After the discovery of the banking Trojan known as Trickbot<\/a>,\nan Ohio school district was forced to cancel school since they were unable to\nfully disinfect the networks before classes resumed the following Monday.\nPreliminary reports have concluded that no students were responsible for the\nattack, as it appears to have started its data-gathering on a computer\nbelonging to the district treasurer\u2019s office. In order for classes to resume\nnormally, the IT staff for the district had to re-format nearly 1,000 affected computers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Another ransomware\nvariant<\/a>, GetCrypt, has been spotted in the\nwild that spreads itself across systems by redirecting visitors to a\ncompromised website to a separate page hosting an exploit kit. After checking\nfor several Eastern European languages, the ransomware begins encrypting all\nfiles on the system and displays a standard ransom note. In addition to\nremoving all available shadow copies from the computer, GetCrypt also appends\nall encrypted files with a randomized, four-character string based on the CPUID\nof the device itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It was recently discovered that Google\u2019s\nAssistant<\/a>, released last year, keeps a log of all online purchases for\nwhich a receipt was sent to the user\u2019s Gmail account. The \u201cPayments\u201d page on a\nuser\u2019s Google account shows transactions, flight and hotel reservations, and\nother purchases made up to several years prior, even showing the cost, date,\nand time of the purchase. <\/p>\n\n\n\nGetCrypt Spreading Through RIG Exploit Kits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Google Assistant Logs All Online Purchases<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Forbes Joins List of Magecart Victims<\/h2>\n\n\n\n