SecureWorld News

JANUARY 8, 2025

Here's what happened: In August 2024, Stoli got hit with ransomware. They had to switch to manual operations for everythingeven basic accounting. But the ransomware attack wasn't their only problem. Then ransomware hit. The attack knocked out their enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. They're $84 million in debt.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. VCPI) was hit by the Ryuk ransomware strain. In mid-November 2019, Wisconsin-based Virtual Care Provider Inc.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

A Ukrainian security researcher this week leaked several years of internal chat logs and other sensitive data tied to Conti , an aggressive and ruthless Russian cybercrime group that focuses on deploying its ransomware to companies with more than $100 million in annual revenue. The Contileaks account did not respond to requests for comment.

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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

JUNE 15, 2021

Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman who’s alleged to have worked as a programmer for Trickbot , a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for infecting millions of computers and seeding many of those systems with ransomware. nl — circa October 2018. 6 in Miami, Fla.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

Attackers are actively exploiting the CVE-2018-13379 flaw in Fortinet VPN to deploy the Cring ransomware to organizations in the industrial sector. The Cring ransomware appeared in the threat landscape in January, it was first reported by Amigo_A and the CSIRT team of Swisscom. ” reads the post published by Kaspersky.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

Phishing In phishing scams, cybercriminals trick people and businesses into handing over sensitive information like credit card numbers or login details for vital online accounts. Lured in by similar color schemes, company logos, and familiar layouts, victims log in to their account by entering their username and password.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Researcher Ron Guilmette discovered that Spammy Bear was able to hijack thousands of these dormant domains for spam simply by registering free accounts at GoDaddy and telling the company’s automated DNS service to allow the sending of email with those domains from an Internet address controlled by the spammers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2020

Last week, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Belarus announced the arrest of a 31-year-old man that is accused of distributing the infamous GandCrab ransomware. Last week, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Belarus announced the arrest of a man on charges of distributing the infamous GandCrab ransomware.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2021

Last week cybercriminals deployed ransomware to 1,500 organizations that provide IT security and technical support to many other companies. ” Michael Sanders , executive vice president of account management at Kaseya, confirmed that the customer portal was taken offline in response to a vulnerability report. “This was not.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

His final post on Exploit in May 2017 somewhat jokingly indicated he was joining an upstart ransomware affiliate program. RANSOMWARE DREAMS. 2016 and July 2017 that sought to corner the increasingly lucrative and competitive market for ransomware-as-a-service offerings. “Sodin” and “Sodinokibi”).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Chilean bank BancoEstado, one of the country’s biggest banks, was forced to shut down all branches following a ransomware attack. Chilean bank BancoEstado, one of the country’s biggest banks, was hit with a ransomware attack that forced its branches to remain closed since September 7. ” reported ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The source code for the KPot information stealer was put up for auction and the REvil ransomware operators want to acquire it. The authors of KPot information stealer have put its source code up for auction , and the REvil ransomware operators will likely be the only group to bid. KPOT source code up for sale! Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 1, 2024

government says four of Klyushin’s alleged co-conspirators remain at large, including Ivan Ermakov , who was among 12 Russians charged in 2018 with hacking into key Democratic Party email accounts. Marine arrested in 2018 and accused of spying. Duanev was sentenced in January 2024 to five years and four months in prison.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2023

Active since 2018, Genesis Market’s slogan was, “Our store sells bots with logs, cookies, and their real fingerprints.” “You can buy a bot with a real fingerprint, access to e-mail, social networks, bank accounts, payment systems!,” ” a cybercrime forum ad for Genesis enthused.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

11, when the company’s Twitter account started fielding reports from users who said they were no longer receiving messages. VFEmail’s Twitter account responded that “external facing systems, of differing OS’s and remote authentication, in multiple data centers are down.” 9], username “aktv.”).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 1, 2024

government says four of Klyushin’s alleged co-conspirators remain at large, including Ivan Ermakov , who was among 12 Russians charged in 2018 with hacking into key Democratic Party email accounts. Marine arrested in 2018 and accused of spying. Duanev was sentenced in January 2024 to five years and four months in prison.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 9, 2025

The attack vectors are diverse: fraudulent websites mimicking airline booking portals, phishing campaigns targeting airline staff, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks crippling airport websites malware infiltrating maintenance system, ransomware encrypting critical backend databases, and more. Airports have also been targeted.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Unlike ransomware, which is deployed against large businesses that cybercriminals hope can pay hefty ransoms, info stealers can deliver illicit gains no matter the target. Some info stealers dont even require an additional stepthey can take cryptocurrency directly from a victims online accounts.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

