Ransomware Disables Physical Security
Last week, multi-national physical security firm, Prosegur, lost control of its network to Ryuk Ransomware. Prosegur's worldwide IT network was reportedly shut down and its employees were sent homeRyuk is a virulent strand of ransomware wreaking havoc on businesses large and small. The attack typically starts with a broad-based Phishing
The "Unsuccessful" Attack That Still Stings
It's two weeks since a vicious ransomware attack broke out at Louisiana's Office of Motor Vehicles. Many of the OMV's systems are still down. "The ransomware attack – triggered by what officials suspect was an employee opening a sketchy link – hit several state servers including at the Office of Motor Vehicles.
Phishing with Doorbusters
With the holiday season here, remind your teams to avoid those too good to be true deals! "Fake lookalike sites attempt to impersonate legitimate online retail sites, but offer significant discounts in order to incentivize people to make a payment or enter their credit card details."These attacks start with
Dark Web Black Friday Specials
What makes retail more real than deep discounts on Black Friday and Cyber Monday? Criminals on the dark web are offering huge discounts on drugs, stolen credit cards and hacking tools for Black Friday 2019.Criminals apparently love discounts just as much as the rest of us. Unfortunately, the volume
Louisiana: State of Emergency Declared After Ransomware Attack
With over 500 servers and 1600 PCs wrecked by the attack, Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a State of Emergency to enhance the remediation efforts. "There was significant impact to where we have to go and completely restore individual PCs, rebuild them from scratch and a large number of our
Ransomware Attack Explodes for Staffing Firm
In a new move for ransomware actors, a ransomware attack has turned into a giant data breach. In a typical ransomware attack, the victim's data is locked up until the ransom is paid, but it is often not exfiltrated. Unfortunately for Allied Universal, its ransomware attackers took the next step
MSPs in the Line of Fire
When the vast majority of attacks are automated and sprayed broadly, we never want to believe WE are the real target for a hacker. Everis, one of Spain's largest Managed Service Providers, became the latest victim in the quickly expanding attacks targeting MSPs. "The ransomware encrypted files on the company's
Phished for a Raise
Not getting a raise is rough. Not getting that raise AND having your business completely compromised is even worse! "The attackers posed as their targets' Human Resources department and asked them to open an Excel spreadsheet [entitled] salary-increase-sheet-November-2019.xls."In a well-crafted attack on multiple industry verticals, hackers exploited employees'
