Friday 30 December 2016

Ransomware Update

Yes, it has been a while since I posted anything here. Sorry about that, to both my readers. Here are a couple of things that have just come to my attention.

An article by Catalin Cimpanu for Bleeping Computer: It's Almost 2017 and Users Are Still Getting Infected with Malware via Fake AV Software. It includes instances of a Remote Access Trojan and ransomware distributed as security software.

While KillDisk moves from disk-wiping to ransomware - avien.net/blog/2262-2/

David Harley