The threat of ransomware continues to grow on a daily basis. Hackers are aware of this, and continue creating new ransomware variants to victimize new individuals. It is now clear, just the thought of being infected has become enough to pay. “Bluff” Ransomware Who would’ve predicted cyber criminals would just send the ransom note, without actually infecting […]
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Cockrell Hill Police Department Takes Massive Hit Cockrell Hill Police Department, located in Cockrell Hill, Texas, has recently lost eight years of police evidence after a ransomware attack. According to Bleeping Computer, the attack was discovered on December 12, 2016. The ransomware variant used to encrypt the police department’s data is not being disclosed. The police
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Three Strikes–You’re Out! Racing Pulse, a popular horse racing website that is based out of Bangalore, India, was forced offline on January 17, 2017 after suffering its third ransomware attack in a week. The last, and most critical, encrypted their entire site. Dharma ransomware, the variant that took down Racing Pulse, encrypted all of the website’s data. The
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Update 1/27/2017: After two days, the St. Louis City Public Library technical staff was able to fix the impacted computers. The system hard drives were wiped completely and restored with available back-ups. The St. Louis City Public Library is currently unable to offer free computer use to the community due to a ransomware attack that
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Cyber criminals have hit a new low, proving they don’t care who their victims are as long as it may lead to a large payout. According to Network World, hackers breached Indiana Cancer Services’ systems on January 10, 2017. They then encrypted a server, followed by a ransom demand of $43,000 to restore this server.
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Kanawha County Schools Struggles To Regain Access Another county school was victimized by ransomware this week. Kanawha County Schools, located in Charleston, West Virginia was hit with ransomware on January 11, 2017. As of today, January 13, 2017, the school continues to work on regaining access to their encrypted files. Officials are not reporting the
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As if our jobs as IT admins isn’t difficult enough, hackers have taken to finding misconfigured MongoDB databases, and are holding them hostage, until a ransom has been paid. Similar to traditional ransomware, where files on a computer are encrypted until a fee has been paid, databases, are being held hostage, instead. The modus operandi
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Ransomeware hit yet another medical facility. On August 30, 2016, ransomware struck the Susan M. Hughes Center, impacted both office locations. The Center is located in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania and Cherry Hill, New Jersey. This attack impacted over 11,000 patient records. However, the Center did not inform the patients of the security issue until late
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The first publicized ransomware attack of 2017 is a hefty one! After returning to school after the holiday break, Los Angeles Valley College found their computer files were inaccessible. It didn’t take long for the college to determine it was a malicious cyber attack that took down their systems. According to The Washington Times, the school notified
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2016 was deemed the year of ransomware. However, experts do not see the attacks slowing down in 2017. Throughout the year we will continue to update this list as ransomware attacks become public. January Los Angeles Community College District – California – Amount paid: $28,000 USD Kanawha County Schools – West Virginia – Did not
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