Cybersecurity news

MOC Cybersecurity

This MOC is all about cybersecurity news that I've read online.


To Read:

Why Hackers Target Critical Infrastructure and Why It's Difficult to Upgrade Cybersecurity
https://www.makeuseof.com/why-hackers-target-critical-infrastructure/

Different ransomware gangs and their level of integrity
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3607649/the-worst-and-most-notable-ransomware.html


Ransomware

Ransomware right now behaves like a standard application.

  • Doesn't require local administrator privileges
  • doesn't care if UAC is on,
  • most make use of standard Windows API for encryption, which you can't disable without really messing up a workstation.