{"id":90,"date":"2016-07-05T14:04:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T14:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esolutions.lt\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2017-06-16T09:30:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T09:30:50","slug":"fbi-warns-organizations-of-a-notorious-samsam-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esolutions.lt\/blog\/fbi-warns-organizations-of-a-notorious-samsam-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI warns organizations of a notorious SamSam ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If FBI issues a warning about a specific virus, it means that it is rather a serious menace than\u00a0a simple cyber threat. According to its\u00a0latest report, schools, hospitals, and similar organizations should be especially careful with a data-encrypting virus called SamSam ransomware which has already attacked MedStar hospital in the US. In exchange for a decryption key, SamSam asked it to pay 45 Bitcoins or $18,500. Fortunately, MedStar has a backup, so its authorities didn&#8217;t have to pay a ransom, but this is not a typical scenario. Typically, victims either pay the money and wait for a decryption key (which sometimes fails to arrive!) or face the loss of their data.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2-spyware.com\/remove-samsam-ransomware-virus.html\">SamSam ransomware<\/a>\u00a0doesn&#8217;t require users&#8217; interaction when it tries to infiltrate the system. According to security experts, it targets servers thru\u00a0JBoss vulnerability. For that, it uses a special tool called JexBoss, which is known as an open-source penetration testing tool. Unfortunately, but there is nothing much to do while trying to prevent SamSam. The most important thing to protect yourself is to backup your data.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91\" src=\"http:\/\/esolutions.lt\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hospital-encrypted-by-samsam-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"This job isn't always easy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esolutions.lt\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hospital-encrypted-by-samsam-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esolutions.lt\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hospital-encrypted-by-samsam-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esolutions.lt\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hospital-encrypted-by-samsam-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esolutions.lt\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hospital-encrypted-by-samsam-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If FBI issues a warning about a specific virus, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esolutions.lt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esolutions.lt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esolutions.lt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esolutions.lt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esolutions.lt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esolutions.lt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/esolutions.lt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esolutions.lt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esolutions.lt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esolutions.lt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}