Malware

Most of the incentives driving ransomware operations have only intensified over the past year, while law enforcement and defenders look for new angles to stem the tide.

The credential phishing attack impersonated the U.S. Postal Service that sought to get victims to give up their credit card credentials and pay a special delivery fee within three days to ensure package delivered.

How a company sets up their IT environment, where they place their backups in relation to the rest of their network and how they communicate with their cloud providers all make a difference in how effectively a business can insulate itself from ransomware.

Three Democratic senators requested a federal auditing group look into how the national government assists local school districts in fighting the scourge of ransomware.

Google Chrome, specifically, accounts for about 70 percent of the browser market share, making its extensions an efficient mechanism for targeting users with malware.

The vast majority of the malicious files detected – 89.8 percent – occurred via Windows PE files, a file format specific to Windows operating systems.

Researchers have tracked 92 separate attacks since January, but the group's website indicates it has compromised tens of thousands of internet-exposed databases.