Forget the Dark Web: Ransomware Gangs Weaponize Facebook and Twitter to Pressure Victims (Written by Jareth, for the Emsisoft blog. Republished with permission from Emsisoft) The threat of public exposure is a core part of the ransomware playbook. The more eyeballs on an incident, the greater the embarrassment, reputational damage and risk of litigation for the… Read More »
Interesting Computer News – Saturday Edition It’s Saturday, and on Saturdays, we try to do something a little different. During this past week, we saved a few articles from our daily reading to share with you. We hope you find these articles as interesting and informative as we did. Watch out for your email inbox because… Read More »
How Emsisoft Protects You from Ransomware We’ve been an Emsisoft partner for many years. And we’re proud to be affiliated with Emsisoft and the Emsisoft team. Emsisoft not only provides our members and customers with world-class malware, ransomware, and anti-virus protection, they also provide our mutual customers with friendly and timely support. In short, Emsisoft takes… Read More »
A New Password-stealing Trojan is on the Loose – Be Careful with Email Attachments Microsoft Security discovered malicious fake PDF files that download the Java-based StrRAT Trojan which can steal credentials, passwords and change file names but does not encrypt them as ransomware does. According to BGR… Stop opening PDFs attached to emails unless… Read More »
A Phishing Email Dissected Keeping You Safe! I received a phishing email and, as I always do, I immediately deleted it. Later, I gave it some thought, and I dragged it out of the deleted items folder. I decided to use it as an example for this tutorial to help you keep your identity… Read More »
An Ambitious Plan to Tackle Ransomware Faces Long Odds Faculties, hospitals, the City of Atlanta. Garmin, Acer, the Washington, DC, police. At this level no one is safe from the scourge of ransomware. Over the previous few years, skyrocketing ransom calls for and indiscriminate targeting have escalated, with no reduction in sight. In the present day, a lately… Read More »