Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

There are a lot of those because the ZeuS banking Trojan source code was leaked in 2011, and so there’s been plenty of time for several new variants to emerge. Zloader has a Domain Generating Algorithm (DGA) embedded within the malware that creates additional domains as a fallback or backup communication channel for the botnet.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

Incident Insights Recently, there has been a significant increase in ransomware attacks targeting companies in northern Europe. However, the company was able to restore its network from backups and no client workstations were affected during the intrusions.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Given how lucrative and necessary both sectors are to daily life, they make prime targets for ransomware. In 2020 alone, 79 ransomware attacks were conducted against government entities in the U.S., costing an estimated $18.88 Much like other fields of tech, cyber crime is also constantly evolving.

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Spinone

JUNE 28, 2020

According to the True Cost of Compliance with Data Protection Regulations , a recent study sponsored by Globalscape and independently conducted by Ponemon Institute, since 2011 there has been a 45% increase in non-compliance costs. This results in lost revenue that can last for years.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2022

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) disclosed on Friday that students may have had their data taken in a ransomware incident involving one of its vendors. The ransomware attack happened last December at Battelle for Kids (BfK), based in Columbus Ohio, which develops services to provide innovation in schools for students and teachers.

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

WastedLocker is a new ransomware locker we’ve detected being used since May 2020. Evil Corp were previously associated to the Dridex malware and BitPaymer ransomware, the latter came to prominence in the first half of 2017. The new WastedLocker ransomware appeared in May 2020 (a technical description is included below).

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Visitors crowd a cloud computing presentation at the CeBIT technology trade fair on March 2, 2011 in Hanover, Germany. They’re also looking to expand Arcserve’s ransomware protection offerings to StorageCraft users. Sean Gallup/Getty Images). They expect to finalize the deal in the coming weeks following regulatory approval.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Several threat actor groups, including those that use ransomware, have been pivoting to this attack scheme before 2013, and occurrences of such attacks have only gone up exponentially through the years. Create and test offline backups Speaking of backups, never assume they work.

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