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A Closer Look at the Snatch Data Ransom Group

Krebs on Security

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. ru account and posted as him.

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NIST’s ransomware guidelines look a lot like cyber resilience

Webroot

Already in 2020, according to the report: 2,4000 governmental agencies, healthcare facilities and schools had been hit with ransomware $350 million had been paid out ransomware actors, a 311% increase over 2019 It was taking 287 days on average for a business to fully recover from a ransomware attack.

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Zloader, another botnet, bites the dust

Malwarebytes

Zloader has a Domain Generating Algorithm (DGA) embedded within the malware that creates additional domains as a fallback or backup communication channel for the botnet. The primary goal of Zloader was originally financial theft, stealing account login IDs, passwords and other information to take money from people’s accounts.

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Ranzy Locker ransomware hit tens of US companies in 2021

Security Affairs

The gang has been active since at least 2020, threat actors hit organizations from various industries. Below are the recommended mitigations included in the alert: Implement regular backups of all data to be stored as air gapped, password protected copies offline. Use double authentication when logging into accounts or services.

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Data Exfiltration: Symantec Warns of Exbyte Threat as Hive Group Leaks Tata Data

eSecurity Planet

The new BlackByte exfiltration tool performs a series of checks both to make sure it’s not running in a sandboxed environment and to monitor for antivirus tools – similar to BlackByte’s pattern of behavior. txt,doc,pdf), and uploads them to an account on the MEGA cloud storage service.

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

With vulnerabilities rooted in unsuspecting users, the task of preventing these attacks means both staff training and a robust email and network security system that includes a strong backup program so you have a recent copy of your data that you can roll back to. Offline Backups. Screenshot example. Zero Trust. Statistics.

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FBI warns of PYSA Ransomware attacks against Education Institutions in US and UK

Security Affairs

In March 2020, CERT France cyber-security agency warned about a new wave of ransomware attack that was targeting the networks of local government authorities. According to the report issued by the CERT-FR, operators behind the Pysa ransomware launched brute-force attacks against management consoles and Active Directory accounts.