Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. Details after contacting on jabber: truniger@xmpp[.]jp.”

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

We looked at REvil, also known as Sodinokibi or Sodin, earlier in the year in a Threat Trends blog on DNS Security. However, when revisiting these metrics, we noticed that this changed in the beginning of 2021. For information on the methodology behind this chart, please see the end of the Threat Trends blog.). Deleting backups.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2021

pic.twitter.com/Iv87v9yewy — ACCEIS (@acceis) March 10, 2021. It’s too late to think about a backup plan when you find yourself needing one. — Rust (@playrust) March 10, 2021. One such company, Acceis , met the situation with an admirable sense of humour, while providing a dramatic view of the fire.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 24, 2021

As #RansomwareWeek draws to a close here on the (ISC)² blog, we turn our attention to how organizations can defend themselves. Data Backup. Back up all data as well as “every nonstandard application and its supporting IT infrastructure,” and test the backup and recovery to ensure they can handle an attack. Least Privilege.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2021

link] pic.twitter.com/9r5hA2CLNn — Colonial Pipeline (@Colpipe) May 13, 2021. The New York Rime reported that Colonial Pipeline paid the hackers almost $5 million worth of cryptocurrency to receive a decryption key that allowed it to restore the encrypted files. Please vote Security Affairs as Best Personal Blog [link].

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 24, 2022

From December 2021 through January the following year, Bernalillo County was slammed by a ransomware attack that targeted government services. If we’ll release on our blog student records/data, I’m 100% sure you will lose more than our price what we ask.”. This is a sizable increase from a 2021 average of just 44% across education.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

This blog was jointly written with Santiago Cortes. Key takeaways: The ransomware BlackCat is coded in Rust and was created in November 2021. According to these blogs, at least 10 companies may have been impacted by these ransomware campaigns in the first two weeks of February. Blog BotenaGo. Executive summary.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 30, 2021

Mespinoza originally used the.locked extension on encrypted files, and then shifted to using.pysa. PYSA is capable of exfiltrating data from its victims before encrypting the files to be ransomed. PYSA’s “leak list” blog uses a vintage MS-DOS theme and ASCII art. Leaks of exfiltrated data landed on PYSA’s blog.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 18, 2023

consumers, ages 18 and over, was conducted by Propeller Insights on behalf of HostingAdvice in June of 2021. As “The Authority on Web Hosting,” HostingAdvice.com is home to unique content and resources in the hosting industry, including: blog articles, how-to guides, reviews and the world’s best beginner’s guide.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A pivotal moment came when the FBI obtained over 7,000 decryption keys, allowing victims to unlock their encrypted data for free. Despite these setbacks, LockBit attempted to maintain its operations, quickly adapting by changing encryption methods and shifting its leak site strategy.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Well, the stats are even scarier with over 50% increase in ransomware attacks in 2021, compared to 2020. Back up your data and secure your backups in an offline location. If the data is online, then it’s accessible to bad actors and just waiting to be encrypted for ransom. Ransomware? Related: Make it costly for cybercriminals.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2022

REvil (aka Sodinokibi) first appeared in May 2020 and has been responsible for numerous high-profile ransomware attacks, including arguably the biggest ransomware attack of all time—a supply-chain attack on Kaseya VSA in July 2021 that is thought to have affected over 1,000 businesses. New gangs emerge. Ransomware attacks in April 2022.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

We have a lot of thoughts on passkeys – some of which we’ve shared in other posts in this passkey blog series – and today we’re going to explore how passkeys stack up against passwords from the perspective of cloud platforms. Google Password Manager On Android, the Google Password Manager provides backup and syncs passkeys.

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SecureList

JANUARY 16, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll explore one particular forensic artifact that stands out for uncovering some of the most elusive malware on iOS devices and shedding more light on the traces left by the sophisticated threats endangering the trusted companions in our pockets. This is not a tool – this is the nature of digital forensic artifacts.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

In this blog, we’ll home in on Conti, the strain identified by some as the successor, cousin or relative of Ryuk ransomware , due to similarities in code use and distribution tactics. The files are then held for ransom and the victim is threatened by data loss, because of the encryption, and leaking of the exfiltrated data.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In this blog, we take a deeper dive into the continuingly aggressive role Nation States will play in 2022. In May 2021 for example, the U.S. You should also maintain regular, offline backups and have an incident response plan ready. Maintaining and testing offline backups can similarly mitigate the impact of destructive malware.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

BlackMatter is a new ransomware threat discovered at the end of July 2021. The main goal of BlackMatter is to encrypt files in the infected computer and demand a ransom for decrypting them. The compile date of this sample is the 23rd of July 2021. has a compile time of 12 August 2021 and the latest version, 2.0,

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

BlackMatter is a new ransomware threat discovered at the end of July 2021. The main goal of BlackMatter is to encrypt files in the infected computer and demand a ransom for decrypting them. The compile date of this sample is the 23rd of July 2021. has a compile time of 12 August 2021 and the latest version, 2.0,

