Security News

Statistics Say Don't Pay the Ransom; but Cleanup and Recovery Remains Costly
2018-03-27 17:04

Businesses have lost faith in the ability of traditional anti-virus products to detect and prevent ransomware. Fifty-three percent of U.S companies infected by ransomware in 2017 blamed legacy AV...

Not all who pay a ransom successfully recover their compromised data
2018-03-09 11:00

A new report by the CyberEdge Group found that 55 percent of responding organizations were compromised by ransomware in 2017, down from 61 percent in 2016. How victims responded to ransomware...

Largest Ever 1.3Tbps DDoS Attack Includes Embedded Ransom Demands
2018-03-05 14:08

On Tuesday, 27 February, three major DDoS mitigation service providers (Akamai, Cloudflare and Arbor) warned that they had seen spikes in a relatively rare form of reflection/amplification DDoS...

Week in review: DoS attacks against hard disk, ethical hacking, and the rise of ransom hacks
2018-01-22 03:31

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Norwegian health authority hacked, patient data of nearly 3 million citizens possibly compromised Hackers have...

Why Some Healthcare Entities Pay Ransoms
2018-01-17 20:48

Indiana Hospital Pays After Ransomware Attack, Citing Time Needed to Restore SystemsA recent incident involving an Indiana hospital that publicly admitted to paying a $55,000 ransom to unlock data...

US hospital paid $55,000 ransom to hackers despite having backups
2018-01-17 20:06

A US hospital has decided to pay a ransom of 4 bitcoin to regain access to some 1,400 files locked by attackers. Hancock Health, a regional hospital based in Greenfield, Indiana, said they’d...

The rise of ransom hacks, and the potential impact on your business
2018-01-16 17:00

The percentage of companies reporting financially motivated cyber attacks has doubled over the past two years, with 50% of companies experiencing a cyber attack motivated by ransom in the past...

UK shipbroker Clarksons refuses to pay hackers ransom for stolen data
2017-11-30 19:14

London-based shipbroking firm Clarksons has suffered a data breach and refuses to pay the attackers to prevent the stolen data from being publicly released. About the Clarksons data breach “Our...

Ransomware victims are paying the ransom in record numbers
2017-11-02 13:00

Intermedia examined the critical security behavioral habits of more than 1,000 office workers. Ransomware attacks continue to grow exponentially The threat of ransomware, when hackers infect...

Files Encrypted by Bad Rabbit Recoverable Without Paying Ransom
2017-10-27 18:44

Some users may be able to recover the files encrypted by the Bad Rabbit ransomware without paying the ransom, Kaspersky researchers discovered after analyzing the malware’s encryption...