At this point, the devastating impact ransomware can have on organizations in any industry have been witnessed the world over. Earlier this year, one hospital in Southern California was infected with Locky ransomware. The facility had to pay hackers $17,000 to get its systems back online, and this was after it declared an internal state of emergency. A few months later, t...
Managing endpoints in a retail environment poses a slew of security complications. The industry has been heavily targeted by hackers in the past year or so. Specifically, cybercriminals have leveraged difficult-to-detect point-of-sale malware such as BlackPOS (the culprit behind the infamous Target breach), AbaddonPOS, CherryPicker, CenterPOS, RawPOS a...
Military and law enforcement agencies have long benefited from the ability to wirelessly and remotely access information while on the job. However, as mobile endpoints play an increasingly central role in supplying field officers with real-time data, they may also introduce new cyberthreats. Consider, for instance, the dangers associated with a lost or stolen military Toug...
Hackers have gone after the U.S. government for a variety of purposes: to steal personally identifiable information of government employees, in an effort to pilfer trade secrets, to commit tax fraud and more. Recently, however, they sought to undercut the government by going after its lifeblood : registered voters. According to the Chicago Sun Times, hackers accessed pe...
A new strain of malware - Fantom ransomware - was discovered in late August, and it's spooking IT administrators all over the world. Here are a few things you need to know about this highly deceptive trap. Like most other forms of EDA2-based ransomware, Fantom works by creating an un AES-128 key.
It will then encrypt it using RSA, an asymmetric ...
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