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Flash Player exploit -> Angler -> CryptXXX

John Leyden heralds a post apparently due to appear on the Malwarebytes site later today (25th May 2016) about a wave of malvertising exploiting the Flash Player exploit (CVE-2016-4117) recently...

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Ranscam: paying up won’t get your files back

Whenever I think that the various criminals behind ransomware can’t sink any lower, someone comes along and proves me wrong. Edmund Brumaghin and Warren Mercer in a post for Talos describe a...

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If it’s encrypting, perhaps it’s ransomware

Researchers from the University of Florida and Villanova University suggest that ransomware can be mitigated by detecting its encrypting files early in the process: CryptoLock (and Drop It): Stopping...

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Ransomware: F-Secure looks at the ‘customer’ experience

Useful resources from F-Secure: Evaluating the Customer Journey of Crypto-Ransomware and the Paradox Behind It (Hat-tip to ESET’s Stephen Cobb for bringing it to my attention.) Infographic/comic strip...

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Thermostat Hacking – a Hot Topic

At this year’s Def Con, Andrew Tierney and Ken Munro demonstrated how they created full-blown ransomware to take control of an unnamed brand of smart thermostat ‘and lock the user out until they paid...

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Hitler Ransomware

For once, an article about Hitler that doesn’t invoke Godwin’s law… The Register’s John Leyden describes how Hitler ‘ransomware’ offers to sell you back access to your files – but just deletes them:...

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Ransomware Avalanche – WannaCryptor and Jaff

It probably hasn’t escaped your notice that there is a huge outbreak of ransomware affecting organizations pretty much worldwide. The main cause of upset is the malware ESET calls...

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AV-Test Report: malware/threat statistics

AV-Test offers an interesting aggregation of 2016/2017 malware statistics in its Security Report here. Its observations on ransomware may be of particular interest to readers of this blog (how are you...

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Tech support scams – FTC offers money back…

…well, there’s no foolproof way of doing that (getting your money back, that is), unfortunately. But Shaun Nichols reports for The Register that FTC ready to give back tech support scamming money to...

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Tech Support Scammers Target BT Customers

Well, this isn’t the first time. But a report by Kat Hall for The Register suggests that some of the scammers may have more information about potential victims than they should. Which makes me wonder...

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