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The Ukrainian Energy Ministry has been hit by a ransomware attack – and for once it looks like this is the work of amateurs, not nation-state attackers bent on making a geopolitical point....
Money Would Have Been Better Spent on Prevention, Experts SayThe city of Atlanta's ransomware outbreak cleanup and response tab has hit $2.6 million, after a March attack froze corporate servers,...
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At RSA 2018, Bill Conner, CEO of SonicWall talks to TechRepublic about how companies can guard against malware carried by HTTPS.
During the first three months of 2018, cryptominers surged to the top of detected malware incidents, displacing ransomware as the number one threat, Comodo’s Global Malware Report Q1 2018 has...
Cryptomining malware is the top threat to watch out for 2018, according to a Q1 analysis of threats.
Ransomware that lets you play to pay...
TechRepublic's Dan Patterson and Bill Detwiler, and ZDNet's Larry Dignan discussed a recent Verizon report on the rise of ransomware, and the pros and cons of meeting attackers' demands.
At Least Eight U.S. Organizations Hit So Far This YearThe Department of Health and Human Services is warning the healthcare sector about ongoing attacks involving SamSam ransomware that have...
A new outbreak of the Quant Loader trojan is tricking vulnerable users into opening malicious attachments that bypass browser security features.