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Ranzy Locker ransomware hit tens of US companies in 2021

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“Unknown cyber criminals using Ranzy Locker ransomware had compromised more than 30 US businesses as of July 2021. The victims include the construction subsector of the critical manufacturing sector, the academia subsector of the government facilities sector, the information technology sector, and the transportation sector.”

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Three more ransomware attacks hit Water and Wastewater systems in 2021

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RDP accesses); Exploitation of vulnerabilities affecting control systems running vulnerable firmware versions. The three new incidents included in the advisory are: In August 2021, malicious cyber actors used Ghost variant ransomware against a California-based WWS facility. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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New Qlocker ransomware infected hundreds of QNAP NAS devices in a few days

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“The Multimedia Console, Media Streaming Add-on, and Hybrid Backup Sync apps need to be updated to the latest available version as well to further secure QNAP NAS from ransomware attacks. The company also recommends updating the Multimedia Console, Media Streaming Add-on, and Hybrid Backup Sync apps to the latest versions.

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TLStorm flaws allow to remotely manipulate the power of millions of enterprise UPS devices

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Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) devices provide emergency backup power for mission-critical systems. Two of the TLStorm vulnerabilities reside in the TLS implementation used by Cloud-connected Smart-UPS devices, while the third one is a design flaw in the firmware upgrade process of Smart-UPS devices.

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FBI warns of ransomware attacks targeting the food and agriculture sector

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.” The PIN provides a series of examples of ransomware attacks impacting food and agriculture sector businesses, such as an attack that took place in January 2021 against an identified US farm that resulted in losses of approximately $9 million due to the disruption of the farming operations. hard drive, storage device, the cloud).

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A new wave of Qlocker ransomware attacks targets QNAP NAS devices

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The threat actors behind the attacks were exploiting an improper authorization vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-28799 , that could allow them to log in to a NAS device. “A A ransomware campaign targeting QNAP NAS began the week of April 19th, 2021. reads the security advisory published by the vendor.

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Avoslocker ransomware gang targets US critical infrastructure

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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).