QNAP Owners; Get Busy Patching Or Get Busy Crying
QNAP owners have had a busy year, with a large number of patches being pushed out to protect against a variety of threats. Their work is not yet done as another wave…
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Tag: ransomware
Samba Developers Release Patch For Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2017-7494)
Last week, the development team behind Samba – popular software suite used on Linux and Unix clients and servers that uses TCP/IP protocol for file and print sharing to SMB/CIFS clients (including…
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UEFI ransomware may brick your BRIX
Be careful what you do with your BRIX as two rather unpleasant vulnerabilities were disclosed at a recent BlackHat event. Gigabyte did not implement two security features which these exploits take advantage…
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Stop paying the ransomware you idiots! You get nothing back and encourage them to continue!
To anyone working in the field, it will come as no surprise that almost half of the 1600 businesses and consumers in the survey quoted at The Inquirer have been...
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CryptoDrop, an early warning system against ransomeware
Given the choice between a confirmation pop up every time you zip numerous files simultaneously or add encryption to a folder or being infected with ransomware; which would you choose? Researchers at…
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I love it when a bad guys plan doesn’t come together
With the lousy news below the fold, up to and including yet another StageFright exploit, here is a bit of amusing news to balance out the bad. A recently unleashed ransomware program…
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Ransomware Spreading Through Major Websites Via Infected Ad Servers
Compromised ad servers have been pushing out ransomware directly to unwitting users of many popular domains. As reported by Ars Technica (via MalwareBytes and others), whose story is heavily referenced here, the...
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