Researchers dissect an email from an attacker asking people to help install ransomware on their company’s network for a cut of the profit. But while this campaign isn’t very successful, it shows how appealing ransomware has become.
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[This post was created with help from Jesse La Grew, one of our SANS.edu undergraduate student interns] In November, an accountant working for a construction company received an innocent enough-looking email: An update on the terms to submit bills to a local county. Seeing the email, the accountant clicked on the link and quickly downloaded […]
Taiwanese networking equipment company Zyxel is warning customers of an ongoing attack targeting a “small subset” of its security products such as firewall and VPN servers. Attributing the attacks to a “sophisticated threat actor,” the firm noted that the attacks single out appliances that have remote management or SSL VPN enabled, namely in the USG/ZyWALL, […]
Podcast: Nothing, says a ransomware negotiator who has tips on staying out of the sad subset of victims left in the lurch, mid-negotiation, after REvil’s servers went up in smoke. Source: Read More (Threatpost)