What Is ECC-IT Doing to Protect Its Clients?īased on our latest research and problem-solving efforts, here’s what we’re doing about it: Be aware that the recovery process can be frustrating, time-consuming and disruptive. If you have good back-ups in place, in the event of an attack, then you can restore unencrypted versions of your files. Therefore, you must have excellent, regularly scheduled back-ups for all data. Despite these precautions, you may still get attacked.
Scrutinize carefully every email containing an attachment before opening the file. To prevent an attack, you must be vigilant when opening email attachments. Protecting yourself from the malware attacks takes place on two fronts: prevention and then recovery. That means the anti-virus/anti-malware tools have not encountered that exact variant before, and therefore do not recognize it as a threat and are unable to protect you against it!
In addition, nearly all are “zero day” attacks. Those poisoned search results, in turn, come from search engines, such as Ask.com, which is installed every time anyone applies a Java update and neglects to uncheck the box that causes Ask (or other search engines) to be installed and become the default search engine. Most of the rest come from poisoned search results. Most come from infected zip files attached to emails. We’ve analyzed these attacks, and here’s what we’ve found: Each time it appears, its name and characteristics change, but it continues to be a serious dilemma. It spreads through the use of infected email attachments, botnet software already in existence on infected machines, and unauthorized downloads allowed by outdated browsers. This group of malware threatens to hijack your computer or data and hold it for ransom unless you pay the creators of the virus. CryptoLocker Malware: Worst Computer Virus in 10 Years and CryptoWall: The Latest in Ransomware and Cyber Crime are two previous newsletter articles that we published. You may have seen us previously warn about a growing number of incidents involving ransomware known collectively by the name of Cryptolocker.
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