Introducing Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware Beta

a completely proactive and signature-less technology that is able to detect and block even the most dangerous of ransomware variants like CryptoWall4, CryptoLocker, Tesla, and CTB-Locker. Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware monitors all activity in the computer and identifies actions which are typical of ransomware activity. It keeps track of all activity and, once it has enough evidence Read more about Introducing Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware Beta[…]

Bitdefender limited Anti Ransomware Tool

Bitdefender Anti-Ransomware prevents the following families of ransomware from encrypting your files: CTB-Locker, Locky, Pertya, and TeslaCrypt. Bitdefender cannot guarantee the effectiveness of the tool against different strains of ransomware, nor be held liable for the loss of sensitive data. Source: Anti Ransomware Tool Shame…

Cryptostalker, a Tool to Detect Crypto-Ransomware on Linux

Cryptostalker and the original project randumb are the work of Sean Williams, a developer from San Francisco. Mr. Williams wanted to create a tool that monitored the filesystem for newly written files, and if the files contained random data, the sign of encrypted content, and they were written at high speed, it would alert the Read more about Cryptostalker, a Tool to Detect Crypto-Ransomware on Linux[…]

The No More Ransom Project: tools and howtos to decrypt ransomware from the EU

Law enforcement and IT Security companies have joined forces to disrupt cybercriminal businesses with ransomware connections. The “No More Ransom” website is an initiative by the National High Tech Crime Unit of the Netherlands’ police, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre and two cyber security companies – Kaspersky Lab and Intel Security – with the goal to Read more about The No More Ransom Project: tools and howtos to decrypt ransomware from the EU[…]

Cybereason Introduces: Free Behavioral-Based Ransomware Blocking

Edit: It seems that this system creates a whole load of bogus files and dirs and monitors them, not the whole file system. This pollutes the file system and means that people can quite easily write around it. Every ransomware program goes over files, chooses the ones that look interesting, encrypts them and destroys the Read more about Cybereason Introduces: Free Behavioral-Based Ransomware Blocking[…]

Don’t smile too big to be effective in online marketing ads, study funds

“We found that broad smiles lead people to be perceived as warmer but less competent,” said Jessica Li, a KU assistant professor of marketing in the School of Business. “We ask how that can influence consumer behavior and in what situations might marketers want to smile more broadly.” […] Li said broader smiles that tend Read more about Don’t smile too big to be effective in online marketing ads, study funds[…]

Scientists create first stable semisynthetic organism

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have announced the development of the first stable semisynthetic organism. Building on their 2014 study in which they synthesized a DNA base pair, the researchers created a new bacterium that uses the four natural bases (called A, T, C and G), which every living organism possesses, but that Read more about Scientists create first stable semisynthetic organism[…]