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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.... Link Removed

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...

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 Henk

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...

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...

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...

Original release date: April 09, 2015 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, and 8 Microsoft Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, and Server 2012 Overview AAEH is a family of polymorphic downloaders created with the primary purpose of downloading other...

Original release date: October 22, 2014 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows Overview Ransomware is a type of malicious software (malware) that infects a computer and restricts access to it until a ransom is paid to unlock it. This Alert is the result of Canadian Cyber Incident Response...

Security vendors FireEye and Fox IT have launched a Web tool which allows victims of Cryptolocker Malware attacks to decrypt files without paying ransom to cybercriminals. Cryptolocker is Windows-based ransomware which relies on disguise to infect systems and encrypt files, demanding a payment...

Today we’re publishing the Link Removed. We answered 17 questions in total, with the majority of questions focusing on the Graphics Component bulletin (MS13-096), Security Advisory 2915720 and Security Advisory 2905247. We also wanted to note a new blog on the Microsoft Security Blog site on...

Original release date: November 05, 2013 | Last revised: November 06, 2013 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows systems running Windows 7, Vista, and XP operating systems Overview US-CERT is aware of a malware campaign that surfaced in 2013 and is associated with an increasing number of...