CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 26, 2022

One of the most ruthless cyberattacks is a ransomware attack. What Is a Ransomware Attack? Ransomware is a cyberattack that uses malware – software created to infiltrate a computer system and damage or disrupt it. Ransomware attacks are about as old as the internet itself.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Earlier this week, KrebsOnSecurity revealed that the darknet website for the Snatch ransomware group was leaking data about its users and the crime gang’s internal operations. It continues: “Prior to deploying the ransomware, Snatch threat actors were observed spending up to three months on a victim’s system.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Department of Justice today announced the arrest of Ukrainian man accused of deploying ransomware on behalf of the REvil ransomware gang, a Russian-speaking cybercriminal collective that has extorted hundreds of millions from victim organizations. The DOJ also said it had seized $6.1 Vasinskyi was arrested Oct. 3 was Lublin, Poland.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

After a good start, the Internet-enabled, technological revolution we are living through has hit some bumps in the road. To celebrate Independence Day we want to draw your attention to five technologies that could improve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on the Internet. And yet almost every Internet account requires one.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S. 25, 2013, two days before Target said the breach officially began, Rescator could be seen in instant messages hiring another forum member to verify 400,000 payment cards that Rescator claimed were freshly stolen. At the time, Ika also was the administrator of Pustota[.]pw

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

Stunning as these two high-profile attacks were, they do not begin to convey the full scope of what a pervasive and destructive phenomenon ransomware has become – to individuals, to companies of all sizes and, lately, to poorly defended local agencies. Probing and plundering Ransomware is highly resilient and flexible.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 15, 2021

X remote access devices that they have been made aware of an imminent ransomware campaign using stolen credentials. In its report, SonicWall reports that ransomware attacks are being launched against these products using a known vulnerability in the 8.x SSL-VPN 200/2000/400 (EOL 2013/2014) disconnect immediately and reset passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. Jump to: What is ransomware? How ransomware works. Preventing ransomware. Ransomware attacks and costs.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Among those is CVE-2022-22005 , a weakness in Microsoft’s Sharepoint Server versions 2013-2019 that could be exploited by any authenticated user. One important item to note this week is that Microsoft announced it will start blocking Internet macros by default in Office.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Previously, it was acquired by FireEye in December 2013 for $1 billion and in March this year, the internet juggernaut announced it will acquire the security firm for $5.4 In May 2021, the White House tasked Mandiant to investigate the ransomware attack on fuel supply operator Colonial Pipeline.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Ransomware review: June 2022 AstraLocker 2.0

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SecureList

APRIL 23, 2021

Kaspersky has been following the ransomware landscape for years. In the past, we’ve published yearly reports on the subject: PC ransomware in 2014-2016 , Ransomware in 2016-2017 , and Ransomware and malicious crypto miners in 2016-2018. Was ransomware, in fact, a dying species of malware? What was happening?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Rarely do cybercriminal gangs that deploy ransomware gain the initial access to the target themselves. In this post we’ll look at the clues left behind by “ Babam ,” the handle chosen by a cybercriminal who has sold such access to ransomware groups on many occasions over the past few years. com , and portalsagepay[.]com.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 16, 2020

Ransomware continues to endure as a highly lucrative criminal enterprise. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35 organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. To get a foot in the door, ransomware purveyors direct weaponized email at a targeted employee. million from U.S. Here are key excerpts.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

On the modern Internet, malware is a near-constant presence. Ransomware, for example, usually doesn’t self-replicate. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the precursor of the modern Internet we know, love, and sometimes hate. Worms and the Dawn of the Internet Age: 1987-2000.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2021

The long-running Breadcrumbs series here tracks how cybercriminals get caught, and it’s mostly through odd connections between their online and offline selves scattered across the Internet. Further reading: Who’s Behind the GandCrab Ransomware?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

In March 2013, several impossibly massive waves of nuisance requests – peaking as high as 300 gigabytes per second— swamped Spamhaus , knocking the anti-spam organization off line for extended periods. DNS resolvers were the early building blocks of the internet: they resolved a domain names, such as spamhaus.org, to a specific IP address.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows. Yahoo data breach (2013). Summary: Yahoo believes that "state-sponsored actors" compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014. Target data breach (2013). MySpace data breach (2013).

