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Breaking: Yet Another Ransomware Spreading – Petya

Posted on June 27, 2017 by ctadmin

We’re seeing reports today of a new Ransomware nasty making its way around the world. If you’re not a techie, and you see this, take a picture, despite what it says, SHUT OFF your computer, and call us. This one is called PetYa – according to sources it’s using the same attack vector as last[…]

Breaking – WannaCry ransomware attack

Posted on May 12, 2017May 15, 2017 by ctadmin

UPDATED 5/15 9AM The first wave of this attack seems to have passed – researchers believe they found a “kill switch” in the program – but we’re expecting to see new variants today. Microsoft has released an update for Windows XP to fix the vulnerability that this uses. Even with this fix XP computers are[…]