SecureList

MAY 8, 2024

Ransomware landscape: rise in targeted groups and attacks Kaspersky collected data on targeted ransomware groups and their attacks from multiple relevant public sources, for the years 2022 and 2023, filtered and validated it. The reason for its remarkable activity may be its builder leak in 2022.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Governments in many countries push for easier identification of Internet users to fight cybercrime, as well as “traditional” crime coordinated online. While we hope 2022 will be the last pandemic year, we do not think the privacy trends will reverse. What will be the consequences of these processes?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices. Tripwire’s tips for all organizations on avoiding ransomware attacks include: Making secure offsite backups. Encrypting sensitive data wherever possible. ” .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

. “Our investigation has revealed that the threat actor pivoted from the first incident, which ended on August 12, 2022, but was actively engaged in a new series of reconnaissance, enumeration, and exfiltration activities aligned to the cloud storage environment spanning from August 12, 2022 to October 26, 2022.”

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SecureList

MAY 11, 2022

Ahead of the Anti-Ransomware Day, we summarized the tendencies that characterize ransomware landscape in 2022. Watching and assessing these tendencies not only provides us with threat intelligence to fight cybercrime today, but also helps us deduce what trends may see in the months to come and prepare for them better. –size.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

“Between 2022 and 2023, the FBI noted ransomware attacks compromising casinos through third-party gaming vendors. The attacks frequently targeted small and tribal casinos, encrypting servers and the personally identifying information (PII) of employees and patrons.” ” reported the PIN.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2023

The threat actors also attempted to sell the stolen data on the BreachForums cybercrime forum that was recently shut down by law enforcement. The account was used to create database backups which were then downloaded and deleted. It also downloaded existing nightly full-backups of the database.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q2 2022. We identified a Windows variant of this sample using the same string encryption algorithm, internal modules, and functionalities. They are designed to highlight the significant events and findings that we feel people should be aware of.

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SecureList

JUNE 22, 2023

Phishing and a kit Recently we stumbled upon a Business Email Compromise (BEC) case, active since at least Q3 2022. KTAE shows similarities between LockBit Green and Conti Three pieces of adopted code really stand out: the ransomware note, the command line options and the encryption scheme.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. billion rubles. billion rubles.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

Some variants of the ransomware append the English name of the target company to the filenames of the encrypted files. ” reads the analysis published by Rising.AFR-6fyvilv #Sfile #Ransomware New Sample: 6E029B9B0A600CDC1E75A4F7228B332B pic.twitter.com/tB27dM8tjd — dnwls0719 (@fbgwls245) January 9, 2022. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Thanks to your readership and support, I was able to spend more time in 2022 on some deep, meaty investigative stories — the really satisfying kind with the potential to affect positive change. Some of that work is highlighted in the 2022 Year in Review review below.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The group claims to have stolen 5TB of patients’ and employee’s information, backups, PII documents, and more. Stats for 2022 in the link. Its policy forbids to encrypt systems of organizations where damage could lead to the death of individuals. The gang also published a sample as proof of the stolen data.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 24, 2023

A spokesman for the Central and Contact Point Cybercrime (ZAC NRW) at the Cologne public prosecutor's office confirmed corresponding knowledge of an incident in the early evening. After the data is copied, the ransomware encrypts files and gives them the ".basta" Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Introduction Knowledge is our best weapon in the fight against cybercrime. As with most cyberextortionists lately, the Cuba gang encrypts victims’ files and demands a ransom in exchange for a decryption key. Single extortion: encrypting data and demanding a ransom just for decryption.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

As cybercrime has grown in both frequency and severity, zero trust’s advantages have become increasingly clear. It’s able to export passwords and other sensitive data into CSV files that can then be encrypted and stored securely. It doesn’t have break glass capabilities and advises file copy backups for DR scenarios.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

DEV-0950 group used Clop ransomware to encrypt the network of organizations previously infected with the Raspberry Robin worm. The experts noticed that threat actors tracked as DEV-0950 used Clop ransomware to encrypt the network of organizations previously infected with the worm. The final-stage malware was the Clop ransomware.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 3, 2023

It accounted for almost a third of all known RaaS attacks last year, peaking at almost half of all known ransomware attacks in September 2022. The largest ransom demand it made in 2022 was a staggering $50 million. Ransomware-as-a-service is the most lucrative and dangerous form of cybercrime. Stop malicious encryption.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Antivirus software—or more correctly, its modern descendents endpoint security and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)—are essential tools in the battle against cybercrime. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

