Since August, a new ransomware named LokiLocker has been gaining traction in the cybercriminal community. By utilising a rare code obfuscation technique, cybercriminals are able to wipe files from servers remotely, allowing them to subsequently threaten and extort compliant victims. The usage of ransomware has been on the rise since the COVID-19 pandemic, only being...
Throughout 2021, the world of cyber security continued to evolve. With this, trends that existed last year in the industry have advanced and entirely new ones have formed, leading to some startling statistics. In this blog, we are going to cover five of the most interesting trends that you need to know for your organisation in 2022....
Ransomware cyber attacks are moving on from their indiscriminate wide-scale deployment in the last two years to a more targeted approach in 2018. The NCSC Advisory Report: Ongoing threat to organisations from ransomware, confirms that this type of cyber attack was previously profitable because of its economy of scale. In 2017, cyber criminals were successful by...
Last year may well be remembered as the year that the ransomware cyber attack came of age. Against a background of high profile attacks reported by the National Health Service, FedEx, and Telefonica, Kaspersky has confirmed that the number of ransomware attacks on businesses tripled in the year, jumping from one attack every two minutes in Q1...
A new strain of the Petya ransomware started propagating on June 27, 2017, infecting many organizations. Similar to Wannacry, Petya uses the Eternal Blue exploit. After thousands of infections, the new Petya ransomware has run into its first major problem, as a German email provider has blocked the email account the virus was using to manage ransom...
By now you’ve surely heard of ransomware and most people with speak with have been a victim of a ransom attack or know another company that has been breached. This type of cyber attack is when “cyber kidnappers” take your computer or network hostage and infect a computer or computer system with a virus that locks all the...
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