The author of the infamous Kraken ransomware has released a new version of the malicious code and launched a RaaS distribution program on the Dark Web. 2 version is being advertised on an underground forum and is available through a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model. The new Kraken v.2

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

and Germany moved to decapitate “ Hydra ,” a billion-dollar Russian darknet drug bazaar that also helped to launder the profits of multiple Russian ransomware groups. In May 2018, the FBI executed a similar strategy to dismantle VPNFilter, which had spread to more than a half-million consumer devices. ” HYDRA.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In 2018, the software giant took the step of doing away with passwords for people signing into its Edge web browser, saying instead they could use a number of alternatives. Since then, the company has steadily cast off the need for passwords for various accounts, and by May 2020, 150 million people had stopped using passwords.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2019

Experts observed the STOP ransomware installing the Azorult password-stealing Trojan to steal account credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and more. The STOP ransomware made the headlines because it is installing password-stealing Trojans on the victims’ machines. ” reads a blog post published by Bleepingcomputer.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2021

These days, when speaking of cyberthreats, most people have in mind ransomware, specifically cryptomalware. This roundup spotlights the ransomware Trojan families that most actively attacked businesses in the CIS in H1 2021, and their technical characteristics. Ransomware families at a glance. Note left by the ransomware.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2021

ransomware attacks against Australian organizations starting July 2021. ransomware attacks against Australian organizations in multiple industry sectors starting July 2021. The Australian agency also published 2021-006: ACSC Ransomware Profile – Lockbit 2.0 ransomware. . ransomware. in Australia since 2020.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

BlindEagle adds side-loading to its arsenal In August, we reported a new campaign by Blind Eagle, a threat actor that has been targeting government, finance, energy, oil and gas and other sectors in Latin America since at least 2018. They can find a leaked ransomware variant online, buy ransomware on the dark web, or become an affiliate.

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Cisco Security

JULY 11, 2022

No, Ransomware attacks are not random. From extortion to data breaches, ransomware is always evolving, and is becoming very lucrative with Ransomware-as-a-service kit making it easier to target organizations. 67 individual ransomware attacks on schools and colleges–a 19 percent decrease from 2020 (83) . What happened:

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

A new strain of ransomware tracked as JNEC.a The ransomware was involved in the attacks observed by the Qihoo 360 Threat Intelligence Center in the wild, threat actors used an archive named “vk_4221345.rar” Possibly the first #ransomware (vk_4221345.rar) rar) spread by #WinRAR exploit ( #CVE -2018-20250).

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure and a surge in exploited vulnerabilities are getting the attention of U.S. BlackByte Ransomware Attack Methods, IoCs. The FBI-Secret Service warning came just ahead of news that the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers had also been hit by BlackByte ransomware. The FBI and U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. The report’s findings reveal that email remains the main method of delivering ransomware, banking Trojans, and backdoors. Links account for 29%, while attachments—for 71%.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

The number of ransomware attacks increased by 40 percent last year, according to Group-IB attackers think bigger and grow more advanced. The greediest ransomware families with highest pay-off were Ryuk , DoppelPaymer and REvil. . In 2019, most ransomware operators actively used post-exploitation frameworks.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Examples of typosquatting are easy to come by.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 2, 2021

For those unacquainted with Ryuk , it is a type of ransomware that is used in targeted attacks against enterprises and organizations. It was first discovered in the wild in August 2018 and has been used in numerous cyberattacks since, including high profile incidents like the attack on the Tampa Bay Times and other newspapers in January 2020.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

On the 14th of May, the Health Service Executive (HSE) , Ireland’s publicly funded healthcare system, fell victim to a Conti ransomware attack, forcing the organization to shut down more than 80,000 affected endpoints and plunging them back to the age of pen and paper. Threat profile: Conti ransomware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2019

were infected by the Ryuk ransomware on April 13, 2018. Law enforcement is investigating a ransomware attack that hit the City of Stuart on April 13, 2018. “City officials on Wednesday confirmed a computer virus that infected servers over the weekend was the result of a ransomware attack.”

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Mortgage loan servicing company SN Servicing Corporation notified at least two states in recent weeks of a ransomware attack on its systems. Filings submitted to the California and Vermont state attorneys general disclosed that the company was hit by ransomware attacks on or around Oct.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warns organizations about high-impact ransomware attacks. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) issued organizations about high-impact ransomware attacks. SecurityAffairs – FBI, ransomware). Pierluigi Paganini.

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