Cyber and Technology Risk Management Forum, Park City, UT

THREAT TRENDS

Attachments – Ransomware-Locky files contain a macro to download. The file can be a Word document (.doc/.docx file) or an Excel workbook (.xls/.xlsx file).

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THREAT TRENDS Extortion E-mail Schemes Tied to High-Profile Data Breaches – Personal information is released to the recipient’s contacts if a ransom is not paid. The recipient is instructed to pay in Bitcoin, a virtual currency that provides a high degree of anonymity to the transactions.

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