A modification of the Petya ransomware is making the rounds today, and our threat labs shares information on the background of this variant, how it's infecting machines (the same exploit as WannaCry) and how to stay safe.
We've blocked ~12,000 malware attacks today utilizing this exploit and...
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We use various OS such as Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8 in our office. In the beginning there's no networking problem, Windows XP can access to higher Windows, and Windows 7/8 can access Windows XP. Everything's fine until installing windows update MS17-010 on last Monday for...
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I'm trying to understand the nature of virus/malware/ransomware to better apply my backup strategies. So here are some questions I have:
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Lets say I have 2 internal hard drives connected to my PC. One with Windows10 installed and the other one with Linux installed. I use...
Original release date: May 12, 2017 | Last revised: May 13, 2017
Systems Affected
Microsoft Windows operating systems
Overview
According to numerous open-source reports, a widespread ransomware campaign is affecting various organizations with reports of tens of thousands of infections in as...
Microsoft solution available to protect additional products
Today many of our customers around the world and the critical systems they depend on were victims of malicious “WannaCrypt” software. Seeing businesses and individuals affected by cyberattacks, such as the ones reported today, was...
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Cybersecurity threats both new and known, from Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), to the Internet of Things (IoT), to the shortage of cyberworkers, threaten us each day. To help protect ourselves and our customers, we mobilize threat intelligence and machine learning, a mindset of “assume...
Here's is a free software for ransomware......read the full article.
RansomFree is the free program that protects your PC against ransomware
Here's the link to the software....
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Original release date: December 01, 2016
Systems Affected
Microsoft Windows
Overview
“Avalanche” refers to a large global network hosting infrastructure used by cyber criminals to conduct phishing and malware distribution campaigns and money mule schemes. The United States Department of...
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Ransomware is one of the latest malware threats that is attracting an increasing number of cyber-criminals who are looking to profit from it. In fact, in the last 12 months, the number of ransomware variants have more than doubled. Its premise is deceptively simple: infect users’ devices, and...
don't get suckered into the imitation software … always go directly to the source … in this case www.malwarebytes.com .
yep, another new ransomware variant is making the rounds … trying to pass itself off as legitimate software. supposedly the filename is...
One of the newer players in ransomware called Cerber apparently has a flaw in it's decryption mechanism, so if you get hit with this malware there is a tool to decrypt your data available. Check Point Software Technologies: Network Security, Firewalls, and Threat Prevention Solutions
Police in The Netherlands in cooperation with Europol, Kaspersky and Intel Security, announced a new website with offers help to victims of ransomware and with advice to protect your system against it.
Here it is: The No More Ransom Project
I hope it helps
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Hi I'm not a expert on these things, but I found this while searching. Don't know if it's any good, but thought I would post it here and get thoughts;) of the members here!
Move delete or what ever is appropriate.
BadBlock encrypts System Files. Decryptor Released by Emsisoft
we have about seven computers all running some version of windows from xp to 10. So's I can move files between them at will I habitually share all the drives. And, of course, every time I do I run into Microsoft's warning about sharing root drives.
never worried me. but now we have this...
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Recently Bigbearjedi and I began a conversation in another thread about our beliefs on how ordinary users can stay protected in today's very difficult climate of ransomware and encryption laced infections so lets share our beliefs as we both have active businesses and tell everyone how we...
Really nice whitepaper on Cryptowall 4. It is pretty technical but still a good read.
http://www.talosintel.com/files/publications_and_presentations/papers/CryptoWall4_WhitePaper.042016.pdf
Hi! Sense we don't have a malware team here on the forum, here's some great tools you can use to clean a infected PC. I have used all of them and they get the job done. Rather then me listing the software, this link does the job for me!;);)
Please add any programs that you use and recommend. If...
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This is not a problem for me but I did not know where to post this question
Which is: When a computer is infected with Ransomware is just the C drive encrypted or do all other partitions and hard drives encrypted? I have 3 hard drives and one is external that is always connected with a total of...
There was once a time when you might only expect to pick up some malicious software on certain types of websites. It seems now, almost anywhere might expose you to such things.
I was doing something as innocent as looking for the radio frequencies used in Microwave ovens and ended up getting...
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