Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The LockBit ransomware gang has been active since September 2019, in June 2021 the group announced the LockBit 2.0 attempts to encrypt any data saved to any local or remote device but skips files associated with core system functions.” Like other ransomware gangs, Lockbit 2.0 ” reads the flash alert.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2023

“Fortunately, TGH’s monitoring systems and experienced technology professionals effectively prevented encryption, which would have significantly interrupted the hospital’s ability to provide care for patients.” At Malwarebytes, we've been tracking the Snatch group since 2019. Stop malicious encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Data Security & Recovery Measures Reliable CSPs provide high-level security and backup services; in the event of data loss, recovery is possible. Users have direct control over data security but are also responsible for backup procedures and permanently lost data in the event of device damage or loss.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The average ransomware demand continues to grow (up to $41,198 in Q3 2019, compared to $5,973 in the same period last year). This ransomware encrypts cloud data, damaging the whole network of an organization. Ryuk targets large organizations, using advanced encryption algorithms that are extremely hard to decrypt. in Bitcoin.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2021

In addition to the encryption of data, victims have received threats that data stolen during the incidents will be published.” The LockBit ransomware gang has been active since September 2019, in June the group announced the LockBit 2.0 ransomware. This activity has occurred across multiple industry sectors.

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SC Magazine

MAY 11, 2021

SSM documents are private by default, but developers can share them with other AWS accounts or publicly. An SSM document can provide an attacker an initial foothold into the victim’s environment and sometimes even grant a view into the account’s deployment processes, resources, and backup procedures.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

million ransom to decrypt its files after being encrypted by the infamous Sodinokibi ransomware. “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.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

You probably don’t recall creating an account on the Verifications.io Email verifiers are online services that allow marketers and salespeople to verify that the email address you used to create an account, sign up for a newsletter or make an order on their website is real and valid. platform or River City Media.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2022

The Zeppelin ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in November 2019 when experts from BlackBerry Cylance found a new variant of the Vega RaaS, dubbed Zeppelin. To each encrypted file, it appends a randomized nine-digit hexadecimal number as an extension. ” reads the joint advisory. “The Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. locked to the filename of the encrypted files. Once compromised the target network, attackers attempt to exfiltrate the company’s accounts and passwords database.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 5, 2022

This is after ransomware attacks rose 500% from 2019 to 2020. In 2019, the city of Atlanta was the victim of a ransomware attack. Once your computer has become infected with the malware, your data is encrypted, and you cannot gain access to it. Regularly creating and securing backups of all your data. What is Ransomware?

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 29, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to visit with Semperis CEO Mickey Bresman. They went back in, recovered the system again, but this time changed the passwords for every privileged account in the AD. But that decentralized backup strategy hadn’t accounted for one scenario: where every domain controller is wiped simultaneously. “If

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Malwarebytes

JULY 20, 2022

According to court documents, in May 2021, North Korean hackers used a ransomware strain called Ransom.Maui to encrypt the files and servers of a medical center in the District of Kansas. In May 2022, the FBI seized the contents of two cryptocurrency accounts that had received funds from the Kansas and Colorado health care providers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A series of messages published on Barnes & Noble’s Nook social media accounts state that it had suffered a system failure and is working to restore operations by restoring their server backups. 2/2) Please be assured that there is no compromise of customer payment details which are encrypted and tokenized.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” Offline Backups.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Just days later, the account announced that it was “putting an end to” the group after learning that six of its affiliates may have been arrested. RagnarLocker started in 2019 and was responsible for numerous high-profile attacks against municipalities and critical infrastructure across the world. Stop malicious encryption.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In the digital age, having a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy is now just as crucial to organizational success as accounting, sales, marketing and other core business functions. billion to cybercriminals in 2019, according to the FBI. worldwide in 2019, according to a Ponemon Institute survey. lost more than $3.5

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In December 2019, Maastricht University (UM) announced that ransomware infected almost all of its Windows systems on December 23. It is unclear if the attackers have exfiltrated data from the systems before encrypting them. The attacker focused on encrypting data files in the Windows domain.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

As a G Suite domain administrator, have you ever thought how often password cracking attempts are made on your account at Google? Are you even aware if an unauthorized attempt to access your account has taken place? In the case, hackers managed to identify the G Suite Admin account of the domain.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 30, 2021

PYSA, which stands for “Protect Your System Amigo”, was first named in open source documents in December 2019, two months after Mespinoza was spotted in the wild. Mespinoza originally used the.locked extension on encrypted files, and then shifted to using.pysa. Don’t try to use backups because it were encrypted too.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru. Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. Image: Shutterstock.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

