July 2017 • Page 2 of 4 • PC Matic Blog

Ransomware Investigation Discovered Bigger Issues

Kayla Elliott / July 24, 2017

Breach discovered during ransomware investigation… The Peachtree Neurological Clinic, located in Atlanta, Georgia was hit with ransomware. The clinic is not disclosing when the attack took place. However, they did report not paying the ransom demand and restoring the files internally. Although, throughout the investigation and remediation process, the medical facility learned of a security breach. […]

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Whitelisting Makes Headlines Again…

Kayla Elliott / July 20, 2017

Application Whitelisting — The Future of Cyber Security After the recent global attacks, WannaCry and NotPetya, application whitelisting has made its way into the news as the future of cyber security. First, CSO Online featured a piece on dynamic whitelisting capabilities. Maria Korolov, the author of the article stated, “We are in an age of

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Largest San Francisco Radio Station Still Struggling After Ransomware Hit

Kayla Elliott / July 20, 2017

Impact Still Felt, A Month After Ransomware Attack KQED, the largest radio station in San Francisco is still struggling to get back to day-to-day operations after ransomware took down their computers in mid-June. Tech Talk first reported the attack on June 17th, just two days after the ransomware hit. The station’s streaming services were pushed

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Is Your Windows Operating System Updated?

Kayla Elliott / July 19, 2017

Does Your OS Need To Be Updated? It has always been important to ensure your operating system is up to date. However, the last two global cyber attacks have shed new light on the importance of doing so. Both WannaCry and NotPetya exploited vulnerabilities within the Windows operating system, which allowed the cyber criminals to

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Cyber Security Hygiene Affects Network and Endpoint Security with Application Whitelisting

New Study Reveals Insights on Cyber Security

Kayla Elliott / July 18, 2017

Are Cyber Security Operations More Difficult Now? A new study shared by CSO Online, reported over 70% of IT pros and cyber security experts believe cyber security operations are more difficult now than they were two years ago. Although this may not be surprising to some, others may find it debatable. Ransomware has taken the

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Three Michigan Medical Facilities Corrupted by Ransomware

Kayla Elliott / July 18, 2017

Caro Medical Facilities Paralyzed by Ransomware Three medical facilities, all tied to the Caro Community Hospital were infected with ransomware on July 5, 2017. According to WNEM, the Caro Community Hospital, Caro Medical Clinic and the Caro Quick Care were impacted by the ransomware that hit the Caro Community Hospital’s database. Once aware of the attack,

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Russian Hackers Breach UK Power Grid

Kayla Elliott / July 17, 2017

Russian Hackers Believed to Cause Major Threat It is believed, Russian hackers are behind the recent breach of the UK national power grid. Although, no outages were reported, there are major concerns the hackers took critical information to implement a future attack. Without knowing what information, if any, was taken, it is difficult to determine

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Canadian Firm Pays $425K in Ransom Demands

Kayla Elliott / July 14, 2017

Cyber Criminals Take Down Canadian Company Last weekend, and unnamed Canadian firm was hit with ransomware. IT World Canada reported, the ransomware was able to infiltrate the system by worming its way through vulnerabilities found in the company’s Windows operating system. The malicious software took down the company’s databases and wiped out all of their

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Avoid these Deceptive Malware Tricks

PC Matic Malware Research / July 12, 2017

Of course having PC Matic and PC Matic SuperShield installed will help stop threats in their tracks. Nonetheless, it is important to be educated in order to help avoid problems and PC Pitstop also believes in providing our customers with not just a quality anti-malware solution, but training as well. Let’s take a look at

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LeakerLocker Ransomware Takes Different Approach

Kayla Elliott / July 12, 2017

LeakerLocker Doesn’t Encrypt… The new ransomware, LeakerLocker, is taking a different approach to exploiting their victims. Instead of targeting PCs, LeakerLocker focuses on smart phones. Within the device, they then create an unauthorized copy of the user’s pictures, videos and browsing history. They then, threaten to share all of this information with every person in

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