May 19, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
The worst kind of malware at the moment are the ransomware variants – Kryptolocker, Locky, Teslacrypt etc. – an infection from this type of malware will leave you with your files locked up and a demand for money on your computer screen. That’s a bad...
May 19, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
Have you been infected by one of the new variants (v3 or v4) of the notorious TeslaCrypt ransomware? If your encrypted files had the extensions .xxx, .ttt, .micro, .mp3 or were left unchanged, then ESET has good news for you: they have a decryptor for TeslaCrypt. They...
May 19, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
Popular restaurant chain Noodles & Company is reportedly investigating a possible credit card breach. Asked to comment on the reports, Broomfield, Colo.-based Noodles & Company issued the following statement: “We are currently investigating some unusual...
May 18, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
By Ondrej Kubovič Just recently we reported on various ransomware types that failed in their malicious intentions. Some were cracked by security experts due to poor implementation, while others flopped because the decryption key had been ‘left’ on the victims’...
May 17, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
Today f-secure is reporting that another locky payload server has been hacked. The malicious payload has been replaced with an image that warns not to click on email attachments – although the hacker uses the term ’emails attachment’ – so...