The threat actors are actively exploiting the following vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2018-13379 ; CVE-2020-12812 ; CVE-2019-5591. The joint alert also states that attackers scanning also enumerated devices for the CVE-2020-12812 and CVE-2019-5591 flaws. Implement network segmentation. Disable hyperlinks in received emails.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

The first is Ransom.Sodinokibi , which Malwarebytes has already profiled and has been detecting since 2019.). The files are then held for ransom and the victim is threatened by data loss, because of the encryption, and leaking of the exfiltrated data. Earlier versions appended the.CONTI extension to encrypted files.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

We met at Black Hat 2019. They’ll take more manual steps to encrypt servers, exfiltrate data – or do both. And then, instead of encrypting one or two or ten machines, they’ll encrypt everything.” Once they were inside, they would turn off your antivirus software and the software responsible for online backups.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2022

Observed since: September 2019 Ransomware note: Restore-My-Files.txt Ransomware extension: lockbit Kill Chain: Brute force attack on a web server containing an outdated VPN service > LockBit Sample hash: 9feed0c7fa8c1d32390e1c168051267df61f11b048ec62aa5b8e66f60e8083af. Use double authentication when logging into accounts or services.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

According to the report, there were 408 publicly disclosed cyber incidents affecting school districts last year – 18% more than in 2019. If you account for the unknown attacks that were never reported, the true number is likely 10 to 20 times greater, Levin estimated. Rockingham County, North Carolina.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 10, 2021

in February of 2019 when it emerged as a brute forcer written in Golang that was discovered to be involved in a rise in attacks against e-commerce websites. Synology also recommends enabling auto block and account protection. Synology also advises users to enable Snapshot to keep their NAS safe from encryption-based ransomware.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 23, 2021

LockBit ransomware was initially discovered in September 2019. This is the act of exfiltrating sensitive data from the victim network before the encryption stage of the attack[1]. lafand wbadmin to delete any backups . Malware analysis researchers have also discovered that LockBit 2.0 vssadmin to delete shadow copies.

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SiteLock

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

REvil (ransomware evil), also known as Sodin and Sodinokibi, is an ambitious criminal ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) enterprise group that rose to fame in 2019. REvil ransomware is a file-blocking virus that encrypts files after infection and shares a ransom request message. Encrypt your sensitive data wherever possible.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The McAfee report shows that new ransomware attacks have grown some 118% in 2019. The healthcare industry has been a prime target in 2019 with dozens of hospitals falling victim to ransomware infection. The backups were also encrypted, leaving the medical practice unable to recover either data or its business.

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SecureList

APRIL 7, 2022

The initial access was mistaken by the attackers for two different physical systems and drives to infect and encrypt. The kill chain was triggered prior to the “pre-encryption” activity, but the real point of interest here lies in the shared vulnerabilities and the demonstrable risk of shared assets across cloud resources.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Data Security: Airtight Backup If you don’t have a robust Data Loss Protection (DLP) plan, all your security strategy will fall apart. The core of all the DLP plan is having a ransomware-proof backup that will let you restore data in case you get hit. Backup your data at least three times a day; 3.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

Leakware is a potent, dangerous form of ransomware that emerged in 2019. It's slightly different from a standard ransomware attack—encrypting a user's files is a secondary concern. Here is more information about leakware and some strategies companies can leverage to protect themselves from these attacks. What is leakware?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Adiantum will bring encryption on Android devices without cryptographic acceleration. 620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites available for sale on the dark web. Hacker deleted all data from VFEmail Servers, including backups. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for February 2019 fixes IE Zero-Day. 20% discount.

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Spinone

JULY 29, 2019

This is why about 5 million businesses have adopted G Suite as their productivity tool in 2019. It contains advanced anti-phishing and malware protection, data encryption, the ability to configure different security policies for each business category, and more. It is inbuilt in G Suite, so it is free if you have a paid account.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

NCC Group and Fox-IT observed this threat actor during various incident response engagements performed between October 2019 until April 2020. After obtaining a valid account, they use this account to access the victim’s VPN, Citrix or another remote service that allows access to the network of the victim.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The patient records encrypted in the attack include names and certain dental or cardiac images. ” “Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York has announced that a security breach occurred in late July 2019 that resulted in malware being installed on some of the hospital’s servers.” ” reads the notice.

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