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…

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…

Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is defined as any information that can be used on its own or combined with other information to identify, contact or locate an individual. This can include…

In 2015, security experts were predicting ransomware would be huge for cybercriminals in 2016. The majority had no idea it would be this huge.

Cybercriminals have a large toolbox when it comes to Ransomware. There are many different variants of Ransomware, but they all have the same intent – to encrypt your data and hold it for a financial…

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…