Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The attacks spotted by Cisco Talos were carried out by a Babuk ransomware affiliate tracked as Tortilla that has been active since at least July 2021. 229 @58_158_177_102 @sugimu_sec pic.twitter.com/LcuNw88fOo — TG Soft (@VirITeXplorer) October 14, 2021. The ransomware maybe born from the leaked #Babuk code.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

and Australia have published a joint advisory warning of an increased globalised threat of ransomware worldwide in 2021. Almost any sector was hit by sophisticated, high-impact ransomware attacks, including the Defense Industrial Base, Emergency Services, Food and Agriculture, Government Facilities, and Information Technology Sectors.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

It encrypts files with the following file extensions @cherepanov74 1/3 pic.twitter.com/miyIlH1IdI — ESET research (@ESETresearch) December 21, 2021. The principle is simple, according to the authors of the malware, recent files may be more important for some victims and typically they are not included in recent backups.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Bug bounty hacker earned $5,000 reporting a Stored XSS flaw in iCloud.com Experts warn of threat actors abusing Google Alerts to deliver unwanted programs FBI warns of the consequences of telephony denial-of-service (TDoS) attacks An attacker was able to siphon audio feeds from multiple Clubhouse rooms Georgetown County has yet to recover from a sophisticated (..)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The malware uses TOR exit nodes as a backup C2 infrastructure. The malware was first spotted in September 2021, the experts observed it targeting organizations in the technology and manufacturing industries. The malicious code uses Windows Installer to reach out to QNAP-associated domains and download a malicious DLL.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2021

IT and consulting giant Accenture confirmed a data breach after the ransomware attack conducted by LockBit operators in August 2021. Global IT consultancy giant Accenture discloses a data breach after the LockBit ransomware attack that hit the company in August 2021.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2021

— Cyble (@AuCyble) August 11, 2021. It is not clear how the threat actors breached the company and when the security breach took place. Accenture attempted to downplay the incident and revealed that impacted systems had been recovered using its backups. ransomware attack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2021

The company’s backup servers were not affected, and it is actively working with an Incident Response firm to restore its systems as soon as possible.” The White House said Tuesday that the cyberattack was likely originating from a cybercrime organization based in Russia. reads the press release published by the company.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

The AvosLocker ransomware-as-a-service emerged in the threat landscape in September 2021, since January the group expanded its targets by implementing the support for encrypting Linux systems, specifically VMware ESXi servers. Regularly back up data, password protect backup copies offline. hard drive, storage device, the cloud).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2021

The PrintNightmare flaws (tracked as ( CVE-2021-1675 , CVE-2021-34527 , and CVE-2021-36958 ) reside in the Windows Print Spooler service, print drivers, and the Windows Point and Print feature. The targeting of backups to prevent recovery following ransomware deployment.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2022

The malware uses TOR exit nodes as a backup C2 infrastructure. The malware was first spotted in September 2021, the experts observed Raspberry Robin targeting organizations in the technology and manufacturing industries. Around November 2021, DEV-0243 started to deploy the LockBit 2.0

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In October 2022, the malware was used in post-compromise activity attributed to another actor, DEV-0950 (which overlaps with FIN11 / TA505 cybercrime gang). The malware uses TOR exit nodes as a backup C2 infrastructure. The DEV-0950 attacks led to the deployment of the Cobalt Strike beacon.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

. — Shane Huntley (@ShaneHuntley) December 7, 2021. Google researchers believe that the operators of Glupteba botnet will likely attempt to regain control of the malicious infrastructure by using the C2 backup mechanism that leverages the Bitcoin blockchain. ” reads the post published by Google.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Update November 8, 2021. The Hive gang has been active since June 2021, it implements a Ransomware-as-a-Service model and employs a wide variety of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). The Hive ransomware adds the.hive extension to the filename of encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2022

years in jail for spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia Social Blade discloses security breach Data of 5.7M years in jail for spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia Social Blade discloses security breach Data of 5.7M Samba addressed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities Former Twitter employee sentenced to 3.5

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2022

The malware uses TOR exit nodes as a backup C2 infrastructure. The malware was first spotted in September 2021, the experts observed Raspberry Robin targeting organizations in the technology and manufacturing industries. The malicious code uses Windows Installer to reach out to QNAP-associated domains and download a malicious DLL.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The malware uses TOR exit nodes as a backup C2 infrastructure. The malware was first spotted in September 2021, the experts observed it targeting organizations in the technology and manufacturing industries. The malicious code uses Windows Installer to reach out to QNAP-associated domains and download a malicious DLL.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

