January - A stupid and damaging new strain called 7ev3n encrypts your data and demands 13 bitcoins to decrypt your files. In addition to the large ransom demand, the 7ev3n crypto-ransom malware also does a great job trashing the Windows system that it was installed on. February - Ransomware criminals infect thousands with a weird WordPress hack. An unexpectedly large number of WordPress websites have been mysteriously compromised and are delivering TeslaCrypt to unwitting end-users.
Antivirus is not catching this yet. February - It's Here. It was only a matter of time, but some miscreant finally did it. There is a new strain somewhat amateurishly called "Locky", but this is professional grade malware. The major headache is that this flavor starts out with a Microsoft Word attachment which has malicious macros in it, making it hard to filter out. Over , workstations were infected in just a few hours, data from Palo Alto Networks shows.
Behind Locky is the deadly Dridex gang , the pound gorilla in the banking Trojan racket. March - MedStar receives a massive ransomware demand. A Baltimore Sun reporter has seen a copy of the cybercriminal's demands.
April - News came out about a new strain that does not encrypt files but makes the whole hard disk inaccessible. As if encrypting files and holding them hostage is not enough, cybercriminals who create and spread crypto-ransomware are now resorting to causing blue screen of death BSoD and putting their ransom notes at system startup—as in, even before the operating system loads.
It's called Petya and clearly Russian. It's happening in the UK today, and you can expect it in America tomorrow [correction- it's already happening today]. The bad guys in Eastern Europe are often using the U. So here is what's happening: victims get a phishing email that claims they owe a lot of money, and it has their correct street address in the email.
The phishing emails tell recipients that they owe money to British businesses and charities when they do not. April - Hello mass spear phishing, meet ransomware! Ransomware is now one of the greatest threats on the internet. Also, a new strain called CryptoHost was discovered, which claims that it encrypts your data and then demands a ransom of.
These cybercrims took a shortcut though, your files are not encrypted but copied into a password protected RAR archive. April - CryptoWorms: Cisco's Talos Labs researchers had a look into the future and described how ransomware would evolve.
It's a nightmare. They created a sophisticated framework for next-gen ransomware that will scare the pants off you. Also, a new strain called Jigsaw starts deleting files if you do not pay the ransom. CNN Money reports about new estimates from the FBI show that the costs from so-called ransomware have reached an all-time high.
Now here's a new hybrid nasty that does a multitude of nefarious things. A few months ago the pound Dridex cyber gang moved into ransomware with Locky, and now their competitor Reveton follows suit and tries to muscle into the ransomware racket with an even worse criminal malware multitool.
At the moment CryptXXX spreads through the Angler Exploit Kit which infects the machine with the Bedep Trojan, which in its turn drops information stealers on the machine, and now ads professional grade encryption adding a. Here is a graph created by the folks of Proofpoint which illustrates the growth of new strains in Q1, Here is a blog post that looks at the first 4 months of and describes an explosion of new strains.
May - Petya comes loaded with a double-barrel ransomware attack. If the initial overwriting the master boot record does not work, they now have an installer that offers Petya and a backup "conventional" file-encrypting strain called Mischa. A new Version 4 of DMA Locker comes out with weapons-grade encryption algorithms, and infects machines through drive-by downloads from compromised websites.
In a surprising end to TeslaCrypt, the developers shut down their ransomware and released the master decryption key. June - CryptXXX becomes UltraCrypter and targets data stored on unmapped network shares along with local HDD volumes, removable drives, and mapped network repositories.
The RAA ransomware goes after Russian victims, which is rare considering that most cyber mafia are based there. A new strain called BART duh!
EduCrypt demonstrates what happens when employees open infected attachments. Tripwire has a more detailed write-up here. The upshot? Everyone and their cybercrime brother has jumped on the bandwagon. August - Hitler ransomware continues the recent trend of less skilled cybercriminals simply deleting files hoping to make a quick buck. The wildly popular PokemonGo app unsurprisingly has a ransomware that impersonates it.
