Ransomware
Sacramento Transit website hit by Ransomware Cyber Attack!
Last weekend, the Sacramento Regional Transit District website was targeted with Ransomware disrupting the schedules of bus and light rail passengers. The authorities immediately apologized for the inconvenience caused to the transit users via Twitter and said that no personal data was compromised in the attack. However, Wendy Williams, a spokesperson from the Transit department […]
Global Ransomware damage costs predicted to exceed $11.5 billion by 2019!
The costs incurred from global ransomware damage are predicted to exceed $11.5 million annually by 2019. And this forecast was given by Washington based firm Cybersecurity Ventures, which researches and reports on cybercrime costs, the market size of cybersecurity market and its spending forecasts. In the official 2017 Ransomware Report, announced early this week by […]
North Korea uses Fall Chill malware to cyber attack US Government!
The Government of United States has issued a public statement saying that “FallChill” malware is being used by North Korea to cyber attack critical infrastructure of United States. The statement is actually meant to be an alert jointly issued by FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In June this year, DHS already issued a […]
Ordinypt malware targeting Germany companies is a wiper disguised as ransomware
Researchers from G data Security have found evidence that a new variant of ransomware called Ordinypt was found targeting German companies via email phishing. They also came to a conclusion that the said malware was actually a wiper disguised as ransomware. Karsten Hahn, a senior researcher at G Data claims that the ransomware was targeting […]
Ransomware hits the servers of the City of Spring Hill!
The City of Spring Hill has announced on an official note that their servers were hit by ransomware severely impacting their email and payments systems. And as a result of this attack, the authorities of the said government agency are unable to send and receive emails, and the digital payments made for utility services, business […]
Hackers distribute GIBON ransomware via Malspam!
Mathew Mesa, a senior researcher from Proofpoint has discovered that hackers are distributing a new variant of ransomware called GIBON through ‘Malspam’ with an attached malicious document containing macros that will download and install the malicious software onto a PC. NOTE- In the digital world, Spam is nothing but unsolicited or irrelevant emails sent to […]
SophosLabs 2018 Malware report says that no OS Platform is safe from Ransomware attacks
UK based Cyber Security firm SophosLabs has released a malware forecast report which says that no OS platform is safe from ransomware related cyber attacks. Here, readers of Cybersecurity Insiders have to notify a fact that the SophosLabs 2018 Malware Forecast report was compiled based on the data collected from Sophos customers located worldwide during […]
Survey reveals that 59% of office workers pay for ransomware cyber attacks
A survey conducted by California based company Intermedia says that 59% of office workers in US pay for ransomware attacks out of their pockets to decrypt files. And that’s due to the fact that most of them do not know how to respond to the malware infection and how to proceed after an attack has […]
Hackers target Japanese companies with ONI Ransomware!
A research carried out by Cybersecurity Firm Cybereason reveals that a new kind of ransomware titled ONI is targeting companies operating in Japan these days. Furthermore, the research says that the attack stands out from previous ransomware variants. As it not only prevents systems from functioning normally until the victim pays a ransom but also […]
The surge in Cyber Attacks is proportional to the salary of Ransomware Developer!
Cyber Security Firm Carbon Black has come up with a report which states that Ransomware developers are getting a pay equivalent to software developers and that’s also encouraging the cyber crooks in launching more cyber attacks. The report also involves the greater ransomware industry as a whole, which now involves billions of dollars of financial […]
