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“It’s critical to not only back up your critical workloads, but also to secure those backups against subsequent modification and deletion.”
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Companies advertising ransomware recovery services often simply pay the attackers their ransom demand in exchange for the decryption keys, an investigation into the sector has revealed. A former employee at Proven Data Recovery of Elmsford, New York, t… Continue reading Ransomware recovery firms often just pay attackers’ ransom demands
We are alerting Windows users of a new type of ransomware that exhibits worm-like behavior. This ransom leverages removable and network drives to propagate itself and affect more users. We detect this ransomware as Ransom:Win32/ZCryptor.A. Infection vector Ransom:Win32/ZCryptor.A is distributed through the spam email infection vector. It also gets installed in your machine through… Continue reading Link (.lnk) to Ransom
For the past three months, we have seen ransomware hop its way across globe. Majority of the ransomware incidents are found in the United States, then Italy, and Canada. The prevalence of large-scale ransomware incidents led the United States and Canadian governments to issue a joint statement about ransomware. Due to the global ransomware incidents, the… Continue reading The 5Ws and 1H of Ransomware