Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In 2023, the CL0P ransomware gang broke the scalability barrier and shook the security world with a series of short, automated campaigns, hitting hundreds of unsuspecting targets simultaneously with attacks based on zero-day exploits. Big game ransomware attacks are devastating but relatively rare compared to other forms of cyberattack.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The FBI published a PIN alert warning of ransomware operators compromising third-party vendors and services for initial access to target environments. The FBI continues to observe ransomware operators abusing third-party vendors and services as an attack vector. ” reported the PIN.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Researchers attribute the Raspberry Robin malware to the Russian cybercrime group known as Evil Corp group. IBM Security X-Force researchers discovered similarities between a component used in the Raspberry Robin malware and a Dridex malware loader, which was part of the malicious operations of the cybercrime gang Evil Corp.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), has confirmed that it was unprotected by antivirus software when it was attacked by the Medusa ransomware group in September. EDR can detect an intruder's suspicious activity in advance of them running ransomware, as well as being able to identify the ransomware itself.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Ransomware groups are constantly devising new methods for infecting victims and convincing them to pay up, but a couple of strategies tested recently seem especially devious. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned that Venus ransomware attacks were targeting a number of U.S. Last month, the U.S. healthcare organizations.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 24, 2023

The BlackBasta ransomware group has already claimed responsibility for the attack through its leak-site. 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. How to avoid ransomware Block common forms of entry.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2022

The QBot malware operation has partnered with Black Basta ransomware group to target organizations worldwide. Researchers from NCC Group spotted a new partnership in the threat landscape between the Black Basta ransomware group and the QBot malware operation. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Black Basta ransomware).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Alphv ransomware group added the Morrison Community Hospital to its dark web leak site. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group claims to have hacked the Morrison Community Hospital and added it to its dark web Tor leak site. Stats for 2022 in the link. Stats for 2022 in the link. million).

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

For the last two years the absolute worst, most prolific, most globally significant “big game” ransomware gang has been LockBit. This evening its position as ransomware’s biggest beast is suddenly in doubt, following some non-consensual website redecoration at the hands of the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA).

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 3, 2023

The Pierce County Public Transportation Benefit Area Corporation (Pierce Transit) has fallen victim to a cyberattack using LockBit ransomware. Based on the number of known attacks, Lockbit has been the most widely used ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) for some time now. How to avoid ransomware Block common forms of entry.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The LockBit ransomware group published data allegedly stolen from the aerospace giant Boeing in a recent attack. In 2022, Boeing recorded $66.61 billion in sales, the aerospace giant has 156,000 (2022). At the end of October, the Lockbit ransomware group added Boeing to the list of victims on its Tor leak site.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

The operators of the SFile ransomware (aka Escal) have developed a Linux version of their malware to expand their operations. SFile ransomware (aka Escal), has been active since 2020 , it was observed targeting only Windows systems. Recently, Rising captured the Linux platform variant of the ransomware.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 31, 2022

Costa Rica’s national health service was hacked sometime earlier this morning by a Russian ransomware group known as Hive. The intrusion comes just weeks after Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared a state of emergency in response to a data ransom attack from a different Russian ransomware gang — Conti.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 31, 2021

McAfee Enterprise and FireEye recently released its 2022 Threat Predictions. In this blog, we take a deeper dive into the continuingly aggressive role Nation States will play in 2022. Unfortunately, cybercrime has nonrepudiation and threat actors can deny all knowledge and get away with it. By Raj Samani. Prevention.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2022

At least 60 entities worldwide have been breached by BlackCat ransomware, warns a flash report published by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a flash report that states that at least 60 entities worldwide have been breached by BlackCat ransomware (aka ALPHV and Noberus) since it started its operations in November.

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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. Geographic distribution of Cuba victims Ransomware The Cuba ransomware is a single file without additional libraries.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2023

In a surprising turn of events, the ransomware gang responsible for targeting Toronto's SickKids Hospital has apologized for the attack and offered a free decryptor to the hospital. It was then two days after this statement that LockBit decided to reverse course on the ransomware attack. December 31, 2022. Healthcare ].

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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. Microsoft has discovered recent activity that links the Raspberry Robin worm to human-operated ransomware attacks. . The final-stage malware was the Clop ransomware. ” concludes the report.

