2 Cyber gangs and criminals are evolving their techniques, upgrading malware to hide longer before activating, and stealing massive amounts of data to guarantee their ransom demands are met.
With the recent ransomware attack on the Colonial Gas Pipeline, which netted cybercriminals $5 million in ransom, 2021 is not seeing any relief from such events. "Cybercriminals will stop at nothing to use outlier events and human empathy to line their pockets.we are constantly seeing how attacks evolve through malware delivery mechanisms, inventive social engineering, and new exploits.” 1 "Our 2020 findings depict consumers under constant assault from cybercriminals looking to capitalize on fear and societal uncertainty," said Bogdan Botezatu, Bitdefender's Threat Research and Reporting Director. Unfortunately, cybercriminals exploited that massive increase in online activities and took advantage of any vulnerabilities they could find compared to 2019, there was a shocking 485% rise in ransomware attacks, according to the 2020 Consumer Threat Landscape Report from Bitdefender. For the latest business technology news, follow on Twitter.The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 caused huge numbers of students and workers to turn to remote access for their technologies. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. This story, " Microsoft shuts down malware-friendly Autorun," was originally published at. Microsoft offer website guidance on its on how to disable that feature. Importantly, the change does not affect the behavior of autoplay, which automatically executes the code on CDs and DVDs.
Windows 7 comes with Autorun pre-disabled. The update affects Windows Server 2008 and pre-Windows 7 versions of the desktop OS. Disabling the feature previously required manually tweaking the registry or applying a roundabout fix. The change to Autorun, pushed out Tuesday among an array of security patches, disables Autorun via Windows Upate. Arguably synonymous with "autoinfect," the Autorun feature is directly responsible for helping propagate worms by giving bad guys a way to easily spread malware via USB devices.Īutorun works by automatically executing code embedded in autorun.inf files on USB devices and other portable media. Microsoft has, at long last, put the brakes on the notoriously exploitable Autorun feature found in older versions of Windows.
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