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I ran into the Cerber variant of Ransomware lately and it is nasty. This one is relatively new having surfaced in March 2016, but thankfully I have only seen it once in the wild…so far. This one is particularly nasty for the following reasons: Runs offline and doesn’t need to be online to fetch encryption …

This nasty piece of work went live on Monday sending out a phishing scam with the subject “View Contract Sheets” asking you to enter your Gmail credentials. If you did it emailed itself to everyone on your contact list. Since then Google says they have fixed it and their recommend fix was to change your …

Blocking Ransomware and the CryptoWall Cryptolocker Trend Micro released a product patch on 2015-05-14 that’s adds Ransomware Protection via their Enhanced Behavior Monitoring features in Worry-Free Business Security 9 SP1. If you are running Trends patch B2532 it is a MUST to install to protect from the EVIL Crypto variants. Head to Trends download site …

I ran into the stupid CryptoWall Ransomware again it seems. If someone calls and says they are seeing 3 files: DECRYPT_INSTRUCTION.HTML, TXT and a shortcut files this is what to do INSTANTLY. Immediately find one of the DECRYPT_INSTRUCTION.TXT files and right click and go to properties. Then go to Details. FIND the Owner and unplug …