Scarab Ransomware Explodes Worldwide A new ransomware variant, deemed Scarab, began taking the world by storm earlier this month. The new variant was first discovered on November 23, 2017. Since being discovered, it is believed the ransomware was sent to over 12,500,000 different email accounts. The emails distributed included the ransomware in a .zip file, […]
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Millions of Files Deleted After Ransomware Hit On the evening of November 18, 2017, the Sacramento Regional Transit systems were hit with ransomware. The initial red flag was when the hackers defaced the Sacramento Regional Transit website. According to the Sacramento Bee, when visitors would attempt to access the website, they would instead get a
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Ransomware Damages Projected to Skyrocket With 2017 coming to an end, the final ransomware damages are being released. This year alone, ransomware damages are projected to total $5 billion. This includes not only the ransom demands paid, but also the company downtime, remediation efforts, loss in productivity, investigation costs and reputation damages. One would almost
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J. Sterling Morton High School Targeted Victim of Ransomware J. Sterling Morton High School, located in Cicero, Illinois has been the victim of a targeted ransomware attack. The ransomware is being delivered through a student survey specifically designed for J. Sterling Morton high school students. As seen below, the survey is poorly designed, but students
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Ransomware Strikes Spring Hill, Tennessee The City of Spring Hill was hit with an unknown ransomware variant last Friday. After encrypting the city’s files, the hackers demanded $250,000 to restore the systems. City officials reported they contacted the appropriate law enforcement and chose not to pay the ransom. Instead they are going to restore the
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Hackers Breach Kansas Non-Profit Center, Locking Files for Ransom Cyber criminals were able to breach Kansas non-profit facility, East Central Kansas Area Agency on Aging of Ottawa, Kansas. The hack occurred in September and took a full two months to fully investigate. The hackers were able to execute a successful breach of the non-profit agency, which
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Hackers Demand $30,000 or Else… Ransomware, or malicious software that locks data and demands a payment to unlock it, isn’t something uncommon. Unfortunately, ransomware has become one of today’s largest cyber security threats. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that yet another ransomware attack has hit Canadian college, University of Fraser Valley. Although, these
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City’s Internal Systems Taken Offline After Cyber Attack The City of Englewood, a metropolitan area of the Denver-Aurora Colorado area, was hit with ransomware on October 3rd. Once officials determined the systems had been compromised, they were taken offline in an attempt to prevent the ransomware from spreading. The infection impacted all of the city’s
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Locky Encrypts Files Leaving a .Ykcol Extension A new Locky variant has been released into the wild and upon initial review it led researchers to a believe it was a new strain entirely, called Ykcol. However, after additional review, experts have confirmed Ykcol is another version of Locky. The email subject line has been confirmed
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Arkansas Medical Facility Faces Potential Breach After Ransomware Attack An estimated 128,000 patient files may have been compromised as a result of being the victim of a ransomware hit. In July, the Arkansas Oral Facial Surgery Center in Fayetteville was struck with ransomware. Although the malicious attack was identified promptly, there were still patient files, x-ray
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