The developer added a backdoor Windows account, spreading the executable to other drives, and creating network shares. Voicemail notifications have become a popular phishing email in at least two campaigns. Fantom ransomware uses file and process names to set the size of the ransom demand, so if the campaign is targeting home users for example the ransom would be lower than if the target was a large enterprise. October - Virlock is a two year old strain that spreads like a virus in the cloud.
A massive Cerber campaign uses malicious Macros to infect its victims. Another version of Cerber stops SQL so it can encrypt the database. CryPy, a strain written in Python, also had Paypal phishing pages on the server the phishing emails were coming from so expect more to come from this one. As of now, ID Ransomware can detect over different strains!
November - Locky is very much alive and well. JS file, another attacks victims via Facebook messenger. Crysis decryption keys have been made public. A browser locker variant called Ransoc infects victims via malvertising. Karma ransomware pretends to be a Windows optimization program and is distributed via a Pay-per-Install Network. December - Osiris is a new Locky strain delivering surprise surprise, Excel docs containing macros that download and install Locky.
The phishing email contains both an Excel file that pulls the malware and a PDF used as a social engineering tool. The Sandworm cybercrime gang has gotten their hands on KillDisk malware and added a ransomware feature. January - Spora ransomware gives its victims options to just pay for file decryption, or they can pay more for immunity against future attacks.
This is a sophisticated strain that collects victim data into a. KEY file, which then must be sent to the attackers who will set the ransom amount based on that data and provide decryption once paid. A new version of Spora uses an innovative way to spread itself via USB sticks. February - A new app claims to have login data for leaked Netflix accounts, allowing users to get free access. What you actually get is fake account credentials, while your data is being encrypted in the background.
DynA-Crypt ransomware not only encrypts data, it also attempts to steal information and even deletes files without backing them up. Weak passwords make these attacks successful. The original Petya has been hijacked by cybercriminals making it their own. Dubbed PetWrap, this new variant features a special module that patches the original Petya ransomware 'on the fly. April - The IT director for a private school reported that after getting hit with Samas ransomware , their entire Veeam backup repositories were wiped out as a result.
The FBI said they had never seen ransomware delete backups. This is a prime example of why offline backups are so important! Cerber has taken over the ransomware market in , its features robust encryption, offline encryption, etc and its RaaS Ransomware-as-a-Service business model make it very easy for newbie criminals to run their own custom campaigns. Most recently, Cerber gained the ability to evade detection by cybersecurity tools which use machine learning to identify threats.
Locky has reappeared on the scene via phishing emails with a PDF that has a Word file hidden within, which executes a macro script when opened by the user. This scenario allows the phishing email to bypass sandboxes. May - Fatboy Raas ransomware-as-a-service uses the Big Mac index from The Economist in determining how much ransom to ask for. WanaCry really caused the world to take notice of ransomware.
Shadow Brokers, the hackers who leaked the NSA SMB zero-day exploit that powered WanaCry, published a manifesto announcing a subscription offer where they will release more zero-day bugs and exploits for various desktop and mobile platforms, stolen from the NSA.
Coming in June , it is set up like a 'wine of month' club with subscribers getting a members only data dump each month. June - Microsoft proudly announced that no known ransomware could penetrate the newest Win 10 Creators Update. ZDNet hired a pro hacker who proved that wrong in about 3 hours. It does not delete any data but simply makes it unusable by locking the files and then throwing away the key.
South Korean web hosting provider Nayana was hit with Erebus ransomware which infected Linux servers. Some of their data was permanently deleted in the process, prompting the hosting company to offer free hosting for life and refunds for affected customers.
So aside from the massive million dollar payment, they had additional great financial loss and damage to their reputation. July - F-Secure labs uncovered chat sessions in which a ransomware support agent claimed they were hired by a corporation for targeted operations.
August - An update to Cerber lets the Dridex gang steal from three different Bitcoin wallet apps as well as steals passwords from popular web browsers. Cerber is among the most rapidly evolving ransomware families, the criminals are constantly trying new ways to monetize ransomware.
