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The Week In Ransomware – October 16th 2020 – The Weekend Is Upon Us Ransomware continues to target government entities and the enterprise, while victims quietly pay ransoms that power this cycle of attacks. This week we learned that government software provider Tyler Technologies paid a ransom to obtain a decryptor for their attack. We also learned
Nation-State Actor Hit Google With The Largest DDoS Attack In an overview of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) trends targeting its network links, Google revealed that in 2017 a nation-state actor used massive firepower that amounted to more than 2.54 terabits per second. The actor targeted thousands of Google IP addresses at the same time and used several
ThunderX Ransomware Rebrands As Ranzy Locker, Adds Data Leak Site ThunderX has changed its name to Ranzy Locker and launched a data leak site where they shame victims who do not pay the ransom. ThunderX is a ransomware operation that was launched at the end of August 2020. Soon after launching, weaknesses were found in
UK Urges Orgs To Patch Severe CVE-2020-16952 SharePoint RCE Bug The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) today issued an alert highlighting the risks behind the recently addressed CVE2020-16952 remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server. NCSC, the cybersecurity arm of the UK’s GCHQ intelligence service, urges organizations to make sure that all Microsoft