Ryuk Ransomware Attack: Rush to Attribution Misses the Point

ARCHIVED STORY Ryuk Ransomware Attack: Rush to Attribution Misses the Point By John Fokker · January 09, 2019 Senior analyst Ryan Sherstobitoff contributed to this report. During the past week, an outbreak of Ryuk ransomware that impeded newspaper printing services in the United States has garner...

Ryuk Ransomware Attack: Rush to Attribution Misses the Point

ARCHIVED STORY Ryuk Ransomware Attack: Rush to Attribution Misses the Point By John Fokker · January 09, 2019 Senior analyst Ryan Sherstobitoff contributed to this report. During the past week, an outbreak of Ryuk ransomware that impeded newspaper printing services in the United States has garner...

Ryuk ransomware attacks businesses over the holidays

While families gathered for food and merriment on Christmas Eve, most businesses slumbered. Nothing was stirring, not even a mouse—or so they thought. For those at Tribune Publishing and Data Resolution, however, a silent attack was slowly spreading through their networks, encrypting data and...

Hermes ransomware distributed to South Koreans via recent Flash zero-day

This blog post was authored by @hasherezade, Jérôme Segura and Vasilios Hioureas. At the end of January, the South Korean Emergency Response Team KrCERT published news of a Flash Player zero-day used in targeted attacks. The flaw, which exists in Flash Player 28.0.0.137 and below, was distributed...