Copycat Criminals mimicking Lockbit gang in northern Europe Sandworm APT targets Ukraine with new SwiftSlicer wiper ISC fixed high-severity flaws in DNS software suite BIND Patch management is crucial to protect Exchange servers, Microsoft warns Hacker accused of having stolen personal data of all Austrians and more CVE-2023-23560 flaw exposes 100 (..)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Secret Service (USSS) to provide information on BlackByte ransomware. As of November 2021, BlackByte ransomware had compromised multiple US and foreign businesses, including entities in at least three US critical infrastructure sectors (government facilities, financial, and food & agriculture).” ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The decrypter only allows decrypting files encrypted with BlackMatter versions used gang between mid-July and late-September 2021 , the most recent version of the ransomware addressed the issue. More details can be found here: [link] — Fabian Wosar (@fwosar) October 24, 2021. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2021

???????????????????? (@ddd1ms) October 17, 2021. "Good luck everyone, I'm off" – 0_neday Intel courtesy of @ddd1ms pic.twitter.com/cKvev4uDu5 — vx-underground (@vxunderground) October 17, 2021. The third party has backups with onion service keys,” wrote ‘0_neday’ on the hacking forum.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Dole reported 2021 revenues of $6.5 “Upon learning of this incident, Dole moved quickly to contain the threat and engaged leading third-party cybersecurity experts, who have been working in partnership with Dole’s internal teams to remediate the issue and secure systems.” ” reads a notice published by the company.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2021

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

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

. “Although FBI and CISA do not currently have any specific threat reporting indicating a cyberattack will occur over the upcoming Labor Day holiday, malicious cyber actors have launched serious ransomware attacks during other holidays and weekends in 2021.” Securing and monitoring Remote Desktop Protocol endpoints.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2022

“Raspberry Robin is Red Canary’s name for a cluster of activity we first observed in September 2021 involving a worm that is often installed via USB drive.” The malware uses TOR exit nodes as a backup C2 infrastructure. ” reads the advisory published by Red Canary.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Ambitious information security experts serve as a critical part of cyber risk management. The corporation is responsible for structuring IT and information security activities to protect its data resources, such as hardware, software, and procedures. Information. Traditional Components. SecSDLC Components.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

CERT-FR reported that threat actors behind these ransomware attackers are actively exploiting the vulnerability CVE-2021-21974. As usual, every time we attempt to recover files encrypted by ransomware it is a good practice to create a backup of the server. Experts noticed that only a few thousand systems were encrypted worldwide.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2021

Hive ransomware has been active since June 2021, it implements a Ransomware-as-a-Service model and employs a wide variety of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). In order to facilitate file encryption, the ransomware look for processes associated with backups, anti-virus/anti-spyware, and file copying and terminates them.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2022

The malware uses TOR exit nodes as a backup C2 infrastructure. The malware was first spotted in September 2021, the experts observed Raspberry Robin targeting organizations in the technology and manufacturing industries. The malicious code uses Windows Installer to reach out to QNAP-associated domains and download a malicious DLL.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Krebs on Security One of the best cybersecurity blogs offering unique insights. Their main focus is on cybercrime investigations. Threat Post Threat Post is a portal, with news about everything related to recurring cybersecurity themes: attacks, cloud security, malware and ransomware, vulnerabilities, and so on.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2022

— Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 13, 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 new variant, which we call Sysrv-K, sports additional exploits and can gain control of web servers.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

There is, of course, a documented porosity between the ransomware ecosystem and other cybercrime domains such as carding or point-of-sale (PoS) hacking. But it is worth pointing out that not all members of this ecosystem originate from the cybercrime underworld. REvil operators have demanded the highest ransoms in 2021.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

According to Coveware, a company that offers incident response services to organizations impacted by ransomware attacks, Conti is the second most common ransomware family that victim organizations have reported in the first quarter of 2021. Focus on cyber security awareness and training. Adversary profile: Wizard Spider.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The decryptor has the “backup files” feature, enabled by default that could be used in case there will be any problem with the decryption process. The ransomware gang was dismantled in October 2021 with the arrest of its operators and the seizure of the systems containing the master private keys used in the encryption process.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2021

The researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia analyzed the leaked data, it is a MongoDB database of 6GB that contains three backup files with BuyUcoin data. Again didn't informed to affected users by company. Story – [link] #InfoSec pic.twitter.com/1xFOtLcd8F — Rajshekhar Rajaharia (@rajaharia) January 21, 2021.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If these things are true, how do we share information with others in a way that is proven to work and create a culture of security? Security awareness and how you talk about cybersecurity. Liebes points out that annual cybercrime losses, including unreported crimes, could total $380 billion. The reasons for that may vary.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2023

Then, in January of 2021, after Gallo had resigned from Company A, he allegedly accessed the facility’s computer system remotely and transmitted a command to uninstall software that was the main hub of the facility’s computer network and that protected the entire water treatment system, including water pressure, filtration, and chemical levels.”

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