SC Magazine – Australian and New Zealand businesses are being hit with a ransomware campaign, according to Trend Micro. First detected in February, the ransomware, dubbed Crysis, is now targeting the two nations via remote desktop protocol (RDP) brute force attacks. The Crysis ransomware is spread through spam and targets are infected by clicking on […]

The VAR Guy – Well, the Russians are at it again. The Russian cyber-espionage group dubbed Fancy Bear, a group responsible for a number of large-scale hacks, government plots and possibly the Democratic National Committee breaches, has struck again. Their target this time? High-profile American athletes.

Help Net Security – Cyber attacks aren’t slowing down – in fact, 76 percent of organizations have experienced a breach within the last two years. Enterprises of all sizes, across every industry, are challenged to respond to increasingly complex and severe attacks – often only learning about the size, severity, and type of incident they’re […]

It’s not just laptops, phones, and tablets that are capable of connecting to the internet in today’s world. Technology has progressed to such an extent that seemingly ordinary items such as watches, refrigerators, cars, fire alarms, yard tools, ovens, and even toys like Cabbage Patch Kids and Furbys are being hooked to the web. And […]

The VAR Guy – Week after week, countless news stories surface spewing tales of breaches, new bugs and attackers outsmarting less-than-stellar or outdated defense systems. What effect does ransomware have on the channel? On Wednesday, the backup and disaster recovery gurus at Datto turned the focus on the channel with the release of a report […]

Stephen Gates, chief research intelligence analyst for NSFocus, says that while drive-by ransomware attacks are a real and growing problem, extortion happens in other ways, and partners need to keep their eyes on the full panoply of extortion methods — including attackers threatening companies with DDoS attacks unless they pay up and demanding payment for […]

In the early days of DDoS attacks, the motivations and techniques were very different than they are today. When the first DDoS attacks were launched in the early 2000s, attackers were primarily motivated by competitive advantage and notoriety. Additionally, the mechanisms attackers used were quite primitive in comparison to the attacks launched today.