Reading Time: 3 minutes The latest, strangest new ransomware appears to come from France, or at least from French speaking cyber attackers. If your Windows PC has been successfully infected by the brand new Viro botnet ransomware, you will see this ransom note no matter where in le monde you are. Tout le monde is a possible target: Vos…

Reading Time: 6 minutes The immense wave of phishing attacks hit the users of major banks in Turkey. Poisoned emails dropped into the users’ inboxes to covertly penetrate their computers and give the attackers total control over those who would be unlucky to take the perpetrators’ bait. With sophisticated and hard-to-discover malware attached, the phishing waves spread from many…

Reading Time: 5 minutes Bloomberg Businessweek published a shocking and controversial report on October 4th. Supermicro is based in San Jose, California. Although their end product servers are designed in the United States, they make their system motherboards in China. China is indeed the world’s manufacturing powerhouse. Roughly 75% of mobile phones, 90% of PCs, and 100% of my…

Reading Time: 3 minutes I remember a little while back, the year was 2011. Those were the last of my consumer Windows tech support days before I specialized in cybersecurity. I would buy Maximum PC magazines in print, because the “no books or magazines at your desk” rule very specifically excluded anything related to computer technology. So Psychology Today…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Recently discovered Xbash malware fits an emerging trend. It’s not just one type of malware, it’s at least four different types. It’s a worm! It’s ransomware! It’s a botnet! It’s a cryptominer! It slices and it dices, and it can be yours for four easy payments of two Bitcoins! Well, I haven’t seen infomercial-style ads…

Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s bad enough when ransomware infects an individual’s PC or smartphone. Not having access to locally stored files can really throw a wrench in the works of a person’s life. But when it comes to consumer ransomware, usually only one person is inconvenienced per infection. We know that ransomware attacks enterprise systems too. Public services…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Kim Crawley The cybersecurity industry is all abuzz over a recently discovered and very scary exploit, a new devastating Cold Boot vulnerability. Cold Boot attacks occur when sensitive data is available for cyber attackers to copy from a computer’s RAM because the machine wasn’t shut down properly, such as through an ACPI cold boot or…

Reading Time: 4 minutes All it took was one malware to form a botnet that left the domain-based internet inaccessible to many on the eastern coast of the United States and in Europe on October 21st, 2016. It was the largest cyber attack to cause internet downtime in US history. We’re coming up on the second anniversary of the…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Look out, SamSam. There’s a new ransomware in town that’s very carefully targeting enteprises and businesses. Say hello to Ryuk. In the first two weeks after its August debut, the ransomware has made their cyber attackers over $640,000 USD. By contrast, SamSam has taken about three years to make its author about $6 million USD….

Reading Time: 5 minutes The arms race between cybercriminals and cybersecurity warriors is increasing at an enormous speed. Malware authors immediately react on any detected and neutralized malware with new, more sophisticated samples to bypass the freshest antimalware products. GandCrab is a bright representative of such new-generation malware. First discovered in January 2018, this sophisticated, cunning and constantly changing…