Inside a ransomware attack: From the breach to the demand

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July 2, 2020

Inside a ransomware attack: From the first breach to the ransom demand

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•	This is how EKANS ransomware is targeting industrial control systems
•	New ThiefQuest ransomware discovered targeting macOS users
•	Ransomware is now your biggest online security nightmare. And it's about to get worse

Hacker ransoms 23k MongoDB databases

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One out of every 142 passwords is '123456'

The '123456' password was spotted 7 million times across a data trove of one billion leaked credentials, in one of the biggest password re-use studies of its kind.

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