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Baltimore Crippled by Ransomware

The city services of Baltimore, MD ground to a halt two weeks ago after a ransomware attack. It's expected that it will take months for them to finish rebuilding their servers. We're not going to summarize the article here, instead, ...

"I am a hacker" Blackmail

" Hi, your account was hacked!"

Website Hacked: You're the Target

Politico's Cybersecurity Newsletter from October 10th, 2018 references a report on hacking that has two golden nuggets in it.

The Easiest Cons

A university just paid $12m to a fraudster. Prevention would have been easy.

Knox County Hacked

The News Sentinel is reporting that Knox County computer systems were breached the night of the primary. It was a two stage attack, complete with with a distraction. Here is the short version. First, the website to report election results ...

Atlanta Ransomeware Recovery: $2.6m

ZDNet reports that Atlanta budgeted approximately $2.6 million to recover from their ransomeware incident earlier this year. This is a small figure as far as ransomeware recovery goes. It excludes the cost of lost productivity, not just city employees but ...

855-785-2511 Scam

This afternoon one of our technicians was chatting with a legitimate support rep from a well-known vendor. The support rep correctly said that he could not help with the issue over web chat but to call 855-785-2511. When our technician ...

SunTrust Data Breach

SunTrust Bank quietly announced Friday, April 20th, 2018 that a former employee was working with a "criminal third party" and may have passed along information from as many as 1.5 million client accounts. Affected customers appear to be being notified by ...

CCleaner Distributing Malware

Summary On Monday, September 18th, Cisco's Talos reported that the popular computer cleaning utility, CCleaner, was found to distributing Malware for about the last month. For a period of time, the legitimate signed version of CCleaner 5.33 being distributed by Avast also ...

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