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No, it isn’t just the big business that’s hit by cyber-attacks. It isn’t just the enterprise that’s staring down the barrel of the cyber threat. It’s everyone. Actually, right now it’s especially the small to medium enterprise (SME) because they aren’t paying attention. While the banks and the governments and the enterprises packed with…
Just as we were all recovering from ‘WannaCry’ the world got hit with yet another ransomware attack, ‘Petya’. Petya is a crypto-ransomware, which means it doesn’t just lock systems but also encrypts their files and it targets Microsoft Windows-based systems, which overwrites a Windows computer master boot record to execute a payload that encrypts the…
May 2017 saw the WannaCry ransomware infected thousands of computers around the world. It hit 150 countries, from the UK to the USA, and encrypted specific file types that cannot be accessed without a file key and a paid-up ransom. It’s a reality security pundits have predicted for a very long time, and one that…
WannaCry (aka WanaCrypt0r 2.0) recently forced more than 220,000 systems worldwide to shut down, and experts urge caution that the wave isn’t over yet. The worm is using Microsoft vulnerabilities to attack systems, and once infected it follows the typical Ransomware steps; a system is encrypted, held to ransom and within 48 hours money is…