Table of Contents Toggle Recent Healthcare Attacks & Breaches 5 Key Cybersecurity Management Lessons to Learn Bottom Line: Learn Healthcare’s Lessons Before Suffering Pain Recent Healthcare Attacks & Breaches Large breaches affected over 88 million individuals in the USA in 2023, a 60% increase from 2022.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2023

The LockBit gang encrypted the hospital's data and demanded a ransom for the decryptor, but the hospital refused to pay and instead worked to restore its systems from backups. December 31, 2022. LockBit affiliate breach violated their rules for The Hospital for Sick Children and offers the decryptor for free.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2023

The company earned $770 million in 2022. The company said that some local infrastructures have been encrypted. “The time needed to carry out these actions and to use the backups to restart should take a few days, which is why the 3 sites are closed for the week.” Lacroix plans to resume production on May 22, 2023.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

US government agencies warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting the U.S. CISA, the FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting U.S. Healthcare and Public Health sector with ransomware.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Since the demise of Conti in 2022, LockBit has been unchallenged as the most prolific ransomware group in the world. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. Return here for more information at: 11:30 GMT on Tuesday 20th Feb.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 18, 2023

July 18, 2022 – Around 30,000 websites get hacked every day , with the majority of those cyberattacks due to human error. This has projected costs associated with cybercrimes to hit the tens of trillions by 2025, highlighting the vital need for web hosts to implement staunch security. Gainesville, Fla.,

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

GoTo revealed that threat actors stole customers’ backups and encryption key for some of them FBI confirms that North Korea-linked Lazarus APT is behind Harmony Horizon Bridge $100 million cyber heist Meta Platforms expands features for EE2E on Messenger App CISA added Zoho ManageEngine RCE (CVE-2022-47966) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog (..)

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SecureWorld News

JULY 7, 2022

The FBI says that since May 2021, North Korea threat actors have used Maui to encrypt servers responsible for healthcare services, such as electronic health records services, diagnostics services, imaging services, and intranet services. The report was published on June 7, 2022.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Since December 2022, Cisco Talos researchers have been observing an unidentified financially motivated threat actor deploying two new malware, the MortalKombat ransomware and a GO variant of the Laplas Clipper malware. “Once executed, MortalKombat Ransomware encrypts data and generates files with a specific extension: .Remember_you_got_only_24_hours_to_make_the_payment_if_you_dont_pay_prize_will_triple_Mortal_Kombat_Ransomware.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2023

The real world impact of cybercrime rears its head once more, with word that 14 schools in the UK have been caught out by ransomware. One of the primary schools highlighted, Pates Grammar School, was affected on or around the September 28, 2022. Backup your data. Schools: A recurring target.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

“The department had reverted to its backup system, radio, to dispatch officers in response to 911 calls instead of its computer assisted dispatch system. The human-operated Royal ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in September 2022, it has demanded ransoms up to millions of dollars. reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

In March 2022, Western Digital was hit by a ransomware attack and in response to the incident, it shut down several of its services. As a security measure, the relevant database stored, in encrypted format, hashed passwords (which were salted) and partial credit card numbers. We are in the final!

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

The recent Hive infrastructure takedown as well as other major gangs dissolution such as Conti in 2022, is making room in the cybercrime business The Lockbit locker leaked a few months ago in the underground, is increasing its popularity and adoption among micro-criminal actors.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

According to a report from McAfee Enterprise and FireEye titled, "Cybercrime in a Pandemic World: The Impact of COVID-19," 81% of global organizations have experienced increased cyberthreats, and 79% experienced downtime from an attack during a peak season. Consider making cybersecurity training a priority in 2022. What is leakware?

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SecureList

APRIL 7, 2022

The group attempted to deploy the malware extensively within organizations in December 2021 and January 2022. The initial access was mistaken by the attackers for two different physical systems and drives to infect and encrypt. This GUID will be used later in the encryption key generation process.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2023

The threat actors initially compromised the company’s Windows domain controllers and then encrypted the VMware ESXi servers and backups. According to BleepingComputer , the company was a victim of the Black Basta ransomware operation. Now the Satellite TV giant has started notifying the impacted 296,851 individuals.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The actors used their access to move laterally within the network, encrypt network devices with BitLocker, and hold the decryption keys for ransom.". "In The actors used their access to move laterally within the network, encrypt network devices with BitLocker, and hold the decryption keys for ransom. police department.

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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. By February 2022, LAPSUS$ had pivoted to targeting high-tech firms based in the United States. Yes, they successfully encrypted the data.

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