Cybercrime group FIN7 targets Veeam backup servers
CSO Magazine
APRIL 28, 2023
Researchers warn that a financially motivated cybercrime group known as FIN7 is compromising Veeam Backup & Replication servers and deploying malware on them.
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CSO Magazine
APRIL 28, 2023
Researchers warn that a financially motivated cybercrime group known as FIN7 is compromising Veeam Backup & Replication servers and deploying malware on them.
CyberSecurity Insiders
JANUARY 6, 2023
Many of these attacks took advantage of known vulnerabilities and security misconfigurations in storage and backup systems. And backup and storage systems are rife with unpatched CVEs. Slow Gains on Storage and Backup Security. Make it extremely difficult to tamper with backups and exfiltrate data.
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CyberSecurity Insiders
AUGUST 28, 2022
Growth is propelled not only by the surge in the number of cybercrime groups specializing in ransomware, but to a large extent, also by the continual increase in attack sophistication. Breaking The Myths: Storage, Backup, And Data Recoverability. A few years ago, very few CISOs thought that storage & backups were important.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Protect Your Organization from Cybercrime-as-a-Service Attacks madhav Thu, 10/12/2023 - 04:53 In years gone by, only large enterprises needed to be concerned with cybercrime. However, Cybercrime-as-a-Service (CaaS) offerings have essentially democratized cybercrime. What is Cybercrime-as-a-Service?
Security Affairs
JUNE 16, 2023
An updated version of the Android remote access trojan GravityRAT can steal WhatsApp backup files and can delete files ESET researchers discovered an updated version of Android GravityRAT spyware that steals WhatsApp backup files and can delete files. The malware is distributed as the messaging apps BingeChat and Chatico.
Malwarebytes
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
The report follows the Internet Organized Crime Assessment (IOCTA), Europol’s assessment of the cybercrime landscape and how it has changed over the last 24 months. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. Don’t get attacked twice.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Researchers attribute the Raspberry Robin malware to the Russian cybercrime group known as Evil Corp group. IBM Security X-Force researchers discovered similarities between a component used in the Raspberry Robin malware and a Dridex malware loader, which was part of the malicious operations of the cybercrime gang Evil Corp.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 24, 2023
GoTo is notifying customers that its development environment was breached in November 2022, attackers stole customers’ backups and encryption key. We also have evidence that a threat actor exfiltrated an encryption key for a portion of the encrypted backups.” ” reads an update provided by the company.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 22, 2021
FIN7 is a Russian criminal group that has been active since mid-2015, it focuses on restaurants, gambling, and hospitality industries in the US to harvest financial information that was used in attacks or sold in cybercrime marketplaces. At the time of the report, some of the HTTP 404 errors remain unfixed. ” concludes the report.
Herjavec Group
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Ransomware, the fastest-growing type of cybercrime, will claim a new victim? Sadly, in 2020, we saw the first instance of human loss as a direct result of cybercrime – ransomware to be exact. As I close out my last Cyber CEO for Cybercrime Magazine, I will leave you with this: Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 23, 2020
This is new from Reuters: More than two years ago, Apple told the FBI that it planned to offer users end-to-end encryption when storing their phone data on iCloud, according to one current and three former FBI officials and one current and one former Apple employee.
Krebs on Security
MAY 13, 2024
This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years. was used by a Russian-speaking member called Pin on the English-language cybercrime forum Opensc. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.
SecureList
JUNE 26, 2023
Make regular backups of essential data to ensure that corporate information stays safe in an emergency. Keep it up to date and remove access if the employee has left the company or no longer needs the data. Use cloud access security broker software that can help manage and monitor employees’ cloud activity and enforce security policies.
Malwarebytes
JULY 8, 2022
One of the biggest problems in the cybercrime section of the report relates to backups. Specifically: The lack of backups when dealing with hacking incidents. Backups in Brazil: An uphill struggle. Backups are an essential backstop that can help against several forms of attack, as well as mistakes and mishaps.
Adam Levin
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
In a joint cybersecurity advisory with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the FBI warned of an “increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. Using air-gapped and password protected backups. hospitals and healthcare providers.”. Using multi factor authentication.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 13, 2024
The Finish National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC-FI) warns of increased Akira ransomware attacks targeting NAS and tape backup devices of organizations in the country. Threat actors are wiping NAS and backup devices. They also explained that organizations can protect against the destruction of backups taking offline backups.
Krebs on Security
JULY 29, 2022
These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. re servers, data and backups of that data.
Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 8, 2022
.” While CLOP as a money making collective is a fairly young organization, security experts say CLOP members hail from a group of Threat Actors (TA) known as “TA505,” which MITRE’s ATT&CK database says is a financially motivated cybercrime group that has been active since at least 2014. ” . ”
SecureWorld News
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
By co-opting the ransomware group's own communication channels, police aimed to sow doubts in the cybercrime community reliant on LockBit's tools and services. However, it claimed critical systems like ransom payment tracking remained unaffected due to backups. Nonetheless.
Hacker Combat
JANUARY 3, 2022
Cyberattacks on companies have been on the rise, and IT teams have to safeguard their systems and ensure proper backups are available should they be infiltrated. The post Norwegian Media Behemoth is the Latest Victim of Cybercrime appeared first on Hacker Combat.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 9, 2021
The same sources who shared those figures say the victim list has grown considerably since then, with many victims compromised by multiple cybercrime groups. “We strongly recommend saving an offline backup of your Exchange server’s emails immediately, and refer back to the site for additional information on patching and remediation.”
eSecurity Planet
APRIL 24, 2023
Cybercrime has skyrocketed in the last few years, and the websites of small and medium-sized companies have been the most frequent target of web attacks. Offsite backups SPanel accounts also get free daily backups to a remote server. The user interface also features a Backup manager that enables users to do manual backups.
