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 ...
August 11, 2021 at 9:35 am by Mike Sanders
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 ...
March 21, 2021 at 9:35 am by Mike Sanders
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, ...
January 9, 2021 at 12:49 pm by Mike Sanders
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 ...
February 12, 2020 at 9:11 am by Mike Sanders
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 ...
July 6, 2019 at 1:08 pm by Mike Sanders
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 ...
November 27, 2018 at 3:00 pm by Mike Sanders
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. ...
May 16, 2017 at 10:00 am by Bohs Hansen
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 ...
April 30, 2017 at 9:41 am by Ron Perillo
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 ...
April 3, 2017 at 3:50 pm by Bohs Hansen
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 ...
March 28, 2017 at 12:31 am by Ashley Allen
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 ...
January 29, 2017 at 6:44 pm by Ashley Allen
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 ...
December 12, 2016 at 5:00 am by Ashley Allen
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 ...
August 9, 2016 at 11:32 am by Gareth Andrews
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 ...
June 21, 2016 at 11:40 am by Gareth Andrews
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 ...
May 25, 2016 at 12:40 am by Gareth Andrews
