The Week in Ransomware - January 3rd 2020 - Busy Holiday Season
Normally ransomware activity slows down over the December break, but this year was an exception with a quite a few interesting, and sad, stories such as FBI alerts being issued, companies being shut down, and organizations being encrypted by a variety of ransomware, and stolen data being released.
Clop Ransomware Now Kills Windows 10 Apps and 3rd Party Tools
The Clop Ransomware continues to evolve with a new and integrated process killer that targets some interesting processes belonging to Windows 10 apps, text editors, programming IDEs and languages, and office applications.
As We Approach The End Of 2019
And the culmination of a chaotic decade for phishing attacks, it’s time we begin to look forward to the email security industry challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
After Windows 10 upgrade, do these seven things immediately
You've just upgraded to the most recent version of Windows 10. Before you get back to work, use this checklist to ensure that your privacy and security settings are correct and that you've cut annoyances to a bare minimum.
Uptick Seen in ISO Email Attachments Delivering Malware
Security researchers analyzing malicious spam campaigns noticed an increase in delivering malware in disk image file formats, .ISO being the most prevalent.
Acting as an archive-like container, a disk image is typically a clone of a physical drive that can be mounted as a virtual disk to access data on it organized with the same file structure as the original.