eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

With lateral movement across a victim’s IT infrastructure, threat actors can escalate privileges, spread malware , extract data , and disrupt IT services as with ransomware attacks. SamSam Ransomware: Malware Specializing in RDP. As long as actors go undetected, the timing of attacks is on the perpetrator’s terms.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. 2009-2013 — Roman Seleznev — Roman Seleznev hacks into more than 500 businesses and 3,700 financial institutions in the U.S., He is arrested and sentenced to 20 months in prison.

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

Cisco Security

MAY 12, 2022

Their activities can be traced back as early as 2013, prior to Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. Therefore, DNS and outgoing web traffic is crucial for its detection. 2] Conti ransomware’s internal chats leaked after siding with Russia: [link]. [3] Figure 1: IP address resolutions of gorigan[.]ru.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Do you feel confident that everyone in your organization could identify a phishing email that contained ransomware? Phishing is a standard method of delivering malware, including ransomware. For example, imagine a ransomware email that goes out to 1 million recipients and achieves a 1% success rate. billion in losses.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

The following day, Avast Threat Research announced the discovery of new Golang ransomware in Ukraine , which they dubbed HermeticRansom. Due to its unsophisticated style and poor implementation, this new ransomware was probably only a smokescreen for the HermeticWiper attack, due to its non-sophisticated style and poor implementation.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Currently Trickbot is focused on penetration and distribution over the local network, providing other malware (such as Ryuk ransomware ) with access to the infected system, though that’s not the only functionality it supports. It retrieves the DNS names of all the directory trees in the local computer’s forest.

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Banking Passwords VPN Internet 140

ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

I first met Dan when he was literally saving the world; okay, at least saving the internet as we know it today by disclosing to the major ISPs in the world a flaw he’d found in the Domain Name System or DNS. VAMOSI:So we talk about it being more secure and you make some reference to ransomware. They'll eventually stop.

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