Ransomware News

CERT-In, the government's technology arm which guards against cyber attacks, issued an advisory regarding "Akira", a computer malware targets Windows and Linux-based systems.

A concerted large hacking campaign, which began two weeks ago, has hit major universities and state and local governments across the US.

Meta took down a network of about 900 fake accounts on Instagram and Facebook operated from China by an unknown entity.

Safdarjung Hospital has reported cyber-attack 11 days after AIIMS server went down and attacked with ransomware. 

A team from NIC has informed that this may be a ransomware attack and is being investigated by appropriate law enforcement authorities

SpiceJet faced a ransomware attack on May 25 Hundreds of SpiceJet airlines passengers were stranded at various airports Passengers stuck at airports raised concerns over the delay

Finalsite provides school districts with website design, hosting and content management solutions. The company said that they continue to restore more websites and core functionality every hour. At least 8,000 schools globally, hosted by Finalsite, discovered that they were no longer accessible or displayed errors.

Cryptocurrency will continue to fuel cybercrimes such as ransomware and malicious cryptomining, and the trend will continue until global cryptocurrencies are better regulated, according to researchers from global cyber security firm Sophos.

Employees should be educated on how to send and receive emails safely. Employees should have access to passwordless authentication methods. Employees must be taught the value of using secure connections like HTTPS.

The incident is one of the most disruptive digital ransom operations ever reported The incident has drawn attention to how vulnerable US energy infrastructure is to hackers A prolonged shutdown of the line would cause prices to spike at gasoline pumps

India registered the seventh highest malware encounter rate across the region, at 5.89 per cent in the past year. This was 1.1 times higher than the regional average. The report also found that India recorded the third highest ransomware encounter rate across the region.

This is the second Mac malware discovered by K7 Computing, a global cybersecurity firm, after the fileless Trojan identified last December.

Spear phishing is widespread with 43 per cent of organizations being the victim of a spear-phishing attack in the past 12 months.

The new protection capabilities include email encryption, ransomware detection and recovery and files restore features.

Cybercrime losses are greater in richer countries; however, the countries with the greatest losses are mid-tier nations.

The West Bengal government is planning to introduce the blockchain technology to protect its documents from cyber attacks.

According to "SophosLabs 2018 Malware Forecast" by global network and endpoint security leader Sophos, two types of Android attack methods are emerging -- locking the phone without encrypting data and locking the phone while encrypting the data. 

Locky ransomware`s re-emergence with new email distribution campaign has been touted as one of the largest malware campaigns in the latter half of 2017, the media reported.

Marcus Hutchins, known by the alias "Malwaretech," was charged in an indictment dated July 12 and unsealed by federal authorities in Wisconsin.  

As per the information reported to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERTIn), a total of 65 incidents involving ransomware were reported between 2014 and 2017 till June, he said in the Lok Sabha.