Cerber Avoids Detection The latest strain of Cerber ransomware has been upgraded to morph every 15 seconds to avoid detection. Traditional AV can't update quick enough to keep up. 12M to 16M new…
It appears there is a tug-of-war going on between Windows 7/8.1 users and Microsoft. There is a large community of Windows 7/8.1 users who refuse to upgrade their operating system to Windows 10 for…
Why do breaches continue to happen? Companies are spending billions of dollars to prevent data breaches, yet they are still occurring every day. In all of the recent major breaches, forensic evidence…
It is only a matter of time until we start hearing the news stories of ransomware attackers combining data theft into the equation. Currently, the only stories about threats and data have been highly…
A Brief History of the Honeypot No, not the organic, non-gmo, honey we all love. Today we're talking about Honeypot computer systems.
In 2015, security experts were predicting ransomware would be huge for cybercriminals in 2016. The majority had no idea it would be this huge.
Recently an odd turn of events occurred in the ransomware industry. The developers of TeslaCrypt shut down, seemingly on their own. The surprising thing was that they also released a master…
The security experts at WatchPoint are vigorously working to get ahead of ransomware. We constantly analyze new strains of ransomware, banking Trojans, and malware and have created a product called…
It seems every week we are writing about the “newest” ransomware threat. The first ransomware variants encrypted your files and demanded small ransoms from $50 to $250 to decrypt files. Today…