Security Affairs
MAY 12, 2024
Recommendations provided in the report include installing updates promptly, using phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA), securing remote access software, making backups, and applying mitigations from the #StopRansomware Guide.
Spinone
DECEMBER 17, 2018
G Suite for Education backup and security should be taken seriously as GSFE (formerly known as Google Apps for Education) puts creative, nimble, and flexible learning at the center of the educational experience. How to Ensure G Suite for Education Backup and Security? What is Google G Suite for Education (GSFE)?
Security Affairs
APRIL 14, 2023
The threat actors also attempted to sell the stolen data on the BreachForums cybercrime forum that was recently shut down by law enforcement. The account was used to create database backups which were then downloaded and deleted. It also downloaded existing nightly full-backups of the database.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 2, 2020
Lawrence Abrams , editor of the computer help and news Web site BleepingComputer , said while some ransomware groups have a history of selling victim data on cybercrime forums, this latest move by REvil may be just another tactic used by criminals to force victims to negotiate a ransom payment.
Malwarebytes
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Since then, cybercrime group specialists from the North Rhine-Westphalia State Criminal Police Office (LKA NRW), together with the Cybercrime Central and Contact Point (ZAC NRW), carried out another targeted strike against people associated with the criminal network. Create offsite, offline backups.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
ValidCC , a dark web bazaar run by a cybercrime group that for more than six years hacked online merchants and sold stolen payment card data, abruptly closed up shop last week. Group-IB believes UltraRank is responsible for a slew of hacks that other security firms previously attributed to at least three distinct cybercrime groups.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 13, 2024
The Finish National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC-FI) warns of increased Akira ransomware attacks targeting NAS and tape backup devices of organizations in the country. Threat actors are wiping NAS and backup devices. They also explained that organizations can protect against the destruction of backups taking offline backups.
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 8, 2024
In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a
Security Affairs
APRIL 9, 2023
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SecureWorld News
JANUARY 19, 2023
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Security Affairs
MAY 26, 2024
million individuals North Korea-linked Kimsuky used a new Linux backdoor in recent attacks International Press – Newsletter Cybercrime Healthcare company WebTPA discloses breach affecting 2.5
IT Security Guru
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
From protecting sensitive corporate data to safeguarding our personal information, the battle against cybercrime is ongoing. Regular Backups and Updates: Consistent and regular backups ensure that you can recover your data in the event of an attack.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
The researchers have yet to determine if the threat actors behind 3AM are linked to known cybercrime groups. The ransomware is a 64-bit executable that supports multiple commands to stop applications to perform backups and security software. The malware appends the extension.threeamtime to the filenames of encrypted files.
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
.” New York City-based cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint said the Snatch ransomware group was created in 2018, based on Truniger’s recruitment both on Russian language cybercrime forums and public Russian programming boards. “Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
To be prepared for cyber incidents, organizations should maintain offline backups of data, and regularly maintain backup and restoration, ensure all backup data is encrypted, immutable and cover the entire organization’s data infrastructure, and ensure their backup data is not already infected.
Security Affairs
MARCH 12, 2023
This week a threat actor, who goes online with the moniker “kernelware”, claimed the theft of data from technology firm Acronis and started leaking it on the cybercrime forum Breached Forums. The CISO of Acronis downplayed a recent intrusion, revealing that only one customer was impacted.
Security Affairs
MARCH 4, 2023
The dump was released on February 28, it was published through the Russian-speaking cybercrime forum XSS. The decision to release free samples aims at attracting new customers and gain notoriety in the cybercrime ecosystem. million payment card data dating from 2019 to 2022 on a cybercrime forum. An archive containing 2.1
Webroot
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Afterall, the dark web is where most cybercrimes get their start. They’ve created a new model for cybercrime where criminal specialists sell their talents to the highest bidder. But while you won’t find yourself in the dark web by accident, it’s important to know what it is and how you can protect yourself from it.
Spinone
AUGUST 20, 2018
Let’s discuss OS and software, antivirus, backup, mobile security, physical security and so on. G Suite Backup At least, use a separate ciphered external hard disk. Alternatively, choose an outside backup-provider for automated daily backup. The post How to Avoid Becoming a Cybercrime Victim.
Malwarebytes
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
The potential riches are enormous and there’s no other form of cybercrime that’s so lucrative, so why aren’t we seeing more attacks? These attacks extorted more than $1 billion in ransoms in 2023, according to blockchain data platform Chainalysis.
Malwarebytes
JANUARY 25, 2024
In how far new moves on the front of a United Nations Cybercrime Treaty will have a short-term effect on the behavior of state-sponsored groups is very hard to predict. Which means that for the visible part of cybercrime, the landscape is not likely to change dramatically. Create offsite, offline backups.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 2, 2022
re abruptly announced it was permanently closing after a cybersecurity breach allowed unknown intruders to trash its servers and delete customer data and backups. Last week, a seven-year-old proxy service called 911[.]re The disruption at 911[.]re Such was the case again with SocksEscort. ” Super-socks[.]biz
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