Troll Ransomware: Third-Party Patch Update

What is Troll Ransomware?

This year has had many major ransomware and data breach events. From BitPaymer to the Equifax Hack, when the news hasn’t been dominated by Trump, it’s been focused on cybersecurity.

This has clearly caught the attention of the dark web. In just the past month, many new ‘troll’ ransomware variants have been discovered. These variants mimic some of the major players from this year, such as WannaCry.The difference, however, is no data gets encrypted. They appear to exist just to cause panic and make the victim believe they are compromised when they really aren’t.

As is common with internet trolls, this creates confusion and frustration. How do you know if you are a victim of WannaCry or just an imposter? And how easy would it be for these trolls to go from upsetting prank to true ransomware attackers?The best way to protect yourself is to implement a thorough patching strategy. Utilizing a solution like Syxsense facilitates smooth patch deployments. Set up automated patching tasks to ensure that when critical updates are released they get deployed to devices that need them. Patching removes exploits that ransomware tends to target.

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November Third-Party Patch Updates

Below is a list of 3^rd Party Software Updates for the month:

Vendor	Category	Patch Version and Release Notes Link:
Adobe	Media Software	Flash, AIR, and ActiveX: 27.0.0.187 – https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/release-note/fp_27_air_27_release_notes.html   Shockwave: 12.3.1.201 – https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/shockwave/apsb17-40.html
Apache	Word Processor	OpenOffice: 4.1.4 – https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software-foundation-announces19
Apple	Media Software	iTunes: 12.7.1 – https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1814?locale=en_US
Citrix	Data Delivery	Receiver: 4.10 – https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/receiver/windows/current-release.html
FileZilla	FTP Solution	3.29 – https://filezilla-project.org/versions.php
Foxit	PDF Reader	Reader: 9.0 – https://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf-reader/version-history.php
Google	Browser	Chrome: 62.0.3202.97 – https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/11/stable-channel-update-for-chrome-os_15.html
Malware Bytes	Malware Defender	3.3.1 – https://www.malwarebytes.com/support/releasehistory/
Mozilla	Brower and Email Client	Firefox: 57 – https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/57.0/releasenotes/ Thunderbird: 52.5.0 – https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/52.5.0/releasenotes/
Wireshark	Network Protocol Analyzer	2.4.2 – https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-2.4.2.html

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