This year alone, the FBI predicted that the total loss to ransomware will reach a whopping US$1 billion. The ransomware business is booming, encouraging cybercriminals to expand their target base—from consumers to businesses, regardless of type and size.
Read MorePerpetrators behind ransomware have moved away from targeting consumers and tailored their attacks to extort small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).This business segment make potentially good targets for ransomware since small businesses are less likely to have the sophisticated solutions that enterprises have. And at the same time, the owners often have the capacity to pay….
Read MoreAdobe may have already patched a Flash Player vulnerability last week, but several users—especially those in the US, Canada, and the UK —are still currently exposed and are at risk of getting infected with CryptoWall 3.0. The Magnitude Exploit Kit included an exploit, detected as SWF_EXPLOIT.MJTE, for the said vulnerability, allowing attackers to spread crypto-ransomware into…
Read MoreCrypto-ransomware is once again upping the ante with its routines. We came across one crypto-ransomware variant that’s combined with spyware—a first for crypto-ransomware. This development just comes at the heels of the discovery that ransomware has included file infection to its routines. CryptoWall 3.0 We first encountered CryptoWall as the payload of spammed messages last year. We…
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