ransomeware

Before you forget that it is not April Fool's Day, this actually looks to be a real thing. This PUBG Ransomware does not go in search of your hard earned cash, but rather will decrypt your hijacked files if you play PUBG for an hour (actually you just have the run an executable for 3 seconds)...

Mecklenburg County in North Carolina, with a population of around 900,00 good folks, is taking it right in the pooper today thanks to some enterprising hackers. It seems that someone left the door open and has allowed 48 of its 500 servers to be infected with LockCrypt Ransomware. County...

A Petya decryption key has been made public by Janus Cybercrime Solutions as per this Twitter post. We have not verified this in-house, so you are on your own if you are wanting to access that file, but I am trying to get verification. All this came via betanews. Thanks cagey! Janus...

I am not sure how many of you folks still use Photobucket for, well, anything, but apparently there are a lot of people over in the UK that still use Photobucket for for Amazon and Ebay product photos. It seems as if Photobucket changed its long-established terms of service fairly quickly, and...

You read about these Ransomware situations happening all the time now, and you think you know just how bad it is to deal with, at least on a technical level for most [H] readers. The lengths these criminals are going to screw it in even deeper is disheartening at best. Others played the anger...

This is our happy feel-good story of the day to give you that warm fuzzy feeling inside during your lunch break. It seems that digital bandits are becoming much more to worry about than digital terror, hopefully. Given that we are seeing more and more stories of this nature having real world...