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Ransomware continues assault against cities and businesses

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:00:50 +0000

We take a look at the current chaos faced by local governments across the US, as ransomware continues to snap at its cities’ heels.

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Firewall best practices to protect against ransomware

Credit to Author: Chris McCormack| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 19:51:56 +0000

Ransomware has recently vaulted to the top of the news again, as devastating attacks continue to impact government, education and business operations in many jurisdictions, particularly in the United States. These attacks start in a number of ways &#8211; some start with a phishing email, others begin with hackers leveraging vulnerabilities in networking stacks to [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/ZdXUIXt04Eo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Blocking attacks against Windows “CTF” vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: Mark Loman| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:53:35 +0000

Operating systems and run-time environments typically provide some form of isolation between applications. For example, Windows runs each application in a separate process. This isolation stops code running in one application from adversely affecting other, unrelated applications. This means a non-administrative user mode process can&#8217;t access or tamper with kernel code and data, and an [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/N06wKBdEugM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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The lucrative business of Bitcoin sextortion scams

Credit to Author: Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Sextortion scams are back on the radar, and many say they’re on the uptick. We investigate an email campaign to see how lucrative the business of sextortion can be.

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