Collaborate Disseminate
Tara Seals for Infosecurity Magazine: Tech Support Scam Malware Fakes the Blue Screen of Death “The infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is one of the most-dreaded sights for Windows users. Adding insult to injury, a new malware is making th… Continue reading Fake BSOD, Fake Tech Support
Microsoft’s Windows Security Blog on Technet: New tech support scam launches communication or phone call app “A new tech support scam technique streamlines the entire scam experience, leaving potential victims only one click or tap awa… Continue reading Streamlining a Tech Support Scam
For Sophos, Mark Stockley describes how scammers are using RDP, a tool intended to cut down network and system administration costs for companies by allowing sysadmins and help-desk operators to access their customers’ systems remotely, to give t… Continue reading Ransomware via RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol)
For Sophos, Mark Stockley describes how scammers are using RDP, a tool intended to cut down network and system administration costs for companies by allowing sysadmins and help-desk operators to access their customers’ systems remotely, to give t… Continue reading Ransomware via RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol)
The second part of a two-part report by Intermedia deals specifically with ransomware and includes a link to a video which I’m afraid I haven’t watched. There are also some interesting statistics. When a ransom gets paid, who pays it? According to Intermedia, 59% of employees have paid personally, and only 37% of those surveyed said […]
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Bleeping Computer: New Nuclear BTCWare Ransomware Released (Updated) Lawrence Abrams notes: “Michael Gillespie discovered that the developers of this variant messed up on the encryption of files greater than 10MB in file size and will not be able to decrypt them. It was also discovered that this same behavior was seen with other files of random sizes. […] Continue reading BTCWare/Nuclear – don’t pay up!
Andra Zaharia, security evangelist at Heimdal, has published a very useful and exhaustive checklist for reducing your exposure to ransomware: The Anti-Ransomware Protection Plan You Need to Follow Today. I get tired of reading ‘how to defend against ransomware’ articles that miss out vital points like not staying permanently connected to in-the-cloud storage, but this one […] Continue reading Heimdal’s Anti-Ransomware Protection Plan
Well, this isn’t the first time. But a report by Kat Hall for The Register suggests that some of the scammers may have more information about potential victims than they should. Which makes me wonder whether there’s a leak similar to that affecting TalkTalk customers. I’ve certainly been contacted in the past by BT sales […] Continue reading Tech Support Scammers Target BT Customers
…well, there’s no foolproof way of doing that, unfortunately. But Shaun Nichols reports for The Register that FTC ready to give back tech support scamming money to the bilked. “Those who have been identified as eligible by the FTC will get an email from the commission with a PIN number that can be used to obtain the claim […] Continue reading Tech support scams – FTC offers money back…
Lawrence Abrams, for Bleeping Computer, describes how the SyncCrypt Ransomware Hides Inside JPG Files, Appends .KK Extension. The article describes ransomware discovered by EmsiSoft’s xXToffeeXx, distributed as spam attachments containing WSF (Windows Script File) objects. The WSF script pulls down images containing embedded Zip files. Abrams reports that the ‘WSF attachments are pretending to be court orders […] Continue reading SyncCrypt: Getting the Ransomware Picture?