Phobos Ransomware Emerges from the Dark

Discovered in December 2018, a new ransomware variant called Phobos was discovered by researchers at Covewave which it would seem is a combination of the Dharma and Crysis ransomware variants. The naming of the new ransomware variant will pique the interest of those fond of Greek Mythology as Phobos was the god of fear who was the son of Ares and a brother to Deimos the god of terror. With such a strong name questions will be asked as to whether the malware is indeed something to be scared of. In the report published by Coveware what readers will initially find the most striking is the similarities to the Dharma ransomware variant that has been used so successfully over the years. These similarities go so far as to use the same attack vector that Dharma has, namely open or poorly secured RDP ports. The leveraging of unsecured RDP or Remote Desktop Protocols ports is a favored attack method of hackers. In Septembe...

THIS IS NOT A JOKE Email Scam

People behind this "THIS IS NOT A JOKE" spam campaign are scammers who send this email to a great number of people hoping that someone will take it for granted. The main purpose of this email is to trick its recipients into transferring cyber criminals money. Scammers claim that they have recorded some humiliating video and will spread it if their demands will not be met. Note that this is just one of the many similar scams and it should not be trusted. The best solution is to simply ignore it or any other emails of this kind. Scammers claim that people who received this email visited some adult website and by visiting it they triggered download and installation of some software (supposedly some remote access tool). According to them this program allowed them to access user's webcam and they have recorded a humiliating video. Besides, the installed software also downloaded all email and Facebook contacts...