Today I want to take a closer look at a specific ransomware variant – Hello Kitty ransomware. This one is interesting to me because it was one of the first ransomware strains I really looked at and researched, when the Linux variant began to target ESXi in Summer 2021. You can see some of my …
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One of my favorite things to do in the morning is to Google “ransomware”. One of these days I’m going to record it, but today I’ll talk about one of my major observations – a major breach by LockBit ransomware. What is LockBit Ransomware? I covered LockBit back in February, since it grabbed my attention …
On July 20, 2022, Cisco released a number of CVEs ranging of various seventies. Let’s take a closer look at them and the impact they may have to your environment. Many of them have to do with the Cisco Nexus Dashboard. July 20, 2022 Critical Cisco CVEs There were a number of CVEs released related …
HelloXD is a ransomware strain which was first discovered in November of 2021, but has been in the news quite a bit recently. Let’s take a closer look at HelloXD ransomware, and what makes it so particularly nasty. Hello XD is a newer ransomware that both encrypts and steals data. It has similarities to Babyk ransomware, as the …
Something I like to say is that it isn’t if you’re ransomware, it’s when. Recently there have been many many ransomware stories in the news, something we’ve been saying for well, a while now. The shocking part is that people are beginning to pay ransoms, which makes many of us IT practitioners scratch our heads. …
Today we are going to take a look at another strain of ransomware, which has not yet seen much press until recently although it has been around for several months. BlackCat ransomware is another ransomware strain with some interesting features to it. You may also see it referred to as ALPHV. Let’s take a closer …