Sorry, but I am not going to be very sympathetic to this law firm. Here is the story. A Rhode Island law firm, Moses Afonso Ryan, was hit with a ransomware attack. Apparently, the company did not have a plan for dealing with a ransomware attack. In general, if you have good backups and have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to NBC, the FBI projected ransomware payments to hit a billion dollars in 2016 (Note that stats seem to be hard to find, so I don’t know if the FBI thinks that number was reached). In 2015, they said the number was $24 million. That is a bit of a growth curve – 41x […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Another day, another healthcare ransomware attack. Erie County Medical Center and Terrace View long term care in Buffalo, New York have been dealing with a ransomware attack for about 10 days now. On April 9th, a Sunday, the computers got hit by what they are only calling a virus, but according to someone I talked […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ransomware, as I have said in past talks and blog posts is really nasty stuff. And it was morphing. First came vanilla ransomware. We encrypt your files, you pay the ransom, we give you the key to decrypt it (usually) and most of the time (but not always) the decryption process works as described. There […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Licking County, Ohio, population 116,000, which bills itself as the 17th largest county in the state has been thrust back into the dark ages. A ransomware attack has taken down all of the county’s computers, including 911 dispatch and, they are saying, it will be a while before things are back to normal. On Tuesday […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The hotel Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt, a 4 star hotel in the Austrian Alps, decided to pay a ransom of 1,500 Euros in bitcoin after hackers broke into the hotel’s systems and locked all the guests out of their rooms. Kind of a downside of the Internet of Things. If you can unlock your hotel room […]
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