Security

A typical technical support scam works like this: 1. A user receives a phone call, claiming to come from Microsoft or your ISP, claiming that a security problem has been found on their network or computer. One trick fraudster may use to gain a less technically savvy user’s confidence by tricking them into looking for error messages in Windows Event Viewer’s logs. In fact, such entries are completely harmless and should not be considered evidence of a malware infection. 2. The scammer tricks...

The Hacked Website Trend report is a report produced by Sucuri. It summarizes the latest trends by bad actors, identifying the latest tactics, techniques, and rules (TTPs) seen by the Remediation Group (RG). This report will build on the data from the previous quarters, including updated data for 2017. The one constant you’ll find in this report is the issues pertaining to poorly managed or unmanaged websites. This report will give trends based on the CMS applications most affected by...

Victims of one the newest - and most unusual - families of ransomware could now be able to recover their files without giving into the demands of criminals because decryption tools have been released for free. A GandCrab ransomware decryption tool has been released as part of the No More Ransom initiative, following a joint operation by Bitdefender, the Romanian Police, the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) and Europol. GandGrab first appeared in January and...