SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years. But our visibility showed otherwise. Key trends.

Cybercrime 138

Cybercrime Banking Malware Ransomware 138

Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

A Ukrainian security researcher this week leaked several years of internal chat logs and other sensitive data tied to Conti , an aggressive and ruthless Russian cybercrime group that focuses on deploying its ransomware to companies with more than $100 million in annual revenue. The Contileaks account did not respond to requests for comment.

Ransomware 268

Ransomware Healthcare Cybercrime Government 268

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. PhilHealth is the government owned and controlled corporation that provides universal health coverage in the Philippines.

Antivirus 101

Antivirus Insurance Ransomware Healthcare 101

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 27, 2023

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that it has successfully taken down the HIVE ransomware network, an international cybercrime ring that had been responsible for stealing and encrypting the data of more than 1,500 companies from 80 different countries. Cybercrime is a constantly evolving threat.

Ransomware 87

Ransomware Cybercrime Cryptocurrency Telecommunications 87

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.

Ransomware 72

Ransomware VPN Cybercrime Accountability 72

Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2023

According to government experts, the Royal ransomware attacks targeted numerous critical infrastructure sectors including, manufacturing, communications, healthcare and public healthcare (HPH), and education. The Royal ransomware can either fully or partially encrypt a file depending on its size and the ‘-ep’ parameter.

Ransomware 94

Ransomware Healthcare Antivirus Encryption 94

Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2022

Upgrade it now! Unfaithful HackerOne employee steals bug reports to claim additional bounties Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2022 CISA orders federal agencies to patch CVE-2022-26925 by July 22 Tens of Jenkins plugins are affected by zero-day vulnerabilities Microsoft: Raspberry Robin worm already infected hundreds of networks.

Cybercrime 90

Cybercrime Data breaches Ransomware Healthcare 90

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2022

The investigation into the incident revealed that threat actor used a public-facing Citrix server as a point of entry, they likely used a valid account to access this server and perform lateral movements inside the victim’s network. The ransomware was employed in a targeted attack against one of the company’s customers.

Ransomware 98

Ransomware Encryption Accountability Antivirus 98

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The City of Dallas revealed that the Royal ransomware gang that hit the city system in May used a stolen account. “Royal’s initial access utilized the basic service domain service account, connecting to a server. In May 2023, a ransomware attack hit the IT systems at the City of Dallas , Texas. ” reads the report.

Ransomware 109

Ransomware Surveillance Healthcare Accountability 109

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 9, 2024

According to those few groups, their cybercriminal actions would never include organizations actively involved in healthcare, such as hospitals. Unfortunately, we have seen these type of disruptions in healthcare before. Over time, swatting has evolved from a dangerous type of prank to a cybercrime that can be ordered as a service.

Ransomware 79

Ransomware Passwords Backups Healthcare 79

Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

According to government experts, the Royal ransomware attacks targeted numerous critical infrastructure sectors including, manufacturing, communications, healthcare and public healthcare (HPH), and education. reads the alert.

Ransomware 96

Ransomware Healthcare Education Encryption 96

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The attack disrupted services at several Irish hospitals and resulted in the near complete shutdown of the HSE’s national and local networks, forcing the cancellation of many outpatient clinics and healthcare services. To get up to speed, I interviewed over a dozen of the healthcare security industry’s best and brightest minds.

Healthcare 263

Healthcare Ransomware Antivirus Software 263

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In typical Conti ransomware attacks, malicious cyber actors steal files, encrypt servers and workstations, and demand a ransom payment.” Experts speculate the operators are members of a Russia-based cybercrime group known as Wizard Spider. Secure user accounts. and international organizations. ” reads the advisory.

Ransomware 102

Ransomware Cybercrime Authentication Healthcare 102

Identity IQ

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The methods used by cybercriminals in 2023 varied with cyberattacks, physical attacks, and system errors targeting everything from critical infrastructure to manufacturing to healthcare databases. This signals a new era of cybercrime where private data becomes prized currency, putting every email address and credit card number at risk.

Data breaches 72

Data breaches Identity Theft Cybercrime Social Engineering 72

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

While investigating a data breach suffered by a healthcare organization, FBI accidentally revealed that it believes that the HelloKitty ransomware gang operates out of Ukraine. The HelloKitty ransomware group, like other ransomware gangs, implements a double extortion model, stealing sensitive documents from victims before encrypting them.

Ransomware 95

Ransomware Data breaches DDOS Healthcare 95

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The hospital is still facing problems and we account exclude that other patients will be transferred in other structures. According to local media, threat actors demand a $10 million ransom to provide the decryption key to restore encrypted data. ” reported AFP. In France, the law prohibits public establishments to pay ransoms.

Ransomware 98

Ransomware Healthcare Cyber Attacks Hacking 98

Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2022

The ransomware was involved in attacks aimed at technology and healthcare, defense contractors, educational institutions, manufacturers, companies across Europe, the United States, and Canada. To each encrypted file, it appends a randomized nine-digit hexadecimal number as an extension. ” reads the joint advisory. “The

Ransomware 91

Ransomware Encryption Firmware Backups 91

Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million

Data breaches 93

Data breaches DDOS Artificial Intelligence Ransomware 93

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

Some advanced network monitoring tools can automate this process, restricting accounts when they behave irregularly. Encrypt Data at All Points. Another crucial step in securing health care data is encrypting it. Another crucial step in securing health care data is encrypting it. Train Employees in Best Practices.