A key ransomware money laundering operation BTC-e taken down and owner, Russian national Alexander Vinnik was arrested in Greece in a multi-national law enforcement effort. Locky is back with a new Diablo6 variant spread through phishing emails with infected attachments. SyncCrypt is a new phishing threat that hides ransomware inside an infected JPG. September - New nRansomware demands nudes instead of Bitcoin in an attempt to blackmail victims multiple times.
A similar attack spotted in Australia and the US claims that a virus was installed on a porn website which recorded the victim through their webcam. However, scammers are likely bluffing about having compromising information. This led us to believe that these are simply fake extortion emails. Two new massive Locky campaigns were reported this month; one pushing a new variant that encrypts files with the.
October - Bitdefender released its new Ransomware Recognition Tool. This tool analyzes both the ransom note and the encrypted file samples to identify the strain of ransomware and suggest a decryption tool for the identified family, if one is available.
Bad Rabbit ransomware hit organizations in Russia, Ukraine and the U. This is basically a new, improved NotPetya version 2 that starts with social engineering.
In this release, encrypted data is recoverable after buying the key, meaning BadRabbit attack is not as destructive as NotPetya. They fixed a lot of bugs in the file encryption process.
November - The Bad Rabbit attack from last month was found to be a cover for an insidious spear phishing campaign, targeting Ukranian officials in an attempt to get their financial and confidential information. Ransomware attacks are becoming more and more sophisticated and are not always what they look like on the surface.
A new strain called Ordinypt ransomware targeted victims in Germany only. Instead of encrypting users' documents, the ransomware rewrites files with random data. The Scarab strain was updated and spread via the Necurs botnet. In a massive December - Scarab ransomware first seen in November, comes with the option for infected victims to negotiate a price for retrieving their encrypted files.
A white hat hacker developed a working ' ransomcloud ' strain, which encrypts cloud email accounts like Office in real-time. If a white hat can do this, so can a black hat. Watch out for this attack in the near future.
While not yet a widespread payment method for distributors of ransomware, there are a number of examples of ransomware demanding their fee for unlocking be paid in Monero, such as Kirk ransomware. February - Recently, cryptomining related attacks have become more popular than ransomware for many attackers.
The good news is Bleeping Computer has encryption instructions. March - A massive survey of nearly 1, IT security practitioners and decision makers across 17 countries reveals that half the people who fell victim to ransomware infections and chose to pay in were able to recover their files.
This is why backups are so important, there is never a guarantee your files will be recovered even if you pay the ransom. In other words, get your users trained yesterday! A new ransomware-as-a-service dubbed GandCrab showed up mid-month. Yaniv Balmas, a security researcher at Check Point compares GandCrab to the notorious Cerber family , and the expert also added that GandCrab authors are adopting a full fledged agile software development approach , the first time in ransomware history.
More technical details at the Security Affairs blog. Zenis ransomware discovered by the MalwareHunterTeam not only not encrypts your files, but also purposely deletes your backups. The latest version utilizes AES encryption to encrypt the files, unfortunately at this time there is no way to decrypt them. The infection affected several internal and customer-facing applications, such as the online systems that residents used to pay city bills or access court documents.
This strain is believed to have the ability to get access to systems and wait weeks before an attack, making it easier to strike twice. AVCrypt ransomware , discovered by BleepingComputer, tries to uninstall your existing security software such as AV before it encrypts files.
However, it looks like no encryption key is sent to a remote server so it's unclear whether this is true ransomware or a wiper. April - Hackers are working hard at making ransomware less predictable in order to avoid detection.
Changes to the encryption process, the code itself, and even delivery methods are just a few of the 11 ways ransomware is evolving. Verizon's Data Breach Incident Report lists ransomware as the most common type of malware carried by phishing attacks. Healthcare has always been targeted as an industry by hackers trying to get their hands on valuable PII. This is just another indicator that a ransomware infection is seen as a HIPAA data breach and needs to be reported.
May - A new strain called Blackheart drops its payload alongside the perfectly legitimate AnyDesk remote desktop tool, highly likely as a way to evade detection.
If that sounds familiar, similar tool TeamViewer was infected with malware in a similar way in BitKangoroo is another new strain using AES encryption that deletes your files if you do not pay. Once it deletes a file, it will reset the timer back to 60 minutes.
