A Flawed Ransomware that Enables Victims to Evade Payment

A newly released strain of ransomware has been broken, allowing for victims to evade payment and access their locked data. The Scraper ransomware, is in fact a Torlocker which was discovered in October last year and given the name Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Scrape. The ransomware encrypts a victim’s files including documents, video, images and database copies and demands […]

China’s ‘Great Cannon’ turns into Cyber-weapons

According to a new report from Citizen Lab, China has been developing a new way to intercept and redirect internet traffic destined for its top online search service, Baidu.com possibly for the purpose of unsettling series of denial-of-service attacks aimed at sidelining sites that distribute anti-censorship tools. China is widely suspected of being behind the […]