Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The backup of a limited number of systems was also affected.” ” N ow all critical systems at the University are online and offline backups were secured by the company. According to security experts at Fox-IT, the ransomware attack is compatible with other attacks carried out by the TA505 cybercrime gang.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2020

. “ It could be someone in the security research community, a government, a disgruntled insider, or a rival cybercrime group. Specifically, Trickbot has a backup control mechanism: A domain name registered on EmerDNS, a decentralized domain name system. In 2014, for example, U.S. We just don’t know at this point.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2020

Local and national authorities are working together to restore the operations as soon as possible, while the National Police’s Cybercrime Unit is investigating into the incident. The backup and recovery systems should help limit the damage and recover most of the data,” Vassal added.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Experts discovered the file index.html_bkp on the Apache server (likely a backup of the index.html), which caused the web server to display the list of the files and folder stored in that folder and download them. Experts believe that directory was used to store database backups. ” reads the report published by InfoArmor.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2019

Dyess confirmed that the impact was limited thanks to the availability of city’s computer backup system. “If If we wouldn’t have had these viable backups, we would probably be in a situation where we had to move into negotiations,” he said. But with those backups in place, why would we negotiate?”. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2019

IT staff has restored the normal operations using the backups. Ransomware attacks continue to represent a serious threat for companies and organizations, it is essential to adopt good cyber hygiene using defence software, having up to date applications and implementing an efficient backup policy. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

More than 6500 Dark Web services hosted on the platform were completely deleted and the bad news is that it is not possible to recover them because there are no backups as per design choice of the operator. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a look at some of the more notable cybercrime stories from the past year, as covered by KrebsOnSecurity and elsewhere. 24, Russia invades Ukraine, and fault lines quickly begin to appear in the cybercrime underground. I will also continue to post on LinkedIn about new stories in 2023. In 2016, while the U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

“As part of this attack, the operators behind the Sodinokibi ransomware told BleepingComputer that they had encrypted the company’s entire network, deleted backup files, and copied more than 5GB of personal data. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2019

The decision suggests the IT staff at the County did not have backups, or that in some way backups were encrypted too because they weren’t properly managed. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2020

The gang also claims to have erased the City’s local backups and to have stolen over 200 GB of files. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. million ransom. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The CryptoLocker wave went into a decline in June 2014 as a result of the so-called Operation Tovar , an initiative orchestrated by law enforcement agencies from multiple countries. The newsmaking emergence of CTB-Locker in 2014 and the CryptoWall ransomware in 2015 fully demonstrated this multi-pronged shift. pharma giant ExecuPharm.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

” The Cybercrime Threat Response team also announced its efforts in monitoring all COVID-19-related threats, the police are working closely with private partners in the cybersecurity industry to gather information of cyber threats and provide support to organizations targeted by ransomware attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

The Iron cybercrime group has been active since at least 2016, is known for the Iron ransomware but across the years it is built various strain of malware, including backdoors, cryptocurrency miners, and ransomware to target both mobile and desktop systems. Www backup paths. Tomcat default credentials and misconfigurations.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 20, 2021

It’s distributed by a cybercrime group called Indrik Spider, which has been in operation since 2014. Finally, DoppelPaymer runs a tool called Process Hacker, which damages the system’s defenses by terminating security, email server, backup, and database software processes.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

It is quite easy to find online AWS buckets containing backups of email archives, the same data could be found on publicly-accessible rsync, FTP, SMB, and NAS drives. Company credentials are a valuable commodity in the cybercrime underground , they are offered up to $5,000 for a single username and password pair. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

“Run updates, make sure your staff are aware of the digital threats and make backups.” ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – malware, hacking).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

MaxLinear restored some of the systems using its backups, despite Maze Ransomware threatened to leak over 1TB of data allegedly stolen before encrypting the infected systems. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Crooks behind the attack on MedStar requested 45 Bitcoins (about US$18,500) for restoring the encrypted files, but the organization refused to pay the Ransom because it had a backup of the encrypted information. Experts close the post recommending the importance of backup of important data for combating ransomware infections.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2019

The Ryuk virus got into the backup servers.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .” reported the WSBT. ” It seems that $100,000 out of $130,000 are being covered by insurance. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2018

“ CoinVault ransomware was first spotted in the wild in May 2014, it infected more than 14,000 Windows computers worldwide, most of them in the Netherlands, the US, the UK, Germany, and France. Regularly backup your important files to a separate drive or storage that are only temporarily connected. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

A few days ago the group released a press release in which they warned the companies to not try to recover their files from their backup, it also announced the forthcoming LG Electronics data leak. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” read a Maze’s statement reported by ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

and Facebook accounts, and thereby obtained complete iCloud backups, photographs, and other private information belonging to more than 200 victims, including both celebrities and noncelebrities.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reported the DoJ. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

CEO David Ives confirmed that the company did not pay the ransom and that the internal staff restored from backups after sanitized the impacted systems. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The backup channel for sharing information is email. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Security Affairs – Central Bank of Russia, cybercrime ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Hacker deleted all data from VFEmail Servers, including backups. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Micropatch prevents malicious PDFs from Calling Home. Malicious PDF Analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Then the city opted out to restore from backups. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Another US city was the victim of a ransomware attack, this time crooks hit the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, asking for $5.3

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

In this process authorities seized numerous backup hard drives [containing] a large portion of Orcus Technologies business, and practices,” Rezvesz wrote. In 2014, the U.S. In an “official press release” posted to pastebin.com on Mar. government said was used to infect more than a half million computers worldwide.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The crooks used the Tor network to avoid being tracked, exports noticed that also encrypted data backups to prevent victims from recovering their encrypted files. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2018

” Recipe Unlimited denies it was victim of a ransomware attac, because it conducts regular system backups to promptly mitigate such kind of attacks. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

Fxmsp took his first steps in the cybercrime scene in September 2016 when he registered on an underground forum, fuckav[.]ru. Finally, he infects the backups by installing backdoors. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. First steps. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Fxmsp).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Criminals create entire networks from the “mirror–websites” of their online alcohol stores; if one site is blocked, they swiftly migrate to a backup resource. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2018

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

According to the Data Quality Campaign , 45 states and Washington, DC, enacted new student privacy laws between 2014 and 2020. But with the same diligence adopted by the private sector, K–12 schools can follow regulation protocols to keep cybercrime at bay so that teachers and students remained focused on what matters: their education.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It's I would call it cybercrime as a service where it's kind of not just ransomware anymore. Well, the victim may have had a good backup and recovery process in place. Even if you have a good backup, that doesn’t necessarily mean you can back up quickly, not if it’s stored off site and several GBs of data.

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