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Cerber Ransomware Partners with the Dridex Spam Distributor
Cerber ransomware incorporates the unusual feature of “speaking” its ransom message after successfully infecting a user machine and encrypting files. Cerber was first seen in the wild at the end of February 2016 and was observed being delivered mostly via exploit kits EK, notably using Magnitude...
Adobe Emergency Update Patches Flash Zero Day
As promised earlier this week, Adobe today released an updated version of Flash Player that includes a patch for a zero-day vulnerability. Adobe said it is aware of the existence of a public exploit for CVE-2016-4117, but said the flaw has not been publicly attacked. The vulnerability affects Fla...
IBM's Watson Supercomputer Tackles Security
IBM is leveraging the power of its Watson supercomputer to thwart viruses, ransomware and DDoS attacks. On Tuesday it unveiled an ambitious plan to feed Watson billions of data points from security sources daily so that Watson can spot anomalies as they happen and stop them dead in their tracks...
WordPress 4.5.2 Security Release
WordPress vulnerabilities continue to be a magnet for hackers laden with exploit kits, and as recently as February, crippling ransomware attacks. As a result, WordPress has already released three security updates this year, the latest for the content management system coming last Friday, bringing...
Locky Gets Clever!
As discussed in an earlier FireEye blog, we have seen Locky ransomware rise to fame in recent months. Locky is aggressively distributed via a JavaScript-based downloader sent as an attachment in spam emails, and may have overshadowed the Dridex banking Trojan as the top spam contributor. FireEye...
Bucbi Ransomware Gets Makeover
Two-year-old Bucbi ransomware is making a comeback, with new targeted attacks and a new brute force technique. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks said they spotted the ransomware recently infecting a Windows Server demanding a 5 bitcoins or $2,320 ransom. Researchers report the ransomware is no...
Locky Gets Clever!
As discussed in an earlier FireEye blog, we have seen Locky ransomware rise to fame in recent months. Locky is aggressively distributed via a JavaScript-based downloader sent as an attachment in spam emails, and may have overshadowed the Dridex banking Trojan as the top spam contributor. FireEye...
On Ransomware Hitting an Online Casino, Brazil Taking WhatsApp Offline, And More
Mike Mimoso, Chris Brook, and Threatpost’s newest reporter, Tom Spring, discuss the week in news, including a first hand account of an online casino’s experience with a Teslacrypt infection, Brazil shutting down WhatsApp, and attackers mining an ADP portal for W-2s. Download:...
Affordable AlphaLocker Ransomware Difficult to Detect
It’s rare a week goes by now without a new strain of ransomware making headlines. Researchers described one of the latest earlier this week, a relatively affordable ransomware-as-a-service named AlphaLocker. One of the main selling points to AlphaLocker is how cheap it is; the ransomware can be...
Ransomware Victims Lessons Learned
For online casinos, business begins to peak as gamblers punch out of work and belly-up to virtual blackjack tables. But on this Tuesday in February at 5p.m., the odds were not in the house’s favor. That’s when this virtual casino—with tens of millions of dollars in virtual transaction data,...
The use of ransomware Locky's vulnerability to the immune system-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net
In 2 0 0 9 years, we use the immune system to protect the workstation or server against the rapid spread of the worm Conficker invasion. Let's take a look at whether we can take this a defense of the concept used in ransomware Locky. Below we will of the system some minor modifications, to build ...
A Cyber Revolution: Advanced Attacks Increasing in EMEA Reflect Political Tension
Financial, geopolitical and economical changes made 2015 a very busy year for the Europe, Middle East and Africa EMEA region, particularly in the cyber realm. FireEye has been monitoring these shifting cyber trends and has identified considerable evolutions to the EMEA threat landscape when...
A Cyber Revolution: Advanced Attacks Increasing in EMEA Reflect Political Tension
Financial, geopolitical and economical changes made 2015 a very busy year for the Europe, Middle East and Africa EMEA region, particularly in the cyber realm. FireEye has been monitoring these shifting cyber trends and has identified considerable evolutions to the EMEA threat landscape when...
FBI Issues Ransomware Warning
The FBI has issued a warning to businesses about the relentless wave of ransomware. The bulletin includes preventative tips, and an affirmation of the bureau’s stance that companies affected by cryptoransomware attacks in particular should not succumb to temptation and pay their attackers off. Th...
CryptXXX Ransomware Spreading Via Angler Exploit Kit
In the ransomware world, it doesn’t take long for today’s darling to become yesterday’s news. Case in point: Locky. Not long ago, Locky was at the core of debilitating infections at major hospitals in California and the Washington, D.C., area, affecting not only access to patient data but also...
Ransomware Virus Shuts Down Electric and Water Utility
Ransomware has become an albatross around the neck, targeting businesses, hospitals, and personal computers worldwide and extorting Millions of Dollars. Typical Ransomware targets victim's computer encrypts files on it, and then demands a ransom -- typically about $500 in Bitcoin -- in exchange...
FBI Releases Article on Ransomware
The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article addressing the proliferation of ransomware campaigns. Ransomware is a type of malicious software that infects a computer and restricts users' access to it until a ransom is paid to unlock it. Individuals and organizations are...
New Decryptor Unlocks CryptXXX Ransomware
When exploits kits, in particular Angler, spread ransomware infections, people get nervous. The latest strain to appear in the virulent Angler kit is CryptXXX, which researchers at Proofpoint and Fox IT tied to the same group dropping old-school Reveton ransomware and Bedep click-fraud malware...
Android Ransomware Attacks Using Towelroot, Hacking Team Exploits
A menacing wave of ransomware that locks up Android devices and demands victims pay $200 in Apple iTunes gift card codes is raising concern among security researchers. The ransomware attacks, they say, open a new chapter for Android vulnerabilities similar to Microsoft’s obsolete, unpatched and...
Suspicious Sender Mail Phishing Attempt
Phishing and ransomware emails are often sent from known suspicious domains. E-mails sent from such domains might be indicative of phishing attempt, ransomware, or other attempts to compromise the network...