A new wave of Locky malware emails have been making the rounds since yesterday — July 20, 2016 — with a critical new development, whereby the Windows executable is now embedded in JavaScript. Essentially, the attached JavaScript file has evolved from being a downloader component into becoming the actual ransomware.
Resilient is growing its team and presence on the East Coast. We are pleased to announce the addition of Daemon Price as Vice President of Business Development. He comes to us with 25+ years of experience in government, health, banking and education, where he has successfully increased market share and revenues at
Locky Ransomware continues to be distributed in large numbers, however, the email attachments have been changed, probably due to greater blocking of the JavaScript files that have been favored until now. The Locky attack begins with an email attachment that downloads the actual Locky ransomware. Last week, the Downloader component
In the past week we have seen a resurgence of Locky malware emails. Some examples of the attachment filenames (there are many variations): DETAILS_%username%_291866.ZIP->extracted file: unpaid-166.js %username%_ADDITION_744341.ZIP-> extracted file:addition-0106.js %username%_INVOICE_337060.ZIP-> extracted file:unpaid-643.js SERVICES_%username%_793350.ZIP-> extracted file:addition-3247.js %username%_SCANNED_869621.ZIP-> extracted file:unpaid-6981.js %username%_UNPAID_116521.ZIP-> extracted file:unpaid-8255.js legend: %username% = local part of the email address
Apple’s “find my iPhone” is one of the most useful reasons to be connected to iCloud. If your iPhone is lost you can leave a message onscreen for the finder to contact you. Since the introduction of iOS7, the activation of “find my iPhone” also prevents erasing/resetting of the phone
There has been much speculation in the Internet Security industry about the status of Locky – the ransomware heavyweight of February-May 2016 which suddenly ceased distribution at the start of June. As we previously reported Locky was distributed in vast email outbreaks, many times exceeding 10 billion emails/day and often
We have moved to a new office, leaving the more formal FiDi behind and taking a bold step across Market Street to our new home in SOMA! It’s like a whole new world over here, with our own micro-climate in SF Climates app, more casual dress codes, and lots of
We are happy to announce that we’ve added Google Authenticator to our menu of pre-integrated authentication methods. You can now include this widely used method when creating adaptive access policies to protect your documents and apps. Google Authenticator is based on a Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) that is generated by the Google
3 Easy Steps to Optimize Your M-Files Investment You are a smart business owner and you understand the value of your data. You want the right information at the right time to make the most informed decisions. That’s why you decided to transition your ECM to M-Files.How do you make
Viral pandemics are certainly cause for a hospital to declare a “state of emergency.” But in the case of Methodist Hospital in Kentucky, the virus that caused the “internal state of emergency” didn’t relate to hundreds of patient-filled stretchers… In this instance, Locky had infected the hospital’s entire computer system,
