-tronic rent-a-bot Lawrence Abrams for Bleeping Computer: New Alma Locker Ransomware […] Continue reading Quick ransomware links roundup
Lawrence Abrams for Bleeping Computer: New DetoxCrypto Ransomware pretends to be PokemonGo or uploads a Picture of your Screen Commentary by David Bisson for Graham Cluley’s blog: DetoxCrypto ransomware-as-a-service rears its ugly head Info added to resources pages. David Harley Continue reading DetoxCrypto ransomware