Ransomware is not new – it dates back to the 1980s – but it has undergone a renaissance throughout the 2010s, to the extent that it looks almost nothing like it did in its early days. Perpetrators have enhanced various strains with strong encryption (CryptoLocker), designed them to exploit protocols such as Microsoft Windows SMB […]

May 12, 2017: The WannaCry ransomware attack was a May 2017 worldwide cyberattack by the WannaCry ransomware cryptoworm, which targeted computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system by encrypting data and demanding ransom payments in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. It propagated through an exploit in older Windows systems. While Microsoft had released patches previously to close […]

Let’s review some of the biggest malware threats of 2017.

Ransomware has re-entered the public eye with the recent WannaCry campaign.

Total Defense has identified a massive ransomware attack that is currently unfolding worldwide. Preliminary information shows that the malware sample responsible for the infection is an almost identical clone of the GoldenEye ransomware family. Total Defense products detect the currently known samples of this new “GoldenEye/Petya” ransomware. Recently ransomware has become one of the most […]

Here, we’ll look at three of the most infamous and damaging computer viruses in history.