Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The botnet was involved in stealing users’ credentials and data, mining cryptocurrencies abusing victims’ resources, and setting up proxies to funnel other people’s internet traffic through infected machines and routers. — Shane Huntley (@ShaneHuntley) December 7, 2021. ” reads the post published by Google.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. In 2021 alone, IC3 received 847,376 complaints which amounted to $6.9 billion in reported losses. since Q3 of 2007.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2022

The botnet has been active since at least the end of 2020, but its activity was documented in April 2021 by multiple security researchers. The botnet also supports scanning capabilities for WordPress configuration files and their backups, the feature allows operators to access sensitive data, including database credentials.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2021

Indian cryptocurrency exchange Buyucoin suffered a security incident, threat actors leaked sensitive data of 325K users. A new incident involving a cryptocurrency exchange made the headlines, the India-based cryptocurrency exchange suffered a security incident, threat actors leaked sensitive data of 325K users on the Dark Web.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This ranges from Secret Service agents discussing elements of cyber hygiene with those they protect to tracking down cybercrime fugitives. Within that, it's four categories: preparation, updates, protection, and backups. We still have things to figure out when it comes to cryptocurrency. What's at stake is disruption.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a look at some of the more notable cybercrime stories from the past year, as covered by KrebsOnSecurity and elsewhere. Super Bowl Sunday watchers are treated to no fewer than a half-dozen commercials for cryptocurrency investing. I will also continue to post on LinkedIn about new stories in 2023. agencies]. .”

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

Finally, negotiations with the victims may be handled by yet another team and when the ransom is paid out, a whole new set of skills is needed to launder the cryptocurrency obtained. They interact with each other through internet handles, paying for services with cryptocurrency. Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency is used for payment.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Q4 2021 saw the appearance of several new DDoS botnets. The botnet hijacked new devices by exploiting the CVE-2021-22205 vulnerability, which GitLab patched in April 2021, and carried out DDoS attacks of over 1TB/s. A bug designated as CVE-2021-36260 was found in some Hikvision camera models and patched in September 2021.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In 2021, the 24/7 news cycle was filled with stories of cyberattacks. There was the infrastructure ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline in May 2021, which caused the company to cease operations for days. Cybercrime is no longer a punishment-free crime.”. food supplies. A very clever technique,” says Milbourne.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 11, 2021

Thu, 08/12/2021 - 05:19. Even the most critical damages caused by ransomware are repairable as long as you have a solid backup strategy. Successful attacks against high-profile organizations propel this cybercrime model the most. How Not to Pay the Ransom? No Soup For You, Ransomware! Although the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

A report from IBM claims that 21% of all cyber attacks the company remediated in 2021 were ransomware, making it the most common type of attack in the report. To apply more pressure, the attacker might also encrypt backup files to render them inaccessible. And immutable backups are a particularly important ransomware protection.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2021

McAfee researchers addressed the shift in ransomware strategy this week in their McAfee Threats Report: June 2021. While 2021 has been noteworthy for headline-grabbing ransomware attacks like the one on Colonial Pipeline , the trend toward bigger targets had been underway before then, Samani told eSecurity Planet in an email interview.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The attacks, which originated from more than 30,000 different IP addresses, targeted websites including a gaming provider, cryptocurrency companies, hosting providers, and cloud computing platforms. attacks per day during Q4 2022, more than three times as many as in Q4 2021, according to Radware.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

In late 2021, we encountered a malicious DXE driver incorporated into several UEFI firmware images that were flagged by our firmware scanner (integrated into Kaspersky products at the start of 2019). Pangolin is private malware we discovered in 2021, exclusively used by ZexCone, the threat actor behind ExCone and DexCone. Middle East.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The agencies have reason to believe cryptocurrency ransom payments from such operations support DPRK's "national-level priorities and objectives". North Korea's cyber program poses a growing espionage, theft, and attack threat," the Annual Threat Assessment report in 2021 said. Backup your files. Educate your staff.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 11, 2021

Yes, these organized cybercrime groups have been known to offer 24/7 technical support, subscriptions, quality assurance, affiliate schemes, and online forums just like legitimate SaaS companies. patched April 10th, 2021. patched May 8th, 2021. Known to successfully extort far larger payments from large corporate companies.

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