Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 15, 2019

A report by US cyber-security firm Recorded Future published last May highlighted a spike in ransomware attacks targeting US cities. In June 2019, Riviera Beach in FL paid $600,000 to hackers to restore its email system and public records. The potential security failure of a smart city initiative could have grave consequences.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2021

It’s nice when ransomware gangs have their bitcoin stolen, malware servers shut down, or are otherwise forced to disband. Indeed, some of the most destructive and costly ransomware groups are now in their third incarnation. Indeed, some of the most destructive and costly ransomware groups are now in their third incarnation.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

While this report is primarily focused on cybercriminals that operate on Russian territory, cybercriminals rarely restrict themselves to national borders — with ransomware gangs being a prime example of such cross-border activity. Understandably, such tools have risen in popularity since the pandemic and the consequent rise in remote working.

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SecureList

JUNE 17, 2021

Black Kingdom ransomware appeared on the scene back in 2019, but we observed some activity again in 2021. The ransomware was used by an unknown adversary for exploiting a Microsoft Exchange vulnerability (CVE-2021-27065). The ransomware family was DearCry. CVE-2019-11510. Ransomware is written in Python.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Ransomware attacks, despite dramatically increasing in frequency this summer , remain opaque for many potential victims. It isn’t anyone’s fault, necessarily, since news articles about ransomware attacks often focus on the attack, the suspected threat actors, the ransomware type, and, well, not much else.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

The final payload is a remote administration tool that provides full control over the victim machine to its operators. Communication with the server can take place either over raw TCP sockets encrypted with RC4, or via HTTPS. Andariel adds ransomware to its toolset. Evolution of JSWorm ransomware. Ferocious Kitten.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

These are words that no system administrator or business leader wants to hear from anyone using a computer on their network. However, this year in 2019, many IT professionals and business leaders alike have had to deal with the very real and alarming scenario of a ransomware attack. Is cloud storage safe from ransomware?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

With lateral movement across a victim’s IT infrastructure, threat actors can escalate privileges, spread malware , extract data , and disrupt IT services as with ransomware attacks. SamSam Ransomware: Malware Specializing in RDP. A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The Originating Malvertising Campaign According to CTI investigation on the adversary infrastructure, we were able to identify an ongoing campaign luring system administrators to install the malicious code into their machines. Bots “public-key” and “private-key” are randomly generated at process startup time.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

Like, okay, you know, I don't have time to order more, but the next year in 2019, I took 5000 and I didn't attend a single talk. It starts off with this like, you know, uptempo like techno beat and it shouldn't have these flashy graphics of encryption and decryption, you know, payload and loading things like that.

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