The enemies behind ransomware plan to attack your computer by your willingness to open any attachment that comes via your e-mail system; however, you need to learn ways to protect your business by training your users not to quickly hit “Open” on any attachment.
What to Look For: Ransomware Attachments
Sometimes ransomware attackers can use your friend’s e-mail address or computer to spoof their e-mail information and send you attachments that seem legitimate. The common enemy uses Compressed ZIP files with attachments inside to try and hide the communication of viruses.
Some other common methods are PDF files or Word documents that contain GUIDs (Unique Identifiers) that do not make sense on the attachment you are receiving. The reason some of these attachments use GUIDs is because their own ransomware code is generating random junk for the attachment name enticing the user to click on it because the user would not know what is attached.
How to Secure My Company’s E-mail
Kahnnect IT offers several firewall applications to protect your e-mail from ransomware, viruses, malware, and junk e-mail from reaching your mailbox. Some of our services include Proofpoint and several other private server appliance solutions or cloud-based e-mail firewalls to ensure the safety of your company’s e-mail systems.
How to Train My Users
Kahnnect IT can help provide its clients on guidance on how to train users, current and future, on clicking e-mail attachments. We can help ensure that they are receiving legitimate e-mails and only clicking on attachments they expect and are from the verified senders. One key thing is to always check the originating e-mail address, not the name of the sender, to make sure the attachment is not coming from another place on the Internet.
Call for Action
Contact Kahnnect IT today to learn how to train your users, update your computers, and to prepare for future ransomware attacks.
On June 28th, 2017 Malwarebytes was happy to announce that their software was able to block the Petya-esque Ransomware Attack as it hit businesses across the globe. Tens of thousands of businesses have already reported that they were infected just one month after the release of another ransomware attack – known as WanaCrypt0r.
The Use of a Real Time Engine
Malwarebytes was happy to announce that clients using the Malwarebytes Endpoint Security that they were protected against this new specific ransomware variant called Petya-esque using their real-time detection engine.
Malwarebytes’ real-time detection engine continuously monitors for ransomware behaviors which were analyzed with this latest round of attacks.
The Petya-esque Ransomware Variant
Malwarebytes’ describes the Petya-esque attack as “more powerful, professional, and dangerous than last month’s WanaCrypt0r attack.”
The new variant of this attack uses the same loopholes in the Microsoft operating system platform that were used for the EternalBlue exploit to gain control of a user’s system.
The difference with this variant of the ransomware attack is it loads it self into the boot loader of the operating system making the computer’s contents useless until a key is given at boot time to reboot into the normal operating system.
Update your Operating Systems
In this stage it is important that you, or your business, have run all of the latest Windows Updates to protect your system. Please also contact Kahnnect IT to learn how you can take advantage of great pricing to get your company online with the latest version of the real-time Malwarebytes Engine in a multi-user setup.
Protect Yourself
Should you have any questions on protecting your systems with the latest technologies in Ransomware Prevention please contact Kahnnect IT today.
Kahnnect IT can protect your business using the latest technologies including the real-time Malwarebytes Engine and the latest updates for operating systems to keep your company online.
