Ransomware is a growing, international threat. It’s also an insidious one. The state of the art in ransomware is simple but effective. Well-organized criminal gangs hiding in safe-haven countries breach an organization, find, steal and encrypt important files. Then they present victims with the double incentive that, should they refuse to pay, their encrypted files […]
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2022
A French hospital suspended emergency operations and transferred some patients after a weekend cyber incident. The André Mignot hospital, located in Le Chesnay in the outskirts of Paris, took its network offline Saturday evening after spotting the attack, French regional health agency Agence Régionale de Santé said on Sunday. The hospital is accepting only a […]
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Our experts have discovered an attack of a new Trojan, which they’ve dubbed CryWiper. At the first glance, this malware looks like ransomware: it modifies files, adds a .CRY extension to them (unique to CryWiper), and saves a README.txt file with a ransom note, which contains the bitcoin wallet address, the contact e-mail address of […]
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