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GUEST ESSAY: The drivers behind persistent ransomware — and defense tactics to deploy

The Last Watchdog

The technology industry has met the dramatic rise in ransomware and other cyber attacks with an impressive set of tools to help companies mitigate the risks. This gives the perpetrator the access needed to launch the ransomware and lock the company out of its own infrastructure or encrypt files until the ransom is paid in cryptocurrency.

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A Closer Look at the DarkSide Ransomware Gang

Krebs on Security

. “We are apolitical, we do not participate in geopolitics, do not need to tie us with a defined government and look for other our motives [sic],” reads an update to the DarkSide Leaks blog. From today we introduce moderation and check each company that our partners want to encrypt to avoid social consequences in the future.”

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

Everybody's got their own little blog where they post stuff. There's a little security tag they put to see if someone is tampered with it but they are not locked. And that's probably a security design of what they're, what they might put out there and encryption keys and things like that. Here's how I get past it.