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2017

Ransomware Attacks

Greenway Health Struggles to Recover After Ransomware Hit

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Ransomware, the malicious software that locks files until a payment demand is made, has recently hit Greenway Health, located in Carrollton, Georgia.  Greenway Health is an electronic health records vendor.  Total, they serve over 75,000 different healthcare facilities. The ransomware strike occurred last week; however, some of the Greenway Health users are still unable to […]

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45% of SMBs Don’t Retrieve Files After Paying Ransom Demands

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SMBs Short Changed After Meeting Cyber Criminals Demands One of the many risks ransomware victims face is, the likelihood they pay the ransom but don’t get the decryption keys to actually unlock their files.  In a recent study done by SpiceWorks, a shocking 45% of small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) are not retrieving their

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Virginia State Police Pushed Offline After Malware Attacks

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Virginia State Police Department Offline After Malware Strikes As of Wednesday night, at 8 p.m. the Virginia State Police Department was forced offline, unable to use their email communications what so ever.  This cease in online communication was due to a malware attack that brought down the email communication networks.  By noon on Thursday, the

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Two Spyware Companies, Retina-X and FlexiSpy, Fail to Notify Customers of Data Breach

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130,000 Spyware Customer Records Leaked According to Motherboard, two companies that sell spyware to direct customers, Retina-X and FlexiSpy, have suffered a major breach.  Between the two companies, it is believed over 130,000 records were compromised.  Along with customer records, company records were allegedly exposed, as well as photos and text messages acquired by Retina-X.

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Impact of Recent Chipotle Breach Remains Unknown

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Investigation into Chipotle Breach Continues On April 25, 2017, Chipotle made a public statement explaining their payment systems had been breached.  Since it is early into the investigation, the entire impact of the breach remains unknown.  According to WTKR News, this is what had been confirmed, Unauthorized activity was found within the restaurant’s network, which

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Newark City Hall Held Hostage – $30K Ransom Demanded

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Ransomware Strikes Again… This time, it was the City Hall in Newark, New Jersey.  The attack reportedly began on Friday, April 21st, and continued to spread over the weekend.  According to KnowBe4, Seth Wainer, Chief Information Officer for the City of Newark, reported, “The virus compromised our network and disrupted many services that we offer.

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Second Webroot Fail This Year — and 2017 Isn’t Even Half Over…

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Webroot Whoops… Yesterday, major issues arose for the millions of users of Webroot.  The well-known anti-virus began classifying several different Windows files as general malware, leaving critical files quarantined.  Therefore, Windows was not able to fully function.  As if that wasn’t bad enough, ZDNet reports, “Many independent tweets confirmed that several major websites, including Bloomberg

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Erie County Medical Systems Remain Down Almost Two Weeks After Attack

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Erie County Medical Center Remains Down 13 Days After Attack Erie County Medical Center, located in Buffalo, New York was recently hit with a virus, leaving its systems down for the last 13 days.  Although the medical facility has yet to confirm the virus was ransomware, Buffalo News made reports, that is indeed the case.

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