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Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It targeted Microsoft Windows operating system by encrypting the data on the victim’s machine and seeking ransom in exchange for a promise to decrypt all the encrypted files and potentially undo the damage, but that’s far from the truth, as we discuss further! billion, and in 2021 it was $20 billion.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

To ensure that their ability to restore encrypted files would never be questioned, they cultivated an online presence, wrote press releases and generally made sure their name would be known to all potential victims. For a more detailed overview we chose two of the most noteworthy Big Game Hunting ransomware in 2021. Technical details.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 30, 2022

Ransomware Evolves: Encrypting Out, Bug Bounty In [July 2022]. Ransomware attacks have proven to be enormously profitable for criminal organizations with victims paying more than $600 million in 2021, according to Chainalysis. To put that in perspective, the total number of ransomware detections for all of 2021 was 1,313.”.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Editor’s note: James Xiang and Hayden Evans contributed to this blog. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems. This concealed their attack until the environment was encrypted and backups were sabotaged. We identified “Scattered Spider” to be behind the incident.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2022

BlackByte is a full-featured ransomware family that first emerged around July 2021. The ransomware was originally written in C# and later redeveloped in the Go programming language around September 2021. BlackByte is a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) group that has been targeting corporations worldwide since July 2021.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Kia Motors, Accenture, Acer, JBS…these companies were some of the largest to be compromised by ransomware in 2021. In our 2021 Webroot BrightCloud ® Threat Report , we found overall infection rates to be rising fastest in the healthcare, non-profit and arts/entertainment/recreation industries.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 9, 2022

RagnarLocker can be recognized by the extension of the encrypted files which contains “.RGNR_<ID>,” txt” and states the files and data have been encrypted by RAGNAR_LOCKER. The malware then attempts to silently delete all Volume Shadow Copies, preventing user recovery of encrypted files. Threat profile. RGNR_[extension].txt”

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

Though this partnership, our research led us to discover five previously unreported vulnerabilities in the medical system which include: CVE-2021-33886 – Use of Externally-Controlled Format String (CVSS 7.7). CVE-2021-33885 – Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity (CVSS 9.7). Braun on January 11, 2021.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Ransomware has a public/private key encryption to make your data unreadable. In theory, ransomware may encrypt a file of any type. However, some files on your computer are encrypted more often than others. Ransomcloud is a special ransom malware, designed to encrypt cloud emails and attachments. How Does Ransomware Work?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 24, 2022

In a blog post detailing its efforts to track and contain the breach, Microsoft described LAPSUS$ as a “large scale social engineering and extortion campaign.” Though their attacks accelerated in March, LAPSUS$ first became active in 2021. On March 22, Microsoft confirmed a substantial breach by the LAPSUS$ hacking group.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Wed, 09/29/2021 - 10:01. Recovery becomes costly as businesses suffer the majority of their losses through lost productivity, and backups don’t preclude expensive recovery. Sep 29, 2021. million in 2021. Backups Only Address a Small Part of Ransomware Recovery . Downtime: The Real Cost Of Ransomware.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

Hive ransomware, a RaaS launched in June 2021, was also busy in March. To add insult to injury, REvil (aka Sodonokibi) appeared to return in April with new payloads and a fresh leak blog featuring a mixture of recent and old victims. Ransoms were 36 percent higher in 2021 than in 2020 at an average of $6.1 To pay or not to pay.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 9, 2023

The gang's blog suggests it's open to targeting businesses of all sizes, so long as they aren't located in "Latin America, Africa, or other colonized countries." The RA Group employs an encryptor derived from the leaked source code of Babuk ransomware, an operation that ceased in 2021. Stop malicious encryption.

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Cisco Security

JULY 14, 2021

And once they’ve found their way into your business and encrypted your data and files, ransomware operators will demand substantial sums of money to restore them. For example, they will compromise backup systems so that administrators cannot use them to restore data. Store backups offline so they cannot be found by cyber intruders.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Tue, 09/28/2021 - 06:42. In a recent blog I wrote for ISACA ransomware attacks have been on the rise , resulting in data extortion threats and IT system compromises. Enterprises historically have rolled out too many single purpose data encryption tools. Encrypting sensitive data. Data Security: Simplicity is Your Ally.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Crypto ransomware encrypts the data on your computer or in the cloud. However, you can not use encrypted data. Encrypting ransomware is much harder to deal with, as you can not get access to your data simply by switching devices or finding a way to pass a screen lock. Backup is a copy of your data stored separately.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A malformed software update also affected Kaseya's clients in 2021. For the purpose of this blog, we're excluding hardware supply chain attack mitigations. And while approval is pending, a separate group creates offline backups of essential files that are needed in the event of an error and affected systems need restoring.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 4, 2022

The Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) originally designed the ACME protocol for its own Let’s Encrypt certificate service. The previous version, ACME v1, was deprecated on June 1st, 2021. On September 15, 2021, the DNS records for acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org CA agility with flexibility to add and support backup CAs.

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

Complex attacks almost invariably feature several phases, such as reconnaissance, initial access to the infrastructure, gaining access to target systems and/or privileges, and the actual malicious acts (data theft, destruction or encryption, etc.). 2TB of 2020-2021 data: credentials related to banking accounts and the most popular services.

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