Earlier this year, the Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, New York was hit with a ransomware attack. ECMC is a level 1 trauma center, teaching hospital and regional center for a variety of medical services – including, unfortunately, ransomware. At 2 A.M. on Palm Sunday computer screens across the medical center flashed “What happened […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Fedex was one of the companies that announced last month that they were affected by the Petya un-ransomware (it operated like ransomware, but there was no decryption key, even if you paid the ransom). It is interesting that most of the time there is some sort of malware attack you do not get much information, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lately we have had the opportunity to see inside some ransomware attacks and what the cost has been to businesses. For example, I wrote about the Petya malware and what it did to the shipping giant Maersk and the law firm giant DLA Piper. Now we get to find out what happened inside a different […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After the WannaCry Ransomware affected businesses in 150 countries last month, you would think that people would have learned. Apparently not. The Petya ransomware doesn’t encrypt files, it encrypts the whole disk. Unlike typical ransomware that picks selected files (like Word or Excel files), instead this ransomware replaces the Master Boot Record or MBR and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For a long time I have said that there are multiple forms of ransomware such as: The hacker encrypts your computer and gives you the decryption key if you pay the ransom. The hacker encrypts your computer and DOES NOT give you the decryption key when you pay the ransom. The hacker PRETENDS to encrypt […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE (5/16) – Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is still reeling from the effects of WannaCry. Some say that 95% of the NHS computers are still running Windows XP, which Microsoft stopped supporting over 3 years ago and for which there was no patch to block this malware. Many people attribute the fact that these […]
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