Today's issue includes events affecting Australia, China, European Union, Germany, Netherlands, Russia, United Kingdom, United States, and and Zimbabwe.

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Should you be hit by ransomware (which heaven forfend) what should you do about it?

"The very first thing that is actually a little bit counterintuitive is to leave the ransomware alone, meaning don't delete the ransomware file that you double-clicked. Don't do anything with that. And the reason being is quite simple - to have a chance to get your files back, if we can't readily determine what kind of ransomware you got hit by, we will have to take a look at the actual file that you executed and that infected your system. If you deleted that file or if you got rid of it somehow, then that process becomes way, way more difficult because, in that case, we would have to try to find the ransomware file ourselves.... Now, the next step is you have to figure out kind of what kind of ransomware you got hit by. And don't trust the ransomware telling you its real name. There have been so many cases where there are copycats that try to imitate bigger and more professional campaigns. For example, like, one of the biggest ransomware campaigns was CryptoLocker, for example. There have been so many ransomware that had nothing to do with CryptoLocker that just pretended to be CryptoLocker. So don't trust anything the ransom note says. Don't trust anything the ransomware may display to you."

—Fabian Wosar of Emsisoft, on Hacking Humans, 10.10.19.

And then look for decryptors, but from security firms, not from the crooks. And, of course, take good care of your backups. You had those all along, right?