Month: September 2016

CEO Fraud – How to stay protected against this modern day deception

September 2, 2016

So, you’re minding your own business working through your day-to-day battle of never ending emails and sorting through all the stuff you should have finished yesterday. Suddenly an urgent email drops into your inbox from the boss, asking for an urgent transfer of £8000 to a designated bank account. It’s not overly unusual: it’s from … More CEO Fraud – How to stay protected against this modern day deception

TorrentLocker: Crypto-ransomware still active, using same tactics

September 1, 2016

In December 2014, ESET released a white paper about TorrentLocker, a crypto-ransomware family spreading, via spam, email messages that impersonated local postal service, energy or telecom companies. The paper described its distribution scheme, its core functionalities, its network protocol and exposed some similarities with the Hesperbot banking trojan. During the last few months, we decided to … More TorrentLocker: Crypto-ransomware still active, using same tactics