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Ransomware: Understanding and avoiding it

Data Breach, Encryption, Malware, Phishing, Ransomware, Security Awareness, Social Engineering / By Trevor Hawthorn

Ransomware has come back into the spotlight, with a Krebs on Security report highlighting a recent attack targeting Linux Web servers—in addition to consumers and business users. Though ransomware itself isn’t anything new, this approach is unique in that after […]

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Chimera changes the ransomware game

Botnet, Data Breach, Data Protection, Ransomware, Security Awareness, Social Engineering / By Kieran Laffan

Ransomware is nothing new. The first known ransomware surfaced in 1989. However, it took the Internet revolution along with automated online payment systems before organized cyber gangs saw that ransomware could become a giant cash cow. We’re talking big money

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