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Doctor Chaos

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Created in 2013, the framework documents in detail countless cyberattack strategies. When employees aren’t protected by office firewalls, they are at the mercy of whatever defenses their Internet and devices have. Phishing attacks and ransomware attacks surged the most.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

“Given the interest that cybercriminals — especially ransomware initial access brokers — have in RDP, it is likely that it will be exploited at some point,” said Allan Liska , senior security architect at Recorded Future. The flaws let an attacker view the RDP password for the vulnerable system.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Search for your account across multiple breaches [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) December 4, 2013 And then, as they say, things kinda escalated quickly. 🤣", the internet quipped. "Have I been pwned?" " by @troyhunt is now up and running. And then ensured could never happen again.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Over the last few days, a new ransomware campaign infected several users around the world as part of the #OpJerusalem campaign. Jcry is a recent ransomware written in Go which increases its analysis. However, the RSA public key used to encrypt the target files is static and hardcoded inside ransomware.

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McAfee

AUGUST 26, 2020

Ransomware Evolution to Most Promising Victim (MPV) Attacks. Ransomware cost businesses over $11.5 Ransomware is a type of malicious software that infects a computer and restricts users’ access to it and their data until a ransom is paid to unlock it. It seems 2014 is when ransomware took great strides forward.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

Computer Weekly said it had learnt that FatFace paid a £1.5m ($2 million US dollar) ransom to the Conti Ransomware gang , disclosing the gang gained access to FatFace network and their IT systems via a phishing email on 10th January 2021. More and More Ransomware Attacks. conduct employee phishing tests. conduct penetration testing.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Origins and History of the Dark Web IdentityIQ The dark web is a hidden part of the internet that cannot be accessed as easily. The dark web consists of websites and services that operate anonymously and aren’t accessible in the “public” part of the internet. The deep web is far and away the largest part of the internet.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. Yahoo data breach (2013). Summary: Yahoo believes that 'state-sponsored actors' compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014. Target data breach (2013). MySpace data breach (2013).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2022

In early 2013, researchers at Rapid7 published an interesting whitepaper entitled “Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play” that evaluated the global exposure of UPnP-enabled network devices. In December 2018, the company provided an update to its initial analysis revealing a disconcerting scenario, UPnProxy was still up and running.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 19, 2019

Related: How NSA cyber weapon could be used for a $200 billion ransomware caper. Fundamentally, SIEMs collect event log data from internet traffic, as well as corporate hardware and software assets. And on the horizon loom a full blown Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G networks , which will drive data generation to new heights.

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NopSec

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Businesses, governments, and consumers alike need to be aware of ransomware – a type of malware that can inflict serious damage on your finances and productivity in a very short span of time. In earlier days, ransomware programs would simply lock a computer’s screen and prevent programs and files from being opened.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2018

In early 2013, researchers at Rapid7 published an interesting whitepaper entitled “Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play” that evaluated the global exposure of UPnP-enabled network devices. “For home users, these attacks can lead to a number of complications, such as degraded service, malware infections, ransomware, and fraud.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Over the last few days, a new ransomware campaign infected several users around the world as part of the #OpJerusalem campaign. Jcry is a recent ransomware written in Go which increases its analysis. However, the RSA public key used to encrypt the target files is static and hardcoded inside ransomware.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 8, 2021

However, as IT and OT teams try to balance the need for increased remote access and automation, any Internet exposure creates numerous risks for these systems that are no longer air-gapped. Attackers know the risks posed by Internet exposure, as well as by older, unpatched software. Ransomware Gangs Pursue ICS Facilities. .

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2021

Colonial Pipeline–sprawling 5,500 miles from Houston to New York City–halted its mainlines on Friday, May 7, when administrators detected advanced ransomware internally. Also Read: Over 75 Percent of Ransomware Comes from Russian Speakers . In the biggest cyberattack to date on critical infrastructure in the U.S.,

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

However, hacking did not always involve computers or networks, and its history is much older than the internet era. The virus was created by Bob Thomas, a programmer at BBN Technologies, and it spread through the ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet. In 1971, the first computer virus, known as the Creeper virus , was released.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 26, 2021

The Biggest Ransomware Demand in History. The latest episode in the story is Acer Computer, who fell victim to a ransomware attack. While ransomware attacks have become a ubiquitous event these days, what makes this attack distinctive is the ransom demand itself. . REvil uses the Ransomware 2.0

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The Security Ledger

JULY 23, 2018

Also: ransomware is one of the most. Also: ransomware is one of the most effective forms of online crime. Despite that, many organizations have no formal plan for responding to a ransomware attack: we talk with Thomas Hoffman of the firm Flashpoint*, which has launched a new service to help firms prepare for and respond to ransomware.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Malware can be categorized based on how it behaves (adware, spyware and ransomware), and how it propagates from one victim to another (viruses, worms and trojans). One of the most notorious one being the BlackPOS spyware that compromised the data of over 40 million Target customers in 2013. Ransomware. Common types.

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