A week ago Mumbai-based freelance designer Vaibhav Agrawal found something somewhat strange on his computer. Data, the only one in that folder, in some way had a different name. So when he tried to run it, an error message popped up. This individual uncovered that this occurred with almost all the JPEG, PDF and textual […]
Health centers, Educational Departments, state governments, law authorization organizations, small organizations, MNC’s—these are only a fraction of the entities affected as of late by ransomware, a type of malware that encrypts, or locks, valuable digital files and demands a ransom to release them. Thus it can be stated that Ransomware is a kind of intelligent […]
“Computers operated by Barts Health NHS Trust, which is one of the most significant NHS trusts in the United Kingdom and is the owner of several UK hospitals, were infected with ransomware and several thousands of documents were compromised. ” The trust continues running windows XP on its computer system, and based on reviews, there […]
Inside a new twist that plays on the long-time battle between ISPs and spam operators, a security researcher found a new malware campaign sending email messages that masquerade as INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER complaints claiming recipients’ computer systems have been detected mailing spam. The campaign affects to victims with the Locky ransomware via weaponized email attachments […]
Nowadays we know very well, the power of social media and hackers using Facebook’s instant messaging (IM) feature to spread malicious malware. Therefore, Don’t click any .svg (Scalable Vector Graphics) image file delivered to your Facebook messenger because it might lock your complete system completely. Cyber-Criminals have targeted Facebook messenger to spread Locky Ransomware. Locky […]