by Lyndsey Creamer | Oct 14, 2020 | Cyber Security, Government, Hacking, Malware, Microsoft, Ransomware
Microsoft disrupted Trickbot, a ‘prolific’ ransomware distributor and election security threat Microsoft announced Monday that it used a court order and technical collaboration with telecommunications providers to disrupt Trickbot, a ransomware distributor that could...
by Lyndsey Creamer | Oct 2, 2020 | Cyber Security, Hacking, IoT, New Technology, Ransomware
When Coffee Machines Demand Ransom, You Know IoT Is Screwed WITH THE NAME Smarter, you might expect a maker of network-connected kitchen appliances to be, well, smarter than companies selling conventional appliances. But in the case of the Smarter internet-of-things...
by Lyndsey Creamer | Sep 18, 2020 | Cyber Security, Hacking, Healthcare, Malware, Phising, Ransomware
German hospital hacked, patient taken to another city dies German authorities said Thursday that what appears to have been a misdirected hacker attack caused the failure of IT systems at a major hospital in Duesseldorf, and a woman who needed urgent admission died...
by Lyndsey Creamer | Aug 10, 2020 | Cyber Security, Hacking, internet, Malware, Phising, Ransomware
Fraudsters Conducting Malvertising Campaign Via Inactive Domains A number of inactive websites have been compromised and are redirecting visitors to unwanted URLs, many of which are malicious. This is according to a new study by Kaspersky, which uncovered over 1000...
by Lyndsey Creamer | Aug 3, 2020 | Cyber Security, Hacking, Ransomware
'Payment sent' - travel giant CWT pays $4.5 million ransom to cyber criminals LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. travel management firm CWT paid $4.5 million this week to hackers who stole reams of sensitive corporate files and said they had knocked 30,000 computers offline,...
by Lyndsey Creamer | Jul 16, 2020 | Bitcoin, Cyber Security, Hacking, Ransomware
Online Attack Targets V.I.P. Twitter Users in a Bitcoin Scam It was about 4 in the afternoon on Wednesday on the East Coast when chaos struck online. Dozens of the biggest names in America — including Joseph R. Biden Jr., Barack Obama, Kanye West, Bill Gates and Elon...
