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2021-01-05 11:00:43 | Attacks targeting healthcare organizations spike globally as COVID-19 cases rise again (lien direct) | At the end of October 2020, we reported that hospitals and healthcare organizations had been targeted by a rising wave of ransomware attacks, with the majority of attacks using the infamous Ryuk ransomware. This followed a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory issued by the CISA, FBI and NHS, which warned of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to US… | Ransomware Threat | ||
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2020-12-09 11:00:52 | November 2020\'s Most Wanted Malware: Notorious Phorpiex Botnet Returns As Most Impactful Infection (lien direct) | Check Point Research reports new surge in attacks using the Phorpiex Botnet delivering the Avaddon ransomware in malicious spam campaigns Our latest Global Threat Index for November 2020 has revealed that there has been a new surge in infections by the well-known Phorpiex botnet which has made it the month's most prevalent malware, impacting 4%… | Ransomware Spam Threat | ||
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2020-12-07 11:00:56 | Living in a Post-quantum Cryptography World (lien direct) | By Julia Rabinovich, Architect, Network Security Products Today, it is pretty expected from what we can see in the way hackers go after their victims. Whether through social engineering, phishing scams, or ransomware attacks ultimately it is just a hacker and his classic computer. Which means not a lot of computing power to decrypt complicated… | Ransomware | ||
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2020-11-06 10:00:43 | October 2020\'s Most Wanted Malware: Trickbot and Emotet Trojans Are Driving Spike in Ransomware Attacks (lien direct) | Check Point researchers report that Trickbot and Emotet top the Global Threat Index, and are being used for distributing ransomware against hospitals and healthcare providers globally Our latest Global Threat Index for October 2020 has revealed the Trickbot and Emotet trojans continue to rank as the top two most prevalent malware in October, and that… | Ransomware Malware Threat | ||
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2020-10-29 16:22:31 | Hospitals Targeted in Rising Wave of Ryuk Ransomware Attacks (lien direct) | Healthcare is the most targeted industry, by ransomware, in the US in October October saw a 71% increase in Ransomware attacks against the healthcare sector in the US Ransomware attacks also increased by 33% in APAC and 36% in EMEA Yesterday, the CISA, FBI, and HHS issued a warning against ransomware attacks on U.S. hospitals,… | Ransomware | ||
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2020-10-12 10:00:47 | How to avoid the dangerous wave of ransomware attacks (lien direct) | By Yaelle Harel, Technical Product Marketing Manager The average cost to rectify the impacts of most recent ransomware attacks is US$732,520 for organizations that don't pay the ransom. It rises to US$1,448,458 for organizations that do pay [1]. The top ransomware types in Q3 were Maze and Ryuk. There has been a significant increase in… | Ransomware | ||
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2020-10-06 10:00:45 | Global Surges in Ransomware Attacks (lien direct) | In Q3 2020, Check Point Research saw a 50% increase in the daily average of ransomware attacks, compared to the first half of the year Countries with the most number of ransomware attacks in Q3 are US, India, Sri Lanka, Russia and Turkey Top ransomware types in Q3 were Maze and Ryuk Ryuk ransomware now… | Ransomware | ||
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2020-09-09 10:00:40 | August 2020\'s Most Wanted Malware: Evolved Qbot Trojan Ranks On Top Malware List For First Time (lien direct) | Check Point researchers find dangerous new Qbot variant is spreading via malspam campaign to execute credentials theft, ransomware installation and unauthorized banking transactions Our latest Global Threat Index for August 2020 has revealed that the Qbot trojan, also known as Qakbot and Pinkslipbot, has entered the top ten malware index for the first time, ranking… | Ransomware Malware Threat | ||
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2020-07-10 11:00:37 | June\'s Most Wanted Malware: Notorious Phorpiex Botnet Rises Again, Doubling Its Global Impact On Organizations (lien direct) | Check Point Research finds sharp increase in attacks using the Phorpiex Botnet delivering new 'Avaddon' ransomware via malspam campaigns Our latest Global Threat Index for June 2020 has revealed that in the past month the Phorpiex botnet has been delivering Avaddon Ransomware, a new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) variant that emerged in early June, via malspam campaigns,… | Ransomware Threat | ||
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2019-12-13 13:00:23 | The Urgent Need for Network Security (lien direct) | Published December 13th, 2019 Have you been suffering from frequent and costly data breaches recently? You're not alone. The global cyber landscape has been plagued with ransomware and other attacks. In fact, as reported by the 2019 World Economic Forum, cyber attacks are one of the top 5 threats to global economic development. It's not… | Ransomware | ||
