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As ransomware evolves, businesses need new tools to fight back Cybersecurity With the frequency of high-profile cyber attacks of late, the thought of having one’s company data being locked up by ransomware must have been enough to keep many a business leader awake. Now, there’s more to worry – hackers are not only encrypting the data but they are also exposing and selling it to further damage the victim. The past year has seen a growing trend in cyber attacks, where victims are told not just to pay a ransom for the data that is being encrypted in their compromised systems, but also to p...

Sophos Links Mount Locker to Astro Locker Ransomware Phil Muncaster UK / EMEA News Reporter , Infosecurity Magazine Security experts have uncovered a series of close links between ransomware groups Mount Locker and Astro Locker Team, in a new report that will be of interest to incident responders. Sophos’ Managed Threat Response (MTR) team said it recently dealt with an attack that had all the TTPs of a Mount Locker operation. However, when it followed the link in the ransom note, the researchers were met by a ‘support’ team who introduced themselves as “Astro Locker Team.” On fur...