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Updates to Specific Ransomware Families and Types: Kieren McCarthy for The Register: It’s begun: ‘First’ IPv6 denial-of-service attack puts IT bods on notice Brian Krebs: Powerful New DDoS Method Adds Extortion “Attack… Continue reading March 3rd 2018 resources update
Meltdown/Spectre – Related Resources John Cable: Update on Spectre and Meltdown security updates for Windows devices (in ‘Microsoft’ section Commentary from The Register: Microsoft lobs Skylake Spectre microcode fixes out th… Continue reading March 2nd 2018 resources update
Meltdown/Spectre – Related Resources John Cable: Update on Spectre and Meltdown security updates for Windows devices (in ‘Microsoft’ section Commentary from The Register: Microsoft lobs Skylake Spectre microcode fixes out th… Continue reading March 2nd 2018 resources update
CRYPTOCURRENCY/CRYPTO-MINING NEWS AND RESOURCES Josh Grunzweig for Palo Alto/Unit 42: Monero Miners Continue to Plague Users via Russian BitTorrent Site – “The latest identified threat comes in the form of a Russian BitTorrent sit… Continue reading March 1st 2018 resources update
Updates to RYPTOCURRENCY/CRYPTO-MINING NEWS AND RESOURCES Ana Dascalescu for Heimdal: What Is Cryptojacking And How To Avoid This Attack – “Find out what blockchain is, why criminals want Monero coins and how to keep safe fro… Continue reading February 28th 2018 resources updates
Updates for the CRYPTOCURRENCY/CRYPTO-MINING NEWS AND RESOURCES page. John Leyden for The Register: Opt-in cryptomining script Coinhive ‘barely used’ say researchers. Malwarebytes says that few sites are using the opt-in version o… Continue reading February 27th 2018 resources updates
I just came across an article for HelpNet by Jeff Erramouspe (Spanning Cloud) on How to protect Office 365 data from ransomware attacks. Not a technical article, but not bad advice, and I haven’t publicized a how-to article on ransomwar… Continue reading Office 365 ransomware
MELTDOWN/SPECTRE – RELATED RESOURCES [23rd February 2018] The Register: Intel didn’t tell CERTS, govs, about Meltdown and Spectre because they couldn’t help fix it – Letters to Congress detail the plan to keep CPU flaws sec… Continue reading AVIEN resource page updates 23rd February 2018
CRYPTOCURRENCY/CRYPTO-MINING NEWS AND RESOURCES Sean Nichols for The Register: Guys, you’re killing us! LA Times homicide site hacked to mine crypto-coins on netizens’ PCs “The newspaper’s IT staffers left at least one of t… Continue reading AVIEN resource page updates 22nd February 2018
There are plenty of articles offering guidance on preventing or dealing with ransomware, but this one has a good list of decryption tools, so well worth a look. Ana Dascalesu for Heimdal: Ransomware Decryption Tools – Unlock Your Data for Fr… Continue reading Heimdal’s Anti-Ransomware Guide