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Companies such as Siemens and Bayer are planning to release patches for medical devices hit by the ransomware WannaCry over the past several days. Continue reading Patches Pending for Medical Devices Hit By WannaCry
Last week saw a widespread attack with more than 10,000 organisations across 150 countries – including 48 NHS trusts in the UK – almost simultaneously hit by the ransomware strain WannaCry. With data encrypted, the impacted businesses and other institutions experienced significant downtime as they were unable to continue with normal operations. The hospitals, for example, were forced to postpone non-urgent procedures and people were asked not to visit Accident & Emergency. Ransomware has become … More → Continue reading WannaCry: Smaller businesses are at great risk
Effective defense against large-scale ransomware attacks such as WannaCry starts with basic endpoint protection and patch management.
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Continue reading How Basic Endpoint Patching Helps Protect Against Ransomware and Other Attacks
The WannaCry ransomware predictably dominates the discussion in our podcast this week, but that’s not the only security story that caught our eye.
Computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault are joined on the podcast this week by spec… Continue reading Smashing Security #21: WannaCry – who’s to blame?
Does one’s Dropbox “data in the cloud” also get encrypted?
Continue reading What happens if a Dropbox folder is encrypted by WannaCrypt / WannaCry?
It is not exactly clear from many news reports whether Wanna Cry ransoms are being honored. For example, a recent story in the BBC read as follows:
“A manual human operator must activate decryption,” revealed Matthew
Hi… Continue reading Are Wanna Cry ransoms being honored?
It seems they are processing it manually, but how can they verify the payment? WannaCry doesn’t provide a unique ransom bitcoin adress for each victim.
Continue reading How does WannaCrypt detect when someone pays the ransom?
WannaCrypt is a shot heard ’round the world, for sure.
I have seen news articles saying that people have paid more than $20,000 in ransoms. Here’s one from Krebs: Global ‘Wana’ Ransomware Outbreak Earned Perpetrators $26,000 So Far
But my question is: Has anybody successfully decrypted their files after paying?
Continue reading Has anybody successfully decrypted their files after paying the WannaCrypt ransom?
The best strategy to defend against the WannaCry ransomware attack and similar events is to adopt tools to prevent them from occurring in the first place.
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WannaCry continues to hit headlines, but it’s not the first piece of malware to make use of the NSA’s EternalBlue exploit Continue reading Cryptocurrency-mining malware cashes in on NSA exploit that enabled WannaCry