Ransomware

Prevent, Detect and Disarm BEC-Initiated Wire Fraud (Mis-Payment) Attacks

May 19, 2023 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

After reading the recent FBI report on the state of email related cybercrime in 2022, one statistic popped out at me, when correlating different parts of the report related to Business Email Compromise and Ransomware. 

Top Three FBI-Special-Agent Speaker Insights on BEC

May 05, 2023 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

We’ve had a few days of insightful discussions at the world’s largest legal IT security event, ILTA LegalSEC. Since many of you are not able to (or not in the right frame of mind to) travel to beautiful Baltimore to experience this event live, I thought I would dedicate this week’s Tech Essentials to sharing the top three FBI-special-agent speaker insights (from my perspective).

How to Prevent Cybercrimes Before They Potentially Happen

August 05, 2022 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

RMail’s AI enhancements are more in line with PRE-crime detection vs. e-security risk mitigation. As sophisticated cybercriminal lures become ever more ubiquitous, and the consequence of a hook-and-steal situation more costly and disruptive (think mis-wiring funds and ransomware), we at Tech Essentials are spotting a new trend very much rooted in science fiction.

Even More (Truly Scary) E-Security Human Errors that Can Cause Pain

October 29, 2021 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

Last week we highlighted two of the top five e-security human errors that can cause pain for professionals, so we’re here now to finish out the list. As you may recall, there are some mistakes that can be forgiven in the workplace (although microwaving leftover fish at 10 am is fairly borderline). However, there are those […]

Your Email Remains Private Even When in Recipient’s Inbox

August 23, 2021 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

Get Some Rest (for Your Files) for the Rest of Your Summer As we head into one of the summer’s final weekends, I’m doing the usual exercise of wondering where all the time went. This certainly was not a restful summer for the world what with Delta variants, ransomware attacks, record-setting wildfires and now hurricanes […]

Protect Yourself from Ransomware Attacks. Get RMail!

August 16, 2021 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

Don’t Be Like 7sdf8dxz0sjh-3. Get RMail. Did you hear the one about the guy who couldn’t remember his “unhackable” Gmail password, so he changed his name to 7sdf8dxz0sjh-3? Now that you’ve stopped laughing uncontrollably, we can talk about something slightly more sobering: A new ransomware attack will occur every 11 seconds this year according to […]

Layers of Protection Against Cyberattacks and Peace of Mind to Users

August 02, 2021 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

RMail — DDT for Ransomware Attackers Ransomware is again in the news—this time in terms of what state and local governments are actively doing to prevent it. At least three US states—New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania—are considering legislation that would ban state and local government agencies from paying ransom if they’re attacked by cyber […]

Why Ransomware Attacks are on The Rise and How to Stop Them

July 19, 2021 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

Ransomware Attacks Won’t Die–Just Multiply Ransomware has become such a hot topic with a seemingly new case every day that we thought we would pick up where we left off last week…

Ransomware-As-a-Service a Big Problem for Small & Large Businesses

July 12, 2021 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

We Predicted the Death of Ransomware in 2017. Oh, Time Machines. We first wrote about Ransomware attacks in Tech Essentials in 2017 – back when a Bitcoin was valued at $1800 (oh, the good old days). The crux of the article was that many victims were paying their ransom to the cyber perpetrators, but they […]

The Death of Ransomware?

May 18, 2017 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

(WCry) was successful in infecting over 300,000 computers in 150 countries. It is likely the worst ransomware attack to date. WCry works by locking the files with encryption on each device. Victims are promised a decryption key to unlock their files once they pay a ransom of $300 in Bitcoin.