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2019-12-10 13:00:12 | Using the MITRE ATT&CK to investigate the RobbinHood Ransomware (lien direct) | By Yaelle Harel, Threat Prevention Technical Product Manager, published December 10th, 2019 The city of Baltimore was held hostage by RobbinHood ransomware in May 2019. According to the BBC, the ransomware locked 10,000 city government computers, blocked government email accounts, and disabled online payments to city departments for weeks. The malware demands payment in exchange… | Ransomware Malware Threat | ||
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2019-09-11 13:00:02 | We hit snooze on Ransomware in 2017. Guess what? There\'s a 2019 wakeup call! (lien direct) | Two weeks ago a ransomware attack hit 22 Texas towns, authorities say. Computer systems in Texas were hacked, seized and held for ransom in a sophisticated, coordinated cyberattack that prompted a federal investigation, according to state officials. Detailed information about the attack has yet to be released, but we do know that the attackers used… | Ransomware | ||
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2019-06-13 13:00:03 | May 2019\'s Most Wanted Malware: Patch Now to Avoid the BlueKeep Blues (lien direct) | In May, the most significant event in the threat landscape was not a new type of malware: it was a serious vulnerability in older versions of Windows operating systems that – if exploited by criminals – could lead to the type of mega-scale ransomware attacks we saw in 2017 with WannaCry and NotPetya. The… | Ransomware Vulnerability Threat Guideline | NotPetya Wannacry | ★★★ |
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2019-03-19 13:00:04 | Check Point Forensic Files: A New Monero CryptoMiner Campaign (lien direct) | By Marcel Afrahim and Charles Bettan, Endpoint Security Researchers, March 19th 2019 Sand Blast Agent Forensics team have noticed a new variant of the Monero mining malware spreading throughout organizations worldwide. Interestingly, this malware showed similarities with the infection and propagation techniques of popular trojan and ransomware attacks and made use of legitimate IT admin… | Ransomware Malware | ||
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2019-01-18 14:00:05 | Check Point Forensic Files: GandCrab Returns with Friends (Trojans) (lien direct) | Following our previous post about GandCrab, in this post we show how another variant of this well-known ransomware is observed by Check Point's SandBlast Agent (SBA) Behavioral Guard and analyzed through the lens of a SBA Forensics report. In addition, we review how this new variant comes loaded with Trojan malware too, and yet even… | Ransomware Malware | ★★ | |
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2018-12-17 14:00:00 | Check Point Forensic Files: Fileless GandCrab As Seen by SandBlast Agent (lien direct) | Background January 2018 saw the debut of the GandCrab ransomware, a well-known malware that is distributed on the Dark Web which targets mainly Scandinavian and English-speaking countries. In addition, the GandCrab Affiliate Program offers low skilled threat actors the opportunity to run their own ransomware campaigns. Delivered mainly through email spam engines, affiliates are also… | Ransomware Spam Malware Threat | ||
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2018-12-10 14:00:02 | The Ransomware Doctor Without A Cure (lien direct) | When individuals and organizations alike rely so much on their computers to get work done, there is nothing they hate more than being held hostage by ransomware and often hold a deep resistance to paying the demanded ransom. After all, when there is no guarantee the criminal will keep his word and release the files,… | Ransomware | ||
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2018-10-23 21:55:00 | When Ransomware Stopped Working Harder and Started Working Smarter (lien direct) | Observing Ransomware's Evolution in Delivery Tactics Written by Check Point's Incident Response Team Four years ago, we used to joke about the likelihood of Cryptolocker being delivered to every single email address on the internet. Back then, criminals would blast phishing emails to millions of email addresses, sending ransomware variants via infected links… | Ransomware | ||
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2018-10-01 13:00:02 | (Déjà vu) Prevent Ransomware With These Five Tips: Kicking Off National Cyber Security Awareness Month (lien direct) | Did you know that October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), both in the United States and Europe? NCSAM is a public awareness campaign that inspires businesses and individuals to take proactive measures to protect themselves from cyber threats. In celebration of the month, we will be posting a series of blogs that provide… | Ransomware |
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