Penetration Testing 105

Penetration Testing Encryption Social Engineering Phishing 105

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that cybercrime stops for nothing. The healthcare professionals, teachers and other essential workers rightly deserve the loudest acclaim, but heroes emerged in all areas of life. In short, in 2020, cyberthreats evolved. As you can see from these findings, 2020 proved to be a tumultuous year.

Malware 121

Malware Scams Spyware Healthcare 121

Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. locked to the filename of the encrypted files. Once compromised the target network, attackers attempt to exfiltrate the company’s accounts and passwords database.

Education 99

Education Ransomware Encryption Antivirus 99

Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Data breaches caused by weak security measures and procedures result in severe monetary losses, erosion of clients’ trust, and irreversible reputation damage to organizations in the healthcare, financial services, technology, and retail industries, as well as government and public sector entities.

Data breaches 52

Data breaches Healthcare Telecommunications Financial Services 52

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. To this end, some impressive technology has been created to combat the technological side of the issue, to keep hackers and similar bad actors from accessing data and account privileges they shouldn’t. In 2021 alone, IC3 received 847,376 complaints which amounted to $6.9

Social Engineering 120

Social Engineering Energy and Utilities Phishing Scams 120

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2021

We also can’t forget standing administrative privileges and service accounts used by systems, services, and things. Once we spotlight these accounts, we can decide whether the risk they create is worth the value they provide. Next, we need to do a better job of securing the accounts we do need.

Ransomware 105

Ransomware Financial Services Accountability Retail 105

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. Cryptolocker and exploit components.

Malware 101

Malware Computers and Electronics Encryption Ransomware 101

SecureWorld News

AUGUST 10, 2021

Now for access as a service, you're getting a username and password to a database, or to the back end of the administrative account, to a hospital or to a bank. IntSights reports the lowest asking price was $240 for a healthcare organization in Columbia. The price for network access can range quite a bit.

Telecommunications 98

Telecommunications Marketing Ransomware Accountability 98

Malwarebytes

APRIL 27, 2021

According to the company, its password manager is used by more than 29,000 customers across the industries of banking, retail, manufacturing, education, healthcare, government, aerospace, and more. That estimate may increase though, said Click Studios, as it continues to investigate.

Password Management 89

Password Management Passwords Malware Retail 89

Malwarebytes

MARCH 18, 2022

Because Exotic Lily’s methods involved a lot of detail, they are believed to require a level of human interaction that is rather unusual for cybercrime groups focused on large scale operations. The RaaS will provide the encryption software, the contact and leak sites, and negotiate the ransom with the victim.

Ransomware 90

Ransomware Malware Social Engineering Media 90

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In wider action coordinated by Europol, two LockBit actors have been arrested this morning in Poland and Ukraine, over 200 cryptocurrency accounts linked to the group have been frozen.” The NCA will reach out to victims based in the UK in the coming days and weeks, providing support to help them recover encrypted data.

Energy and Utilities 94

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Manufacturing Financial Services 94

SecureWorld News

JULY 2, 2020

While we stopped the attack as it was occurring, the actors launched malware that encrypted a limited number of servers within the School of Medicine, making them temporarily inaccessible," the university said. And those servers, like servers at any organization, contained valuable information which was encrypted by the ransomware.

Ransomware 104

Ransomware Encryption Healthcare IoT 104

CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Still, because of the overwhelming pressure the healthcare sector suffered due to the Covid-19 pandemic, they were left more vulnerable to cybercrime. As a result of these attacks, healthcare service vendors and agents have had to change how they organize and store data in order to decrease the risks of a similar breach.

Phishing 124

Phishing Healthcare Data breaches Cyber Attacks 124

Digital Shadows

JANUARY 18, 2023

Data-Leak Extortionists Are Here to Stay Data-leak extortionists solely use data exfiltration to squeeze ransom payments from victims, whereas ransomware groups do that and more: stealing, encrypting and posting sensitive data (aka double extortion). They cited his transfer of “dirty” Bitcoin from a ransom account to his personal account.

Ransomware 40

Ransomware Accountability Healthcare Data breaches 40

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In wider action coordinated by Europol, two LockBit actors have been arrested this morning in Poland and Ukraine, over 200 cryptocurrency accounts linked to the group have been frozen.” The NCA will reach out to victims based in the UK in the coming days and weeks, providing support to help them recover encrypted data.

Energy and Utilities 105

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Manufacturing Financial Services 105

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2020

Over the course of a month, the crooks, posing as a known vendor, used faked email messages to entice school district personnel to make three bank transfers into accounts controlled by the criminals. BEC campaigns accounted for an estimated $26 billion in cybercrime-related losses reported to the FBI over a three year period.

Scams 147

Scams Social Engineering Ransomware Engineering 147

SecureList

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

the number of victims of healthcare data leaks grew by more than 1.5 Authentication for data transfer using this port is completely optional, and even when authentication is present, there is no encryption; in other words, the authentication data is sent as readable text. Bait and hook—with a medical theme. Conclusion.

Phishing 120

Phishing Healthcare IoT Authentication 120

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It can shut down your business – in the case of healthcare organizations that can be life-threatening for patients – damage your reputation with customers and employees, and invite further attacks as cybercriminals view your organization as an easy mark. All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.”

Ransomware 97

Ransomware Backups Software Encryption 97

BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

An attacker calling themselves ‘ransom_man’ published 300 treatment records originally belonging to Vastaamo, a healthcare provider, on Tor. Two lessons emerge from this incident : the first is accountability. Under the EU GDPR, a ransomware attack that leads to personal data being encrypted is deemed a data breach.

Data breaches 52

Data breaches Ransomware Risk Cyber Risk 52