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Gigabyte Hack Ransom Note Appears Online!
You may recall that late last week, it was confirmed that tech manufacturer Gigabyte had been subjected to a successful hacking attempt and that around 112GB of supposedly exceptionally sensitive data had been stolen from them. – Representing the latest big company to be subjected to a ‘ransomware‘ attack, at…
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Acer Gets Hacked With $50M Ransomware Demand!
Ransomware undoubtedly represents one of the most odious means of exploiting users and businesses. Put simply, the main premise behind it is that your files get encrypted with (pretty much) your only means of recovering them being to pay whatever fee the hacker (or hacking group) demands. – If you…
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Ryuk Ransomware Has Generated over $150m in Victims
Out of all the masses of viruses and malware you could accidentally install onto your PC, it’s hard to deny that for the casual consumer, and definitely businesses, Ransomware represents one of the current biggest dangers. – For those of you unfamiliar with it, unlike other malicious programs that may…
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Ransomware Up 41% in 2019 With Huge Payment Spikes Too!
The internet can be a dangerous place and that is perhaps best demonstrated in the rapid and alarming growth of ‘ransomware‘ within the last 5 years. For those of you unaware of what it is, let me give you a brief rundown. Essentially, a file is downloaded and opened on…
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UK Forensics Firm Confirm Paying Cyber-Attack Ransom
Forensics Firm Confirm Ransomware Payment In 2017 we saw a huge rise in the number of ransomware attacks. If you’re not aware of that these are, basically it’s malware that gets onto your system (usually via an e-mail attachment you downloaded) that effectively encrypts all of your documents. The next…
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Nearly Half Of IT Directors Admit They Would Pay A Ransom
Half Of IT Directors Admit They Would Pay A Ransom You may recall back in 2017 how the Wannacry malware virus had a huge impact on systems around the world. The virus proved to be one of the most successful in recent years with many low and high-level companies affected in…
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Hackers Hold 5th Pirates of the Caribbean for Ransom
Hackers have gotten their hands on the latest Disney movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, and threaten to release it unless they’re paid a ransom. This is the fifth movie in the franchise and hackers are demanding “an enormous amount of money to be paid to…
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Hacker Leaks “Orange is the New Black” Season 5
A hacker who has threatened to release the upcoming season 5 episodes of the NetFlix show Orange is the New Black has made good with his promise and released it via torrent websites. Going by the username “thedarkoverlord” the hacker has leaked the first 10 episodes worth 11.46 GB in…
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IBM Says The State of Network Security is Abysmal
The state of online security is at a new low according to IBM Security’s 2017 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index. Cyber criminals are starting to grab unstructured data, spam has rebloomed 400%, and ransomware has gone nuts too. With the rise in pure numbers of available connected devices along with…
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Over 700 Million iCloud Accounts Compromised in Fresh Attack
A massive breach of Apple cloud storage service has compromised more than 700 million accounts. The fresh attack on iCloud has resulted in the unprecedented leak details from up to 717 million users. As proof, those responsible have publicly posted details of a handful of accounts (which we will not…
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Hotel Ransomed After Hackers Lock Guests’ Rooms
A four-star hotel in Austria was forced to pay ransom worth thousands of Bitcoins after hackers took control of its electronic locking system, preventing guests from either leaving or entering their rooms. The renowned Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt, positioned at the foot of the Alps, revealed details of the theft to…
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Unlock New Ransomware by Infecting Your Friends
A new ransomware is offering infected users the chance to regain access to their locked computers without paying by sending the malicious software to infect other people’s systems. If the malware is successful in infecting two of your contacts, you get a free encryption key in return. Popcorn Time –…
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Security Team Prove That Your Monitor Can Be Hacked at DefCon!
Cyber security awareness is at an all-time high, with governments and organisations investigating and researching both new ways to monitor users and bypass security features while some are still looking at reinforcing and creating new methods to protect people from nefarious hackers. Two such people as Ang Cui and Jatin…
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Latest Ransomware Now Hidden Within Javascript
When it comes to viruses Ransomware is particularly nasty. With thousands of users being affected by the latest in cyber crime, it often costs people hundreds to gain access to their family photos and legal documents all thanks to the newest of malware. It would now seem that ransomware creators are…
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Hackers Demand Second Ransom From Hospital But Get Nothing
When it comes to ransomware, there are no lengths that people won’t go to get a little bit of money. While ransomware has been around everyday systems for a while, it is becoming an increasingly worrying trend that groups employing ransomware have targeted large organisations or even hospitals. The idea…
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