Insecure NAS Device Exposes 350 Ameriprise Investment Accounts

A trove of data belonging to Ameriprise Financial was found earlier this month that included Social Security numbers, decryption keys and confidential internal company documents. The breach is related to the use of a network attacked storage device that insecurely backed up data from an internal...

‘Popcorn Time’ Ransomware Sure to Cause Indigestion

ARCHIVED STORY ‘Popcorn Time’ Ransomware Sure to Cause Indigestion By Tim Hux · December 19, 2016 In early December the new ransomware “Popcorn Time” was discovered. It gives the victim the option of paying the ransom or infecting two other individuals and getting them to pay. “Popcorn Time” is a...

‘Popcorn Time’ Ransomware Sure to Cause Indigestion

ARCHIVED STORY ‘Popcorn Time’ Ransomware Sure to Cause Indigestion By Tim Hux · December 19, 2016 In early December the new ransomware “Popcorn Time” was discovered. It gives the victim the option of paying the ransom or infecting two other individuals and getting them to pay. “Popcorn Time” is a...

CrySis Ransomware Master Decryption Keys Released

The threat posed by a ransomware family known as CrySis was diminished considerably on Sunday when the master decryption keys were released to the public. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab said they have already folded the keys into the company’s Rakhni decryptor and victims of CrySis versions 2 and 3...

Dutch, Belgian Ransomware Wildfire Disrupted, Decryption Keys Posted

The No More Ransom initiative released decryption keys for yet another strain of ransomware this week; now victims of the mostly Dutch-leaning ransomware called WildFire can get their files back without paying attackers. According to an update from the Dutch National Police on Wednesday, when it...

Public, Private Sector Team to Fight Ransomware

Knowing where to turn for help when victimized by ransomware isn’t always clear. Should you pay the ransom? Are there alternatives to getting your precious data back? Who can you turn to for help? In an effort to answer those questions and help victims retrieve data encrypted by ransomware a uniq...

University Pays Hackers $20,000 to get back its Ransomware Infected Files

What's the worst that could happen when a Ransomware malware hits University? Last month, the IT department of the University from where I have done my graduation called me for helping them get rid of a Ransomware infection that locked down all its student's results just a day before the...

Ransomware attacks on Hospitals put Patients at Risk

Just last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI issued an urgent "Flash" message to the businesses and organisations about the threat of Samsam Ransomware, but the ransomware has already wreaked havoc on some critical infrastructure. MedStar, a non-profit group that runs 10 hospitals in t...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3478-1] libgcrypt11 security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3478-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso February 15, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Free Ransomware Decryption Tool — CoinVault and Bitcryptor

Have you been infected with the insidious CoinVault or Bitcryptor ransomware? If so, there is some potentially good news for you. You may now recover your encrypted files for FREE! – Thanks to the efforts of Dutch police and antivirus maker Kaspersky Lab. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab a...

Security of iMessage System Comes to the Fore Again

The iMessage system, like much of what Apple does, is mostly a black box. The company doesn’t talk much about how the system works, and although some security researchers found a couple years ago that Apple could read users’ encrypted messages if they so choose, law enforcement has had no luck in...

Machines Infected by Locker Ransomware Decrypted

Update: Computers infected by the Locker crypto-ransomware were today decrypted as promised by the malware’s author, who last week posted the decryption keys to an upload site and apologized for releasing the malware. Lawrence Abrams of Bleeping Computer said the infected computers were decrypted...

New Utility Decrypts Files Lost to TeslaCrypt Ransomware

Crypto-ransomware variants have enterprises on edge because of the threat of irreversibly damaged files. Some organizations, including most recently the Tewksbury, Ma., police department have gone as far as to pay hundreds of dollars in ransom for the recovery key. Some technology companies are...

Libgcrypt: Side-channel attack

Background Libgcrypt is a general purpose cryptographic library derived out of GnuPG. Description A vulnerability in the implementation of ElGamal decryption procedures of Libgcrypt leaks information to various side-channels. Impact A physical side-channel attack allows a remote attacker to fully...

CryptorBit Ransomware that scam for Ransom money with fake Decryption Keys

We are continuously keeping our eye on new variants of the widely spread Ransomware family like Cryptolocker, Prison Locker, Copycat and Locker which encrypts your files and ask for a random amount to decrypt it. If infected by such malware, to be very honest, there is no hope for recovering your...

Ransomware Variant Features Novel Payment Scheme

A new ransomware variant encrypts files on a computer but uses a novel twist on monetizing the extortion threat. Instead of demanding money directly for decryption keys, as has been the case in other instances, it presumes that the owner of an infected computer will search for information to help...

Advisory CA-2000-18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 CERT Advisory CA-2000-18 PGP May Encrypt Data With Unauthorized ADKs Original release date: August 24, 2000 Last revised: -- Source: CERT/CC A complete revision history is at the end of this file. Systems Affected PGP versions 5.5.x through 6.5.3,...