Ransomware Volumes Hit Record Highs as 2021 Wears On

Ransomware has seen a significant uptick so far in 2021, with global attack volume increasing by 151 percent for the first six months of the year as compared with the year-ago half. Meanwhile, the FBI has warned that there are now 100 different strains circulating around the world. From a...

Six Hundred Million Reasons to Celebrate: No More Ransom Turns FOUR!!

ARCHIVED STORY Six Hundred Million Reasons to Celebrate: No More Ransom Turns FOUR!! By John Fokker · July 27, 2020 Happy Birthday! Today we mark the fourth anniversary of the NoMoreRansom initiative with over 4.2 million visitors, from 188 countries, stopping an estimated $632 million in ransom...

Six Hundred Million Reasons to Celebrate: No More Ransom Turns FOUR!!

ARCHIVED STORY Six Hundred Million Reasons to Celebrate: No More Ransom Turns FOUR!! By John Fokker · July 27, 2020 Happy Birthday! Today we mark the fourth anniversary of the NoMoreRansom initiative with over 4.2 million visitors, from 188 countries, stopping an estimated $632 million in ransom...

Department of Commerce Report on the Botnet Threat

Last month, the US Department of Commerce released a report on the threat of botnets and what to do about it. I note that it explicitly said that the IoT makes the threat worse, and that the solutions are largely economic. The Departments determined that the opportunities and challenges in workin...