Ransomware Gangs Don’t Need PR Help in Internet security

We’ve seen an ugly trend recently of tech new stories and cyber security trumpeting claims of ransomware attacks Install Avg With License Number activation on companies large avg.com/retail   and small, apparently based on little more than the say-so of the ransomware gangs themselves avg internet security. Such coverage is potentially www.avg.com/activate quite harmful and plays deftly into the hands of organized crime.

Often the rationale behind couching these events as newsworthy is that the attacks involve publicly traded companies or recognizable avg.com/retail   brands, and that investors and the public have a right to know. But absent any additional information from the victim company or their partners who may be affected by the attack, these kinds of stories and blog posts look a great deal like ambulance chasing and sensationalism Install Avg With License Number activation.

Currently, more than a dozen ransomware crime gangs have erected their own blogs to publish sensitive data from victims. A few of these blogs routinely issue self-serving press releases, some of which gallingly refer to victims as “clients” and cast themselves in a beneficent light. Usually, the blog posts that appear on ransom sites are little more than a teaser — screenshots of claimed access to computers avg internet security, or a handful of documents that expose www.avg.com/activate proprietary or financial information.

The goal behind the publication of these teasers is clear, and the ransomware gangs make no bones about it: To publicly pressure the victim company avg.com/retail   into paying up. Those that refuse to be extorted are told to expect that huge amounts of sensitive company data will be published online or sold on the dark web (or both).

Emboldened by their successes, several ransomware gangs recently have started demanding two ransoms: One payment to secure Install Avg With License Number activation a digital key avg internet security that can unlock files, folders and directories encrypted by their malware, and a second to avoid having any stolen information published or shared with others.

KrebsOnSecurity has sought to highlight ransomware incident at companies whose core business involves providing Install Avg With License Number activation technical services to others — particularly managed service providers that have done an exceptionally www.avg.com/activate poor job communicating about the attack with their customers.

Overall, I’ve tried to use each story to call attention to key failures that frequently give rise to ransomware infections, and to offer www.avg.com/activate information avg.com/retail   about how other companies can avoid a similar fate.

But simply parroting what professional extortionists have posted on their blog about victims of cybercrime smacks of providing aid Install Avg With License Number activation and comfort  www.avg.com/activate to an  avg internet security enemy that needs and deserves neither.