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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

The epidemic went truly mainstream with the release of CryptoLocker back in 2013, and it has since transformed into a major dark web economy spawning the likes of Sodinokibi, Ryuk, and Maze lineages that are targeting the enterprise on a huge scale in 2020. FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. File encryption 2013 – 2015.

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French Firms Rocked by Kasbah Hacker?

Krebs on Security

HYAS said given the entities compromised — and that only a handful of known compromises occurred outside of France — there’s a strong possibility this was the result of an orchestrated phishing campaign targeting French infrastructure firms. to for a user named “ fatal.001.” ”

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Through tenures at Citrix, HP, and Bugcrowd, Jason Haddix offers his expertise in the areas of penetration testing , web application testing, static analysis, and more. Street is an expert in penetration testing, detection and response, pen testing, and auditing and co-author of Dissecting the Hack: The F0rb1dd3n Network.

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The ‘MartyMcFly’ investigation: Italian naval industry under attack

Security Affairs

The email message contains a pdf document named ”Marine_Engine_Spare__Parts_Order.pdf”, originally prepared from an Office document using “ Microsoft Word 2013 ” and then converted into PDF format using the “ Online2PDF.com ” online service. Phishing page previously hosted on xtyenvunqaxqzrm.usa.cc . Malicious email message.

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FIN7 sysadmin behind “billions in damage” gets 10 years

Malwarebytes

Since 2013 FIN7 have attempted to attack banks, e-payment systems, and financial institutions using pieces of malware they designed, known as Carbanak and Cobalt. The campaigns all started with spear-phishing targeted at bank employees. The malware.

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Cyber Security Roundup for May 2021

Security Boulevard

Which is more Important: Vulnerability Scans Or Penetration Tests? More Critical Patches for Microsoft Exchange Server (Versions 2013, 2016, & 2019). Phishing Scammers imitate Windows logo with HTML Tables to Slip through Email Gateways. Passwords are and have always been an Achilles Heel in Cybersecurity.

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Cyber Security Roundup for April 2021

Security Boulevard

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. conduct employee phishing tests. conduct penetration testing.