New malware targets governments

All experts agree that ransomware is unpredictable, hard if not impossible to prevent, and is currently showing no signs of slowing. Businesses are facing numerous challenges from this evolving, dangerous threat, with Andy Buchanan fromRead more

Think of a cyber criminal and what do you see? For many of us the answer is an obsessive loner, working from ‘criminal headquarters’ that are nothing more than a cramped bedsit. While that imageRead more

The cost of ransomware attacks: $1 billion this year And it’s only the beginning, with file locking malware only set to grow and take larger role in cybercrime, warn researchers. Read More Contact ZenMSP todayRead more

In the past month, WordFence forensic analysts ran into two situations where they saw a significant number of site cleaning customers, all from the same hosting companies, all with the same malware. In both cases theRead more

What Does This Mean? As of today Windows Vista has now reached the end of its product support lifecycle after completing five successful years. In other words, Microsoft will no longer be supporting Windows Vista, andRead more

Until Microsoft patches this problem, use Chrome: a slip in file path handling allows an attacker to crash Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 with a simple file call. The bug is triggered if Windows’ MasterRead more

  Another month, another global ransomware attack. Just as it seemed that the threat of WannaCry has dissipated, organisations around the world are finding themselves under siege from a new threat. Bitdefender has identified aRead more

Since March 2017, Google and Symantec have been involved in a dispute over Symantec’s validation process for SSL certificates (read more here). Google has announced a solution that will have an immediate impact on youRead more