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Nitsan@Cymmetria
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4/21/2016 | 7:40:31 PM
Re: A new meaning to "Scareware"
you can say that again..this is one creepy malware.
ArionHoward
ArionHoward,
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4/21/2016 | 10:16:14 AM
Re: Success rate?
Thank you Kelly! Loved this article from March. To technical careers, prevention seems so simple with a fully robust business continuity plan that covers the whole company by knowing the worth of all of your data classes, backing them up and testing a full recovery playout regularly. Hospitals, lawyers & police departments are most vulnerable with a lack of technical expertise like cloud service providers, but having been involved with some big full scale breeches a cyberwar is more common than mother natures emergencies that provide more warnings.
ArionHoward
ArionHoward,
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4/21/2016 | 10:16:09 AM
Re: Success rate?
Thank you Kelly! Loved this article from March. To technical careers, prevention seems so simple with a fully robust business continuity plan that covers the whole company by knowing the worth of all of your data classes, backing them up and testing a full recovery playout regularly. Hospitals, lawyers & police departments are most vulnerable with a lack of technical expertise like cloud service providers, but having been involved with some big full scale breeches a cyberwar is more common than mother natures emergencies that provide more warnings.
Kelly Jackson Higgins
Kelly Jackson Higgins,
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4/20/2016 | 7:00:33 PM
Re: A new meaning to "Scareware"
Well, we are in an election year...
Joe Stanganelli
Joe Stanganelli,
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4/20/2016 | 6:35:35 PM
A new meaning to "Scareware"
Reminds me of a prank I read about many years ago that went something like this: Get access to your local super-paranoid libertarian's computer, and install a program that, at a given time while being used, will lock up their computer, make it go blank, then simply put the words "They are coming..." on the screen.

Then, queue the helicopter sound effects.
Kelly Jackson Higgins
Kelly Jackson Higgins,
 User Rank: Strategist
4/20/2016 | 9:48:58 AM
Re: Success rate?
In 2015, victims paid a total of over $24 million in 2,453 reported ransomware attacks,

Here's a good piece we had on the dilemma ransomware victims face: http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/ransomware-putting-companies-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place/d/d-id/1324687
Whoopty
Whoopty,
 User Rank: Ninja
4/20/2016 | 7:00:29 AM
Success rate?
As much as I would champion just taking the hit when others' systems are infected so as not to encourage the practice, I'd really struggle not to pay up if somehow all of my on and offline backups were encrypted. 

Do we know what kind of success rate these sorts of malware have and in the cases where people do pay up, is their data returned in working order?


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