GandCrab Ransomware
Ransomware attack news trending on Google
1.) Reports are in that class 11 students studying at the Sir John Colfox Academy, Bridport, Dorset, England have lost their valuable GCSE school work due to a ransomware attack recently. Highly placed sources say that the school database was hit by the said malware when a member of staff mistakenly opened an email containing […]
Europol and Dutch National Police offer free decryption tools for GandCrab Ransomware
In the first of its kind move, the Europol and Dutch National Police on a joint note have issued a free decryption tool for those databases which have been locked by GandCrab ransomware. The tool will be available at no cost on ‘No More Ransom Portal’ and will help the victims in unlocking the systems […]
Google Trending news related to Cyber Attacks
1.) From now on, the government of Maryland has decided to draw stringent penalties against ransomware developers and spreaders with state lawmakers already planning to transform the bill into law by March second week this year. Thus, those convicted of ransomware crimes may face tougher penalties in coming weeks which include those who plotted ransomware […]
Ransomware news for the day
1.) The computer network of Bridgeport schools was hit by ransomware on Friday which took hostage of some critical files related to the curriculum and attendance of the students. It’s said that the hackers are demanding a ransom in exchange for the decryption key. However, the IT staff are looking for alternatives to recover back […]
Cyber Attack news for the day
Topeka Utilities Department has suffered a cyber attack recently in which data of more than 10,000 Topekans got exposed. A statement released on Monday says that the data breach occurred between Oct 31 and Dec 7 impacting all the users who used the city’s website for payment of utility bills via Central Square. Molly Hadfield, […]
Saturn Ransomware being distributed for free!
Ransomware authors of the new Saturn Ransomware variant are allowing prospective malware distributors to circulate the ransomware for free. All that they need to do is to sign up a web page via a dark web access and then start distributing the ransomware at free of cost. According to a source from Bleeping Computer which […]
Ransomware news on Spartanburg Public Library and GandCrab
Spartanburg County Public Library was hit by a ransomware cyberattack on Monday this week and so the users of the library were not in a position to check out or return books from that day onwards. The library staff has issued a notice on Tuesday saying the computer systems were down for maintenance and so […]
