Despite a recent decline in attacks, ransomware still poses significant threats to enterprises, as the attacks against several major newspapers demonstrated this month. It is also becoming more capable. In particular, ransomware writers are aware that backups are an effective defense and are modifying their malware to track down and eliminate the backups. Ransomware down, […]
We started tracking a new method hackers use to bypass Gmail’s SPF check for spear-phishing.
Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web has registered an ongoing massive spread of the encryption malware Trojan.ArchiveLock across PCs outside Russia. The program, dubbed Trojan.ArchiveLock.20, is infecting increasingly more computers in France and Spain.Last August, Doctor Web issued a warning about Trojan.ArchiveLock encryption malware. This program uses the archiver WinRAR to encrypt files. To spread the […]
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