{"id":45888,"date":"2022-03-26T02:28:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T02:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/precursor-malware-infection-may-be-sign-youre-about-to-get-ransomware-says-startup\/"},"modified":"2022-03-26T02:28:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T02:28:04","slug":"precursor-malware-infection-may-be-sign-youre-about-to-get-ransomware-says-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/precursor-malware-infection-may-be-sign-youre-about-to-get-ransomware-says-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Precursor malware\u2019 infection may be sign you’re about to get ransomware, says startup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ransomware is among the most feared of the myriad cyberthreats circulating today, putting critical data at risk and costing some enterprises tens of millions of dollars in damage and ransoms paid. However, ransomware doesn’t occur in a vacuum, according to security startup Lumu Technologies.<\/p>\n

A ransomware infection is usually preceded by what Lumu founder and CEO Ricardo Villadiego calls “precursor malware,” essentially reconnaissance malicious code that has been around for a while and which lays the groundwork for the full ransomware campaign to come. Find and remediate that precursor malware and a company can ward off the ransomware attack is the theory.<\/p>\n

“The moment you see your network \u2013 and by network, I mean the network defined the modern times, whatever you have on premises, whatever is out in the clouds, whatever you have with your remote users \u2013 when you see any assets from your network contacting an adversarial infrastructure, eliminate that contact because that puts you in your zone of maximum resistance to attacks,” Villadiego told The Register<\/em>.<\/p>\n