The Johannesburg-Lewiston Area Schools (JLAS) succumbed to a cyberthreat as Katy Xenakis-Makowski—the school’s superintendent realized that they were hit by the latest ransomware threat. A ransom demand soon followed for…
More updates have come on the ransomware attack on Johannesburg-Lewiston Area Schools (JLAS). According to Katy Xenakis-Makowski—the school’s superintendent—, data related to the staff or students was not compromised. This…
In the mid of July 2018, the Mat-Su (Alaska) management went on to discover an anomaly in their network. The IT department from Mat-Su Borough chanced upon a malicious piece…
The last week of July was proceeding peacefully for the staff of Valdez City when suddenly a cyberthreat rose to threaten the entire network. Elke Doom, the City Manager, realized…
The City of Valdez did not agree to pay bitcoins for ransomware removal without a reason. While contemplating the decision, the management came to know that the data from the…
In the second week of 10th September 2018, the municipal employees belonging to Mekinac—the Canadian region between Quebec City and Montreal—were in for a major shock. As they arrived at…
Quebec is not the only Canadian business struggling with ransomware attacks; municipalities in Ontario are also facing the same problem. With the increase of such attacks, the electronic intelligence agency…
Cybercriminals have once again aimed at the healthcare industry; only this time the attack was not targeted towards a US hospital. The fresh breach occurred in another continent, at a…
Many of the hackers are now resorting to the conventional and older ransomware infection techniques for maximizing their collection of ransom. These findings were identified by the recent Sophos Labs…
The recent Sophos report unveiled some interesting insights about the manual techniques in ransomware campaigns. To investigate further, Sophos provided the example of SamSam Ransomware — a campaign it has…
