Ransomware Attacks Blew Up 2016 Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts your data, refusing to unlock it until the payment demands are met. Unfortunately, decrypting your files can be incredibly difficult, if not impossible. Leaving few ways to fix your PC after infection. Some victims end up paying the ransom demands to get […]
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Find a list of the, publically covered, ransomware attacks in 2016 in one place… With the threat of ransomware attacks at higher levels than ever before, we thought it would be beneficial to generate a list of 2016 ransomware attacks. This list will be updated throughout the year. Please, if you hear of anything that hasn’t been posted to
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Ransomware – The Looming Threat Application Whitelisting for cyber security. Throughout the last 18 months, rarely did a day go by a company, school, government agency, or public municipality went without a ransomware infection. Since January, twelve educational institutions publicly announced being hit with ransomware, with ransom payments ranging from $28,000 to $2,900. The success
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PC Matic CEO, Rob Cheng, has always had his finger on the pulse of evolving cyber security technology. It’s what led him to found PC Pitstop in 1999, the company that later became PC Matic. His insights have always been ahead of his contemporaries. Now, PC Matic CEO Rob Cheng’s Predictions are coming true. Back
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PC Matic Webinar Series Throughout the pandemic, PC Matic has brought you an array of topics discussed in our webinar series. From advice for providers to security issues for customers, we’ve tried to cover topics for everyone. But what about cyberattacks? Let’s delve a little deeper. In the latest of these videos, we go in-depth
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Photo by Alvaro Uribe on Unsplash The Beginning The first ransomware attack, AIDS Trojan, was deployed over 30 years ago. Joseph L. Popp, a Harvard academic, is credited for this. At a World Health Organization summit in 1989, he distributed over 20,000 disks to delegates. These disks, labeled “AIDS Information – Introductory Diskettes,” would wait
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Ransomware Infects Public Schools Nationwide Throughout the month of August, several public school districts across the nation fell victim to ransomware. Here is what we know, the ransomware variants differed from attack to attack, although the most frequently used ransomware strain was Ryuk. This specific ransomware-type piggy-backs of a trojan virus. Once the trojan successfully
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Ransomware Hit Another Municipality, This Time Its the City of Washington On May 5, 2019, the city of Washington, located in Pennsylvania, became the latest municipality to be victimized by ransomware. The City’s networks were infected with an unknown ransomware variant that has left their systems down for a week post-infection. City Councilman, Joseph Manning
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The Blacklist Cannot Keep Up with New Ransomware Variants In 2016, NextGov reported 1,419 ransomware variants, compared to 2,855 in 2017. These are only the confirm malicious variants. New strains are being created every minute of every day. Therefore, knowing the exact number and exact coding of all malicious variants is impossible, which is why
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Ransomware Attacks Third South Carolina School District Over the last year, three different ransomware attacks have successfully infected three different South Carolina school districts. The first reports of Horry County Schools being riddled with ransomware came in February of 2016. That school district gained approval to pay the $8,500 ransom demand in order to restore
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