Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

In the meantime, if you have any further questions please drop us a direct message, call us on 01329 750 630, or visit our FAQs webpage [link] — Aerial Direct (@Aerial_Direct) March 13, 2020. To reassure you, the database did not include any passwords or financial details, such as bank account number or credit card information.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2021

Leaked data includes names, e-mails, mobile numbers, encrypted passwords, user wallet details, order details, bank details, KYC details (PAN number, passport numbers) and deposit history. The researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia analyzed the leaked data, it is a MongoDB database of 6GB that contains three backup files with BuyUcoin data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Backup and recovery – according to FEMA , 40% of small businesses never reopen after a disaster. For a smaller business with limited IT capabilities, conducting regular and all-encompassing backups of all systems will provide a simple but very effective defense against a variety of threats and risks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2022

Then, 2020 happened and much of that changed. Although a relatively unsophisticated cybercrime, they can shut down servers, expose data, paralyze 911 centers, and disrupt traffic management systems. 2019 was called the worst year on record for breaches , and then came 2020, and new breaches are being reported all the time.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2021

Group-IB published a report titled “Ransomware Uncovered 2020-2021 ”. analyzes ransomware landscape in 2020 and TTPs of major threat actors. Group-IB , a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company, has presented its new report “Ransomware Uncovered 2020-2021 ”. The gold rush of 2020.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 9, 2021

While Mandiant opted to forgo using the program, it was only because working from backups was quicker. needled the company for paying a ransom if it was working from backups. Carmakal cleared up some nuances in the cause of the breach, previously reported as an employee’s VPN account with a password used across multiple sites.

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SiteLock

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It’s actively promoted on cybercrime forums as the best choice for attacking business networks (which is a highly lucrative option for cybercriminals). In 2020, IBM researchers estimated REvil’s annual profits were nearly $81 million. It also deletes Windows copies of files and other backups to prevent file recovery.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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.

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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. According to the FBI , DoppelPaymer attacks escalated in late 2020, with a hospital in Germany, a U.S. If possible, store at least one backup in a different physical location than your device. So, what is DoppelPaymer ransomware?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

“On May 24, 2020, we discovered a security incident affecting some of our systems. “Our investigation to-date has identified evidence of unauthorized access to our systems from approximately April 15, 2020 until May 24, 2020. . The company already sent a data breach notification to the impacted individuals.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ransomware frequently contains extraction capabilities that can steal critical information like usernames and passwords, so stopping ransomware is serious business. Just in 2020, the SolarWinds hack could’ve been prevented for organizations that promptly patch software. Offline Backups. Zero Trust. Statistics.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The epidemic went truly mainstream with the release of CryptoLocker back in 2013, and it has since transformed into a major dark web economy spawning the likes of Sodinokibi, Ryuk, and Maze lineages that are targeting the enterprise on a huge scale in 2020. In early 2020, several cybercriminals groups followed suit. Time will tell.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Introduction Knowledge is our best weapon in the fight against cybercrime. Cuba ransomware gang Cuba data leak site The group’s offensives first got on our radar in late 2020. Samples often have a forged compilation timestamp: those found in 2020 were stamped with June 4, 2020, and more recent ones, June 19th, 1992.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2022

ForrmBook is capable of key logging and capturing browser or email client passwords, but its developers continue to update the malware to exploit the latest Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVS), such as CVE-2021-40444 Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. physically disconnected) backups of data. Enforce MFA.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Examples of this include keeping software up to date, backing up data, and maintaining good password practices. Cyber attacks nowadays do not often come from ingenious ‘hackers’ in dark rooms, they’re often the result of an employee reusing the same password, or businesses not implementing basic practices such as multi-factor authentication.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

review Active Directory password policy. implement offline storage and tape-based backup. In 2020 groups were demanding as much as $30 million to unlock a victim’s files and systems. Cybercrime to cost over $10 Trillion by 2025. conduct employee phishing tests. conduct penetration testing. All very sound advice.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group in the week leading up to the arrest of its most active members last month. However, we have a backup and it’s safe from scum!!!” T-Mobile currently has approximately 75,000 employees worldwide.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 29, 2020

There is an imminent and increased cybercrime threat to U.S. October 29, 2020. Both frameworks are very robust and are highly effective dual-purpose tools, allowing actors to dump clear text passwords or hash values from memory with the use of Mimikatz. COVID-19 cybercrime and how it is evolving.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

Learn how @INTERPOL_Cyber is helping #police and organizations deal with this threat: [link] — INTERPOL (@INTERPOL_HQ) April 4, 2020. The INTERPOL recommends hospitals and healthcare organizations keep their systems and software up to date, and to implement an efficient backup policy.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

Wizard Spider is a cybercrime group affiliated with a what is sometimes called the Ransomware Cartel , a collective of underground groups identified by threat intelligence company Analyst1. Two years later, the group moved to using Conti, in May 2020. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts. Implement network segmentation.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

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. Once compromised the target network, attackers attempt to exfiltrate the company’s accounts and passwords database. newversion file extension instead of .

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. billion in reported losses, up from 2020’s 791,790 complaints and $4.2 Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

By January 2023, education had claimed over 80 percent of all global malware incidents —a staggering lead that has held since 2020. In fact, 57 percent of all ransomware incidents disclosed to the FBI involved K–12 districts at the start of the 2020/2021 school year, compared to just 28 percent the year prior.

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SC Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

The energy sector experienced a 74% increase in ICS vulnerabilities disclosed during the second half of 2020 compared to second half 2018. Despite the sensitivity of OT environments, many organizations use single-factor user names and passwords to access assets. In some cases, they use shared passwords. Segment the network.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

It’s worth noting that despite the fact that Fxmsp stopped all public activity in late 2019, Group-IB discovered that a European energy company, that he was selling access to, fell victim to a ransomware attack in 2020. Fxmsp took his first steps in the cybercrime scene in September 2016 when he registered on an underground forum, fuckav[.]ru.

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SC Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

A Constant Contact booth display at the eAltitude Summit in 2020. To counter these threats, responsible password management is a must from the sender or mass mailing service’s account-holder side. Schrader similarly recommended establishing an “onion-layer approach to security controls, overlapping each other as a backup.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.125 Safari/537.36 ” which has been observed by Sucuri repeatedly in compromised machine logs starting in late 2020 and well into the current period. Organizations should also enforce a strong password policy (complexity, 16+ characters, etc.), Windows NT 10.0;

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

A zombie network, named Abcbot by researchers, first hit the radar in July, but at the time it was little more than a simple scanner attacking Linux systems by brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting known vulnerabilities. Let’s look at the figures: Comparative number of DDoS attacks, Q3 and Q4 2021, and Q4 2020.

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

WastedLocker is a new ransomware locker we’ve detected being used since May 2020. We believe it has been in development for a number of months prior to this and was started in conjunction with a number of other changes we have seen originate from the Evil Corp group in 2020. Actor Tracking. WastedLocker.

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