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Securing IT Assets By Prioritizing Protection And Remediation
As hackers get faster at weaponizing exploits for disclosed bugs, InfoSec teams need — more than ever — automated, continuous and precise IT asset inventorying, vulnerability management, threat prioritization and patch deployment. Critical vulnerabilities that linger unpatched for weeks or months...
Microsoft offers several mechanisms to protect against ransomware
The start of a new year is the perfect time to reassess your security strategy and tactics especially when looking back at the new levels of ransomwares reach and damage in 2017. Its no secret that ransomware attacks are increasing. In fact, a business is hit with ransomware every 40 seconds. If...
Bad Rabbit Ransomware – What is it and how to stay safe
Trend Micro is tracking multiple reports of ransomware infections, known as Bad Rabbit, in many countries around the world. A suspected variant of Petya, Bad Rabbit is ransomware—malicious software that infects a computer and restricts user access to the infected machine until a ransom is paid to...
Bad Rabbit: New Ransomware Attack Rapidly Spreading Across Europe
A new widespread ransomware attack is spreading like wildfire around Europe and has already affected over 200 major organisations, primarily in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and Germany, in the past few hours. Dubbed "Bad Rabbit," is reportedly a new Petya-like targeted ransomware attack against...
Mamba Ransomware Resurfaces in Brazil, Saudi Arabia
Mamba was among the first samples of ransomware that encrypted hard drives rather than files that was detected in public attacks, primarily against organizations in Brazil and in a high-profile incursion against the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency last November. Researchers at...
Petya-like Ransomware Explained
TL;DR summary June 28 and beyond: A major ransomware attack started in Ukraine yesterday and has spread around the world. The ransomware, which was initially thought to be a modified Petya variant, encrypts files on infected machines and uses multiple mechanisms to both gain entry to target...
This Week in Security News
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...
This Week in Security News
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...
[Video] Ukrainian Police Seize Servers of Software Firm Linked to NotPetya Cyberattack
Ukrainian National Police has released a video showing officers raiding company of M.E.Doc accounting software makers, whose systems have been linked to outbreak of Petya NotPetya ransomware that recently infected computers of several major companies worldwide. On 4th July, masked police officers...
Thousands of Security Experts Work Together to Collectively Combat Petya / NotPetya Ransomware Attack
On Tuesday, Carbon Black’s community of security experts began working together with Carbon Black Threat Research to rapidly analyze the new ransomware family that was hitting organizations from Russia to Britain. More than 100 customers and partners communicated IOCs as the attack hit. “I heard...
Petya Ransomware Spreading Rapidly Worldwide, Just Like WannaCry
Watch out, readers! It is ransomware, another WannaCry, another wide-spread attack. The WannaCry ransomware is not dead yet and another large scale ransomware attack is making chaos worldwide, shutting down computers at corporates, power supplies, and banks across Russia, Ukraine, Spain, France,...
UCL Ransomware Linked to AdGholas Malvertising Group
A ransomware attack that closed off access to personal and shared drives at University College London last week has been linked to a malvertising campaign spreading Mole, a variant of CryptoMix ransomware. Kafeine, a white-hat who works for Proofpoint and is known for his research into exploit...
TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of June 12, 2017
“What can you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?” This was the question posed to Steve Martin’s character C.D. Bales in the 1987 movie Roxanne. In a modern take of Edmond Rostand's 1897 verse play Cyrano de Bergerac, the movie centers around C.D.’s attempt to win the love of a woman whi...
French Police Seize 6 Tor Relay Servers in WannaCry Investigation
WannaCry, the biggest ransomware attack in the history, gained prominence very rapidly in the media globally after the ransomware infected more than 300,000 computers in over 150 countries within just 72 hours. Governments, Intelligence agencies and law enforcement around the world have already...
Jaff Malware Probe Uncovers Link to Cybercrime Marketplace
An investigation into a new strain of Jaff ransomware uncovered a shared backend infrastructure between the malware and a black market bazaar selling stolen bank and credit card account information. Researchers at Heimdal Security said the cybercrime marketplace they found appeared mature, offeri...
WannaCry: What We Know
On Friday, May 12, news agencies around the world reported that a new ransomware threat was spreading rapidly. Akamai's incident response teams and researchers worked quickly to understand this new threat and how to mitigate it. This blog post is a summary of what Akamai knows at this point...
WannaCry and the Executive Order
Last week, The White House released its long awaited Executive Order EO, Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure, ironically enough during the same week we experienced the largest single ransomware attack that, by some estimates, has affected more than...
Player 3 Has Entered the Game: Say Hello to 'WannaCry'
This post was authored by Martin Lee, Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres, and Craig Williams.Executive SummaryA major ransomware attack has affected many organizations across the world reportedly including Telefonica in Spain, the National Health Service in the UK, and FedEx in the US. The malware...
Google Employees Help Thousands Of Open Source Projects Patch Critical ‘Mad Gadget Bug’
Last year Google employees took an initiative to help thousands of Open Source Projects patch a critical remote code execution vulnerability in a widely used Apache Commons Collections ACC library. Dubbed Operation Rosehub, the initiative was volunteered by some 50 Google employees, who utilized ...