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September 20, 2016 •
Opinion, Security •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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More and more companies are falling prey to purveyors of ransomware, a virus that attacks computers and literally holds them to ransom – locking users out of their machines and demanding payment to unlock them. As large organisations are able to invest...
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June 23, 2016 •
Security, Top Stories •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on Crypto-ransomware attacks to hit thousands of users in one year
The number of users attacked with encryption ransomware is soaring, with 718,536 users hit between April 2015 and March 2016: an increase of 5.5 times compared to the same period in 2014-2015. The irreversible consequences of this kind of malware infection,...
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May 12, 2016 •
East Africa, North Africa, Security, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on Ransomware: African Businesses continue to be at high risk
Over the last 12 months, there has been a 16% increase in ransomare attacks, a Data Breach Investigation Report by Verizon, has revealed. Ransomware is a hot topic because of the organisations being targeted and because of how prevalent it has become. The...
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March 8, 2016 •
Enterprise, Lists, Security, Top Stories •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on Top 5 threats every company needs to pay attention to
ESET’s laboratories constantly analyse and study how cybercriminals propagate their threats all over the world. Looking back at ESET’s trend papers, we can see the evolution and the changes that companies have had to undergo. From a corporate...
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April 14, 2015 •
Security, Top Stories •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on How to escape from CoinVault Ransomeware
From today, victims of CoinVault ransomware have a chance to retrieve their data without paying the criminals, thanks to a repository of decryption keys and a decryption application made available online by Kaspersky Lab and the National High Tech Crime Unit...
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February 13, 2015 •
Security, Top Stories •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on Ransomware set to plague South Africa
Ransomware – a type of malware that stops people from using their computers and accessing their data until a ransom is paid to the creator – is rearing its head in South Africa, this is according to IT security vendor, Securicom. According to the company,...
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March 26, 2014 •
Security •
Charlie Fripp •
Comments Off on Most spam in February targeted Valentine’s Day
According to Kaspersky Lab, a large portion of malicious attachments in February’s spam came in emails allegedly sent by women who wanted to make new friends in the run-up to Valentine’s Day. Some attackers went even further by trying to entice...
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August 19, 2013 •
Security •
Chris Tredger •
Comments Off on Cybercriminals developing more malware
Kaspersky Lab’s experts recently published its IT Threat Evolution Report for Q2 2013, which analyses the most prominent IT security incidents and trends while providing statistical analysis and telemetry for the quarter’s cyberthreat landscape....
