The Week in Ransomware – August 9th 2019 – Summer Doldrums

By Lawrence Abrams – As we creep towards the end of the summer, things have started to thankfully slow down a bit.

While there are still plenty of ransomware attacks going around, the amount we had seen last month against schools, companies, and government agencies has definitely decreased.

The biggest news was a wiper called GermanWiper targeting Germany and pretending to be a ransomware. Otherwise, for this week we mostly saw new variants of existing ransomware being released. Read On:

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