Almost two months have passed since the infamous Wannacry Ransomware took its first victim and, subsequently, made its first profit. Although the infection’s spreading was halted immediately after its emergence – that is when a kill-switch was found and enabled
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Even though cyber criminals are likely to cause no physical danger, they are chased after by law enforcement institutions. On June 27, 2017, four fraudsters were taken into custody on suspicion of fraud. The foursome were arrested after a two-year
Continue reading 0 CommentsNotPetya Wiper Disguises as Ransomware
This week has been quite eventful for the cyber community, as a new massive infection swept across computer systems worldwide. Computer security experts are still baffled about how they should call this new infection, but we are going to use
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Personal computers have been cyber criminals' target for years, and malware researchers are on their mission to raise users' awareness of the possible dangers on the Internet, where hundreds and millions threats are circulating and new ones are launched every
Continue reading 0 CommentsThe British Parliament Was Hit By Sustained And Determined Cyber Attack
With more and more people connected to the Internet now, the possibilities of major cyber attacks skyrocket. It has been reported that on June 23rd, the UK Parliament has experienced an unprecedented cyber attack that targeted email accounts of hundreds
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It has been over a month since WannaCry Ransomware made headlines all over the globe. Based on different reports, it has affected from 150.000 to 300.000 computers worldwide, raking in from $60.000USD to $140.000USD in ransom payments. Now there seems
Continue reading 0 CommentsSouth Korean Web Host Pays $1m to Erebus Ransomware
Ordinary computer users usually have the idea that malicious infections are programs that attack personal computers, but that is not quite it. Keeping in mind that the main objective of cyber criminals is money, it is obvious that ordinary PCs
Continue reading 0 CommentsDecryption keys for AES_NI shared to the public by the mastermind to prevent charges related to XData ransomware
The mastermind of the AES_NI ransomware, also spelt AES-NI or AESNI, released over 300 decryption keys via a private message to a malware research under the name Thyrex in order not to be accused of being responsible for another highly
Continue reading 0 CommentsWannaCry global cyber attack that hit over 100,000 computers can be prevented
WannaCry is a ransomware infection that has affected over 100,000 organizations in at least 150 countries around the globe for the purpose of obtaining money. The WannaCry ransomware, also dubbed WannaCrypt0r or WCry, is considered to be the biggest online
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