Researchers at SophosLabs have discovered a new threat to be on the alert for. A variant of the Snatch ransomware has been spotted in the wild. It features an innovative means of getting around whatever antivirus software you may be using to defend yourself. Disguised as a backup utility, when the malware is installed, it forces the Windows … [Read more...] about Ransomware Uses New Method To Get Past Antivirus Programs
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New Ransomware Targets Network Attached Storage Devices
Yet another new ransomware family has been found in the wild, discovered independently by researchers at two separate security firms, Anomail and Intezer. The new strain has been dubbed "QNPCrypt" by Intezer and eCh0raix" by Anomail and is written in the Go programming language. When it encrypts files, it changes the file extension to ".encrypt" … [Read more...] about New Ransomware Targets Network Attached Storage Devices
Latest Windows 7 Update Could Cause AntiVirus Program Issues
If you're still using Windows 7, you probably already know that Microsoft recently threw users of some of it's older operating systems a bone when they issued a rare, emergency security patch designed to protect their systems better. Unfortunately, there's a problem. According to the UK security firm Sophos, and backed up by sporadic user reports, … [Read more...] about Latest Windows 7 Update Could Cause AntiVirus Program Issues