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Irish businesses hit hard by data locking ransomware Filecoder/Cryptolocker
ESET Ireland reports the last few weeks have seen an increased number of victims of data locking ransomware among Irish businesses. Malware and support experts from the antivirus firm ESET Ireland...
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Law enforcement strikes back at cybercriminals that were attacking Irish...
ESET Ireland has been closely following the cyberattacks against Irish businesses with ransomware like Cryptolocker, which encrypts data and requests a ransom to unlock it. In the past week, law...
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Filecoder for Android? ESET catches Trojan that can encrypt your mobile
ESET experts have caught the first example of an Android mobile Trojan, which they named Android/Simplocker. Similar in nature to the Filecoder/Cryptolocker that’s been increasingly plaguing PCs in the...
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CTB-Locker: Multilingual Malware Demands Ransom
As we have seen in previously published articles regarding ransomware, such as TorrentLocker targeting UK with Roya Mail phishing and ransomware in a country near you, these threats are appearing more...
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Ransomware: Should you pay the cybercriminals?
Ransomware is a growing threat, threatening to take over your machine, encrypt your files and demand payment in exchange for their safe return. But, as we explore below, paying the ransom is rarely the...
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Businesses increasingly targeted with ransomware
Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting businesses with ransomware, according to a new report. The Online Trust Alliance (OTA)’s 2016 Data Protection and Breach Readiness Guide found that there has...
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The rise of Android ransomware
Ransomware is a growing problem for users of mobile devices. Lock-screen types and file-encrypting “crypto-ransomware”, both of which have been causing major financial and data losses for many years,...
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5 threats every company needs to pay attention to
At ESET Laboratories, we are constantly analyzing and studying how cybercriminals propagate their threats all over the world. Day after day, we receive many different kinds of malicious code created...
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Trojan Downloaders on the rise: Don’t let Locky or TeslaCrypt ruin your day
Weeks after it started attacking and encrypting victims’ files, Locky is still targeting many users. In order to provide more information about this threat, we have put together some information to...
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Ransomware threat highlights why backing up data is essential
Noticeably, over the last two years, there has been a marked increase in ransomware attacks, which is, in its simplest form, a type of malware that is executed for the principal reason of extortion....
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Ransomware and the Internet of Things
We all know that ransomware has become a huge problem, hitting businesses and consumers alike as it encrypts valuable data and attempting to extort sometimes large sums of money for safe recovery. But...
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Ransomware is everywhere, but even black hats make mistakes
Ransomware is everywhere. At least that might be the impression left by a seemingly endless stream of news reports on recent cyberattacks. Well, there were several (good) reasons why criminals have...
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Cybercriminals ‘increasingly relying upon ransomware’
Ransomware is being increasingly relied upon in cyberattacks, according to Verizon’s latest Data Breach Investigations Report. Over the last 12 months, there has been a 16% increase in ransomware...
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Jigsaw and how ransomware is becoming more aggressive with new capabilities
There is no doubt that criminals have found a mechanism in ransomware enabling them to obtain significant benefits with relatively little effort. And the information stored by computers is much more...
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FBI: No, you shouldn’t pay ransomware extortionists
The roll call of organisations hit by ransomware attacks is depressingly long – hospitals, government departments, school districts, banks, businesses small and large… even law enforcement agencies...
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Ransomware: First files … now complete devices
A major threats to computer security is malicious code. In fact, over the years, it has become one of the main causes of security incidents, from the first viruses in 1986 to the most sophisticated...
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TorrentLocker: Crypto-ransomware still active, using same tactics
In December 2014, ESET released a white paper about TorrentLocker, a crypto-ransomware family spreading, via spam, email messages that impersonated local postal service, energy or telecom companies....
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The economics of ransomware recovery
Sometimes, the easy way out is the road to ruin. After WeLiveSecurity published the article Ransomware: To pay or not to pay?, SC Computing’s Bradley Barth picked up on a point I made there, where I...
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Ransomware: Expert advice on how to keep safe and secure
Ransomware is malicious software that criminals use to hold computers or computer files to ransom, demanding payment from victims to get them back. Sadly, ransomware is an increasingly popular way for...
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NHS increasingly being targeted by ransomware attacks
NHS hospitals are increasingly being targeted with ransomware attacks, according to an investigation. The online newspaper found that in the past 12 months, at least 30 NHS trusts in England have been...
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