The Crypsis Group, which specializes in delivering cyber security incident response, risk management, and digital forensics services to companies and organizations of all sizes, today announced it has appointed Art Ehuan, a seasoned cyber security practitioner with a criminal investigations background, to join its senior management team as vice president.

“However, Crypsis, the company that is helping the city through the hack, says most of its clients aren’t so lucky.

It’s unfortunate that many times that’s what we do is help them pay the ransom” says Bret Padres, the CEO of Crypsis. “The hackers are getting better and better at ways to make ransomware effective.”

McLean, VA  - In response to accelerating demand for its cyber security services, The Crypsis Group announced today that it is expanding its offices in New York City and Austin and adding key leadership personnel in both locations.

Before leaving on a trip, Sam Rubin, a vice president of the Crypsis Group, a cybersecurity consulting firm, advises all travelers, regardless of the size of their employer, to make sure their laptops are encrypted...

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MCLEAN, VA – As cyber attacks on government and private sector networks continue to expand and evolve, The Crypsis Group announced today that it has appointed a leading digital crime investigations practitioner as a senior director of its consulting team at its Washington, DC-area headquarters.

The group was also known for meticulously encrypting its victims’ data, manually from file to file; changing file names to “I’m sorry”; demanding high ransom payments in Bitcoin; and giving victims only a week to pay before they made their data permanently inaccessible, according to major security firms like Symantec, the Crypsis Group and others.

“The extent and volume of information that they were able to obtain in these subpoenas goes beyond the capabilities of an individual,” Sam Rubin, a vice president of the Crypsis Group cybersecurity firm, says in Lake’s report. “It’s set up in a systematic manner, to be shared by what appears to be a team.”

The scale of the operation, as well as the targets, suggest this was a state operation. “The extent and volume of information that they were able to obtain in these subpoenas goes beyond the capabilities of an individual,” said Sam Rubin, a vice president of...