Security News

Why Hospitals Are the Perfect Targets for Ransomware (WIRED)
2016-03-30 18:00

New ransomware installs in boot record, encrypts hard disk (ArsTechnica)
2016-03-30 17:19

New ransomware skips files, encrypts your whole hard drive (ZDNet)
2016-03-30 11:18

New Ransomware encrypts MBR (IT Toolbox Blogs)
2016-03-30 09:15

Hospital servers in crosshairs of new ransomware strain (The Register)
2016-03-30 06:45

Two more healthcare networks caught up in outbreak of hospital ransomware (ArsTechnica)
2016-03-29 23:30

A troubling trajectory of malware and ransomware targeting OS X and iOS (TechRepublic)
2016-03-29 22:45

Petya ransomware encrypts files, disks, locks users out of computers (Help Net Security)
2016-03-29 20:01

A new type of ransomware does not only encrypt the victims’ files, but also their disk’s Master File Table (MFT), and it replaces the boot drive’s existing Master Boot Record (MBR) with a...

Researchers Learning More About Petya Ransomware (Threatpost)
2016-03-29 19:48

Researchers are digging through samples of the Petya ransomware, and while they’ve learned some about its inner workings, they still haven’t mastered enough to come up with a decryptor.

New Server-Side Ransomware Hitting Hospitals (Threatpost)
2016-03-29 19:41

Hackers are escalating recent attacks against hospitals with new stains of server-side ransomware whose most recent variants are dubbed SamSam and Maktub.