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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. Schools: A recurring target. Avoiding the breach. Our advice is to never pay.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Antivirus company Bitdefender has released a free decryptor for the recently discovered ransomware family MortalKombat. Good news for the victims of the recently discovered MortalKombat ransomware , the antivirus firm Bitdefender has released a free decryptor that will allow them to recover their file without paying the ransom.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2024

The company has yet to disclose a data breach e never mentioned in its update that it was the victim of a ransomware attack. Such drastic containment measures are typically associated with malware infections, while the unavailability of affected systems often suggests a ransomware infection. The group claimed the theft of 1.5

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2022

Part I of this series examined newly-leaked internal chats from the Conti ransomware group, and how the crime gang dealt with its own internal breaches. Conti is by far the most aggressive and profitable ransomware group in operation today. 12, 2021, in regards to their ransomware negotiations with LeMans Corp.,

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

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

The City of Dallas, Texas, was hit by a ransomware attack that forced it to shut down some of its IT systems. The IT systems at the City of Dallas, Texas, have been targeted by a ransomware attack. However, CBS News Texas obtained an image the ransomware note dropped by the malware on the infected systems. Source J.D.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 8, 2023

One of Spain's leading hospitals, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, was hit by a ransomware attack on Sunday, March 5th, that affected its computer systems and forced the cancellation of thousands of appointments and surgeries. However, it was soon discovered to be linked to the WhiteRabbit ransomware encryptor and to other ransomware attacks.

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SecureList

JUNE 26, 2023

That same year saw one of the worst ransomware incidents in history, the Kaseya VSA supply-chain attack. According to the Kaspersky cyber-resilience report , in 2022, four in ten employers admitted that a cybersecurity incident would be a major crisis for their business, superseded only by a slump in sales or a natural disaster.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 21, 2021

There are few guarantees in the IT industry, but one certainty is that as the world steps into 2022, ransomware will continue to be a primary cyberthreat. The dangers from ransomware have risen sharply since WannaCry and NotPetya hit the scene in 2017, and this year has been no different. Cryptocurrency Fuels Ransomware.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2022

Ransomware supply chain triple-threat. Ransomware will continue to cause problems in supply chains and leverage so-called triple threat attacks. Targets who keep all files in the cloud only (no local or offsite backups) are great marks for blackmailers. The post Clouding the issue: what cloud threats lie in wait in 2022?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2023

NCR was the victim of the BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware gang, the attack caused an outage on the company’s Aloha PoS platform. NCR is suffering an outage on its Aloha point of sale platform since Wednesday after it was hit by a ransomware attack conducted by the BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware group.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

Ransomware attacks and data breaches make headlines when they shut down huge connected healthcare providers such as Ascension Healthcare or Change Healthcare. 2024 looks like it will only increase the number of affected individuals considering the scale of ransomware attacks from the first half of the year in the USA, Canada, and Australia.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Talos researchers observed a financially motivated threat actor using a new ransomware dubbed MortalKombat and a clipper malware named Laplas. Unlike other ransomware families, MortalKombat did not show any wiper behavior or delete the volume shadow copies on the infected system.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2023

Satellite TV giant Dish Network disclosed a data breach after the February ransomware attack and started notifying impacted individuals. In early February, the company admitted that the outage was caused by a ransomware attack. According to BleepingComputer , the company was a victim of the Black Basta ransomware operation.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q2 2022. We discovered a highly active campaign, starting in March 2022, targeting stock and cryptocurrency investors in South Korea. They are designed to highlight the significant events and findings that we feel people should be aware of.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

A new ransomware strain named Rorschach ransomware supports the fastest file-encrypting routine observed to date. Check Point Research (CPR) and Check Point Incident Response Team (CPIRT) researchers detected a previously unknown ransomware strain, dubbed Rorschach ransomware , that was employed in attack against a US-based company.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

“This is the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack on record, more than 35 percent higher than the previous reported record of 46 million RPS in June 2022,” Cloudflare’s Omer Yoachimik, Julien Desgats and Alex Forster wrote. attacks per day during Q4 2022, more than three times as many as in Q4 2021, according to Radware.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 22, 2023

While the luxury sports car maker said the attackers gained access to its network and then demanded a ransom not to leak data stolen from its systems, Ferrari is yet to disclose if this was a ransomware attack or just an extortion attempt. Ferrari N.V. announces that Ferrari S.p.A.,

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2022

The chipmaker giant Nvidia was recentty victim of a ransomware attack that impacted some of its systems for two days. The Lapsus$ ransomware gang is claiming responsibility for this attack, the group announced to have stolen 1 TB of data from Nvidia’s network. ” the LAPSU$ ransomware gang wrote on its Telegram change.

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