May 16, 2017
In light of recent cyber-attacks focused on global organizations through ransomware, EY is urging organisations worldwide to take immediate action and engage effective response measures to mitigate the effect of these attacks and help protect themselves against future...
May 16, 2017
Mark Hughes, CEO of BT Security, tenders this statement: WannaCry brought to the front many of the issues we, security professionals have been highlighting for considerable time. It is not the first global attack, but it is unique in its scope and the way it spread....
May 16, 2017
An unprecedented wave of ransomware infections is hitting organizations in all industries around the world. The culprit: the WannaCry/WCry ransomware (detected by Trend Micro as RANSOM_WANA.A and RANSOM_WCRY.I). Trend Micro has been tracking WannaCry since its...
May 16, 2017
On Friday 12 May 2017, organisations across the world were hit by a massive ransomware attack, named WannaCry, which exploited a (now patched) Microsoft Windows vulnerability revealed in the Shadowbrokers dump on March 14. Kaspersky Lab researchers have continued to...
May 16, 2017
The fresh ransomware attack of unprecedented proportions, estimated to have impacted at least 100 countries, and affecting massive global organisations such as FedEx, Britain’s national health and the German rail network has highlighted the severe implications of...
May 15, 2017
The world has been shaken by a massive ransomware attack. Jonathan Kropf, CEO of Tarsus On Demand, offers some advice on how to keep your systems safe. It’s one of the world’s fastest-growing industries, it’s already a multibillion dollar global criminal enterprise...
