Ransomware
Details of CovidLock ransomware and Czech hospital infection
As the fears of Coronavirus infection spread are gripping the world at a fast pace, hackers are seen using every opportunity to dupe victims in the disguise of services and products about Covid-19; and here’s one such instance- A team of Cybersecurity researchers from DomainTools has identified that some hackers are seen promoting a mobile […]
How Municipal Governments could protect against ransomware
As more and more cases regarding Municipalities being hit by ransomware are emerging day to day, Deloitte has come up with a to-do list that could help Municipalities safeguard their IT infrastructure from ransomware attacks. And they are as follows- Keeping data in the dispersed form is a great move as it disallows ransomware […]
Ransomware shuts down Australian wool auction and erases data of Florida Police
The Australian wool auctioning event was shut down for a week as a ransomware attack on a supplier’s main software locked out the auctioning company from carrying on the event on a further note. Secretary of National Auction Selling Committee (NASC) has confirmed the news and said that the weeks auctioning has been canceled […]
US Massachusetts Power Station reigning under Ransomware Attack
Ransomware news is out that all computers belonging to a power station located in Massachusetts were reigning under a ransomware attack and hopes of revival are bleak. However, the good news is that the officials at the power station are doing their best to clean up the database from the file-encrypting malware and have already […]
Report claims $11.5 billion loss from ransomware in 2019
A new report says that ransomware attacks quantified to $11.5 billion in damage in the year 2019 which confirms that those spreading file-encrypting malware has made some good profits for sure. According to a study made by Deep Instinct…hmm, not the Basic Instinct, hackers stayed more focused in 2019 in spreading ransomware and the loss […]
Ransomware leads to lawsuit and data concerns from NRC health
A Ransomware attack launched on New Jersey’s Hackensack Meridian Health on December 2nd, 2019 reportedly led to the disruption in services at 17 urgent care centers, hospitals, and nursing homes. At that time the hospital authorities paid an undisclosed sum to the hackers to retrieve encrypted files to normalcy and announced that there was no […]
Ransomware attack on ISS World
ISS World, a Denmark based company that is into catering, cleaning and security business is reported to have become a victim of a ransomware cyberattack. The company’s website has been inaccessible since Feb 17th of this week and the management at the London’s Surrey, Canary Wharf and Weybridge offices consisting of 43,000 staff members are […]
Ransomware data recovery on Amazon Cloud
Ransomware attacks have become a menace to companies and so Cloudian in association with Veeam has built an Object Storage on Amazon S3 Cloud platform to help companies combat ransomware attacks. The usage framework is simple to understand- When a file-encrypting malware hits a database; the encrypted files can be replaced by a Veeam […]
Ransomware attack on US Gas supply
DHS has issued an advisory yesterday citing a recent ransomware attack on a natural gas supplier as an example that critical infrastructure in the United States was super-vulnerable to cyber attacks. The security advisory has highlighted the fact that companies should take the incident as a wake-up call and take all necessary measures to prevent […]
US healthcare industry incurred damage of $150 M from Ransomware
A study concluded by Tech research firm Comparitech has confirmed that the damage caused by the US Healthcare Industry due to ransomware is estimated to be around $157 million since 2016. However, the research also highlighted the fact from the study that actual ransom demands only accounted for 11% of the total share which comes […]
