November 2018. A Brooklyn business opens for their usual days work. Employees go about their morning activities preparing for the work day. Upon starting their computers, they begin to log into their emails and fire up their software applications. One employee after the other gets similar error messages “file can’t be found” when they try […]
We received a call this week from a long time customer, a plumbing company that relies on SAP software to conduct their business; stating they could not access their server drive. Theyre business was stopped in it’s tracks. Encryptionware garbled (encrypted) all the data including their SQL databases. We instructed them to immediately power down […]
Malware strikes again! We recieved numerous calls this week from several healthcare providers who use allscripts. We sent our technicians out to do a site inspection and found every single machine infected with encryptionware. Luckily for the Doctor, the operating system was not heavily damaged, and we were able to successfully clean the boot volume […]
OnGuard Remote Backup saves another long time customer! One morning we received a call from a fabrication company, unable to access their billing system, driven by SAP software. We found they were hit with the Ransom.CryptXXX (WannaCry) attack, causing complete encryption of all data, and critical operating system files. We acted quickly to get them […]
By by Danny Bradbury, Sophos Microsoft Windows 10 users were left livid late last week after Microsoft mistakenly told them that their licenses were invalid. On Thursday, Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise customers began complaining online that Microsoft was declaring their license keys invalid. The users, who confirmed that they had legal copies of the […]
Microsoft cracks down on tech support scams, 16 call centers raided Read Article at Sophos More than 100 Indian police swarmed 16 tech support scam call centers in Gurgaon and Noida last week, arresting 39 people for allegedly impersonating legitimate support reps for companies including Microsoft, Apple, Google, Dell and HP. The day after the […]
Support wouldn’t change his password, so he mailed them a bomb by Lisa Vaas, Sophos Read Article at Naked Security On 8 March, Cryptopay co-founder Wesley Rashid began to open a padded package addressed to two of his employees. Something about it struck him the wrong way, though, so he didn’t open it all the […]
by Danny Bradbury, Sophos Microsoft Windows 10 users were left livid late last week after Microsoft mistakenly told them that their licenses were invalid. On Thursday, Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise customers began complaining online that Microsoft was declaring their license keys invalid. The users, who confirmed that they had legal copies of the operating […]
by Lisa Vaas, Sophos Still reeling from last week’s Windows 10 Pro debacle, Microsoft dropped a fresh pile of “Oops!” onto Windows 10 Mobile users. On Wednesday, users started reporting that an app update had broken Mail and Calendar: Mail and Calendar no longer starts. After a short flash screen the app crashed back to […]
Discovery shows China continues to sabotage critical technology components bound for America By Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley October 9, 2018, 11:01 AM EDT Updated on October 9, 2018, 12:04 PM EDT Originally posted in Bloomberg – Read Article Here A major U.S. telecommunications company discovered manipulated hardware from Super Micro Computer Inc. in its network […]
