Tag: ransomware

News and information from the Advent IM team.

#Security predictions for 2018 from the Advent IM Team

Its that time of year. We look back over our shoulder and use the previous 12 months to try and work out what we can expect in the coming 12 months. Sometimes we get it horribly right, such as our prediction of the meteoric rise in ransomware and also that it would start to impact […]

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Julia’s #Rules to Ransomware Safety

From Advent IM Director, Julia McCarron For those of you who read my irregular blogs, you’ll know I have a passion for the TV series NCIS. When I say passion more of an obsession really. So imagine the irony when they air an episode in the UK about Ransomware, in the wake of the world’s […]

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CSP: 2017 – Ransomware workshop

York Racecourse is the venue for CSP: 2017 and this year it is 23-24 May. Ellie Hurst will be hosting a workshop to discuss the legalities and implications of paying ransoms through cyberspace, on day 1. Details of the event are here.

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Ready for Doxware?

A guest post from Del Brazil –  Advent IM Security Consultant Doxware is a more vicious version of Ransomware in that not only does the hacker holds the user to ransom having encrypted their files but also threatens to release sensitive information, photos and/or conversations into the public domain until such time a ransom is […]

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2017 Security Predictions from the Advent IM Team

At this time of year we like to make security predictions for the year to come. Ho Ho Oh dear…     Mike Gillespie – Director I predict – further growth and sophistication in phishing attacks, and as a result of these successful attacks and continuing low quality user awareness and education, an increase in the […]

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