If you were a victim of GandCrab ransomware – and reports say many people were last year – don’t read this. It will make your blood boil. Security Journalist Brian Krebs reports that he did some online digging, and figured out who might be behind the...
Two cities in Palm Beach County, Florida, now have experienced ransomware. More than a year separates the attacks, and the costs escalated considerably. The Village of Palm Springs, which is not getting much media attention for the ransomware attack it says it...
Healthcare and manufacturing organizations with unpatched legacy systems are still at risk from the ransomware known as WannaCry. You may think a security researcher activated a killswitch in the malware code, and that was the end of WannaCry. But HealthITSecurity...
Attendees at the May 30 Data Connectors conference in Louisville heard the 2019 update of our CEO’s “Ransomware, Inc., Shareholders Meeting.” In it, ImageQuest CEO Milton Bartley, pretending to be the head of a global criminal hacking enterprise,...
Ransomware is returning as a major IT nightmare. CNBC reports that ransomware attacks are surging, up 500% this year after a lull last year. Just ask your local accounting firm or municipality. Can you afford to have your business or organization come to a complete...