This is the same exploit associated with a previous WannaCry Ransomware campaign. SamSam , the ransomware strain that crippled several cities and school districts in the U. This strain has three new ways to avoid detection: It decrypts the payload only at run-time, making it nearly impossible to identify and analyze. It requires a password to be entered by the threat actor to run in the first place.
T his new strain of SamSam is designed for targeted attacks. July - GandCrab v4 — a more dangerous and invasive newly released strain of the notorious ransomware is back with more power in its pincers: i t no longer needs a C2 server, it functions without Internet access, can spread via the SMB exploit EternalBlue and i t appears to hunt for unpatched machines.
Still, there are easy ways to avoid an attack. SonicWall released a mid-year update to their Cyber Threat Report with some sobering statistics about the state of ransomware this year:. Also this month LabCorp, one of the largest clinical labs in the U.
The attack was contained quickly and didn't result in a data breach. However, before the attack was fully contained, 7, systems and 1, servers were impacted. Of those 1, servers, were production servers.
If you're in health care SamSam is definitely something to watch out for and it can have devastating consequences. A new literature review from Marshall University describes the problem as well as prevention methods in great detail.
September - KnowBe4 released a new version of our popular Ransomware Simulator tool that now tests against 13 ransomware scenarios and 1 cryptomining scenario.
Cryptomining is just another means to a financial end for cybercriminals. J ust like ransomware, remote access trojans RATs , and other types of malware, the cybercriminal needs to somehow infect a machine. This kind of attack isn't going anywhere. The results show 64 percent of respondents do not know what ransomware is. In times like this you really need to step your users through new-school security awareness training to prevent such attacks.
This is the latest attempt to extend the ransomware attack beyond the simple act of extortion. It is likely that the group is more interested in the credentials than ransom payments.
Four new strains of Dharma ransomware were discovered that evade detection by all but one antivirus solutions on the market. Researchers observed a malicious executable dropped through a. There is no decryption available, even if ransom is paid an encryption key is generated locally so it's a fake key. There should be no question by now that Mac and iOS devices are targets for attacks.
Most organizations have a group of users that use Macs, usually the creative types. December - New sextortion attacks take a dark turn and infect people with GandCrab ransomware.
The email claims cybercriminals have a video of you watching an inappropriate website, and that you can download that video and see it for yourself. A server outage at a major newspaper publishing company prevented the distribution of many leading U. It looks like this was a targeted ransomware attack using the specialized Ryuk ransomware family.
This strain is the latest incarnation of the earlier HERMES ransomware which is attributed to the capable and active Lazarus Group that operates out of a Chinese city just north from North Korea and reportedly controlled by the N.
Unit spy agency. January - A new malware attack was detected in the wild that combines two known pieces of malware: the Vidar data harvesting malware followed by GandCrab ransomware. Running an infostealer before deploying the ransomware ensures some money for the adversary even if the victim does not pay the ransom.
See how the attack works here. With each infection, the message goes beyond just asking for bitcoin, but instead attempts to compel victims to pay the ransom with the claim that the money will go to a fictitious charity. Ransomware is using a variety of methods to reduce or nullify the effectiveness of data backups such as attacking shared network drives, Windows shadow copies, and any files that have backup file extensions.
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein released a report on Thursday that highlights the impact of data breaches on the state in , and paired the report with a bipartisan bill to strengthen breach notifications to include ransomware attacks. A new strain dubbed Anatova was discovered in a private peer-to-peer p2p network and targets consumers by using the icon of a game or application to trick the user into downloading it.
Anatova is packed with functionality that is also difficult to analyze, a telling sign this was created by experienced bad actors. Average numbers of paid ransom and downtime resulting from an attack backups compromised are all up over the previous quarter. Torrent sites are banning CracksNow, a popular source of torrent uploads, after discovering that the uploader of cracks and keygens was distributing GandCrab ransomware.
March - A new strain called LockerGoga infects aluminum producer Norsk Hydro , and Hexion and Momentive chemical plants, effectively shutting them down for days and go on manual operation, causing them to buy hundreds of new computers.
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