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| Source |  Network World |
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| Identifiant | 355922 |
| Date de publication | 2017-04-10 06:22:00 (vue: 2017-04-10 06:22:00) |
| Titre | Predictive analytics can stop ransomware dead in its tracks |
| Texte | This past February marks the two-year anniversary when Livingston County, Michigan, was hit by ransomware. The wealthiest county in the state had three years' worth of tax information possibly at the mercy of cybercriminals.As a local government, county CIO Rich C. Malewicz said they have been a target of ransomware, but in this instance they had backups at the ready. He said the most memorable ransomware attack was a result of a watering hole campaign using malvertizing to infect users visiting a local news website. “This attack was very clever in that all you had to do to get infected was visit the website, you didn't even have to click on the page. Once the user went to the local news website, they were immediately redirected to a site hosting exploit code and the infamous page appeared demanding a ransom with instructions,†he said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here |
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