Jane Frankland

MAY 18, 2025

This has given rise to Cybercrime-as-a-Service (CaaS) and Hacking-as-a-Service (HaaS)turnkey offerings that provide everything from ransomware kits to AI-generated malware and phishing campaigns. On the dark web, AI tools are traded like commodities by cybercriminal hacking groups, powering a thriving underground economy.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

Experts warn of phishing attacks that are combining the use of compromised Microsoft 365 accounts and.rpmsg encrypted emails. Trustwave researchers have observed threat actors using encrypted RPMSG attachments sent via compromised Microsoft 365 accounts in a phishing campaign aimed at stealing Microsoft credentials.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2021

Lile other ransomware operations, BlackMatter also set up its leak site where it will publish data exfiltrated from the victims before encrypting their system. “The group boasted about having the ability to encrypt different operating system versions and architectures. ” reported The Record.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 27, 2025

A hacker's claim, and denial from Oracle The story surfaced in early March when a hacker using the alias "rose87168" posted on a cybercrime forum, claiming responsibility for a massive data breach at Oracle. The attacker alleges that data was exfiltrated from Oracle Cloud's login infrastructure, specifically from the endpoint login.us2.oraclecloud.com.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 2, 2025

Rise in ransomware and cybercrime: Healthcare has become a prime target for cybercriminals. Attackers are not only encrypting data but also engaging in "double extortion," stealing sensitive patient information to demand higher ransoms. Every connected device or cloud app is a potential entry point. in a unified way.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

The cybercrime group behind Satan ransomware and other malware seems to be involved in the development of a new threat named 5ss5c. ru ) to the file name of each encrypted file, for example test.txt becomes [5ss5c@mail.ru ] test. SecurityAffairs – cybercrime, ransomware). dll –TargetIp . dll –TargetIp.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

The Akira ransomware operators implement a double extortion model by exfiltrating victims’ data before encrypting it. Earlier versions of the ransomware were written in C++ and the malware added the.akira extension to the encrypted files. “Akira threat actors utilize a sophisticated hybrid encryption scheme to lock data.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The encryption and decryption are not robust and the ransomware lack features like Windows Shadow Copy removal, File unlocking for a more thorough impact, Anti-analysis, and Defensive evasion (AMSI bypass, disabling event logging, etc.). At this point in this ransomware, the encryption process has already finished.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

It is unclear if the attackers have exfiltrated data from the systems before encrypting them. The attacker focused on encrypting data files in the Windows domain. According to security experts at Fox-IT, the ransomware attack is compatible with other attacks carried out by the TA505 cybercrime gang.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2025

Encryption Technologies: Encryption protects data confidentiality and integrity, but attackers also use it to conceal malware, establish encrypted communication channels, and secure stolen data. However, defenders use the cloud to implement security measures, such as IAM controls and encryption.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 23, 2022

And reports are in that Ragnar Locker Gang is demanding $12 million to free up data from encryption. Ragnar Locker Ransomware gang has officially declared that they are responsible for the disruption of servers related to a Greece-based gas operator DESFA.

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SecureList

JULY 5, 2021

Some of the victims have reportedly been compromised through a popular MSP software which led to encryption of their customers. The total number of encrypted businesses could run into thousands. agent.cer (encrypted agent.exe). Geography of attack attempts (based on KSN statistics). Indicators of Compromise.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Cybercrime has been steadily on the rise for the past years. Technical components: Website architecture must be reconfigured to ensure that search engines see multiple language versions of your website properlyas different subsets, not as duplicates. Nearly 3 billion records were stolen in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

Palo Alto Networks researchers discovered a new variant of the Mirai malware that is targeting more processor architectures than previous ones. Mirai botnet continues to be one of the most dangerous malware in the threat landscape, experts at Palo Alto Networks discovered a new variant that targets more processor architectures than before.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2024

This extortion campaign involved several security failures, including exposing environment variables, using long-lived credentials, and the lack of a least privilege architecture. This indicates that these threat actor groups are both skilled and knowledgeable in advanced cloud architectural processes and techniques.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

These apps activate the Coral SDK, which sends an encrypted POST request to a command-and-control (C2) server, containing details about the compromised device and the host app. The analysis of Happy SDK likely revealed a different variant of Necro that doesn’t have a modular architecture. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2022

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Our customers’ passwords remain safely encrypted due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture.” The company pointed out that customers’ passwords were not compromised due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture. . ” reads the notice of security incident published by the company.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Dual ransomware attacks resulted in a combination of data encryption, exfiltration, and financial losses from ransom payments. The government experts observed the threat actors using the following ransomware families: AvosLocker , Diamond, Hive , Karakurt , LockBit , Quantum , and Royal. ” continues the alert.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 21, 2025

Singh outlined several steps that Coinbase, and similar organizations, should consider: Zero-trust architecture with micro-segmentation Encrypted, inaccessible PII data even to internal agents Vendor oversight and frequent risk reviews Advanced social engineering defense training Coinbase's strategy may prove to be more than a PR pivot.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 8, 2024

LoanDepot has confirmed that the cyber incident involved unauthorized third-party access to certain systems, resulting in the encryption of data. Organizations large and small should implement a Zero-Trust security architecture with least-privilege access to ensure employees only have access to what they need to do their jobs.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 8, 2024

Businesses must ensure that they are using robust encryption methods to store passwords and encourage end-users to adopt strong, unique passwords for their accounts. Today, identity applications require both authentication and end-to-end encryption to provide robust cybersecurity protection.

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SecureList

MAY 11, 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. This means that their ransomware should be able to run on different combinations of architectures and operation systems.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

He previously chronicled the emergence of cybercrime while covering Microsoft for USA TODAY. Byron: It’s gone from simple file encryption to multifaceted, multi-staged attacks that leverage Dark Web services, such as initial access brokers (IABs,) as well as make use of Living off the Land (LotL) embedded tools.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 30, 2024

The cybercrime gang RansomHub has claimed responsibility and is threatening to release "a massive trove of sensitive personal information" belonging wealthy clients of Christie's unless their ransom demand is met. The world-renowned auction house Christie's has become the latest major corporation to fall victim to a ransomware attack.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 9, 2025

Organizations have respondedand must continue toby adopting AI-powered cybersecurity tools and implementing zero trust architecture as a critical countermeasure. Once inside, they will use legitimate credentials and access to do real damage, especially if the organization uses legacy architecture involving firewalls and VPNs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

According to experts from Avast, the Torii bot has been active since at least December 2017, it could targets a broad range of architectures, including ARM, MIPS, x86, x64, PowerPC, and SuperH. The Torii IoT botnet stands out for the largest sets of architectures it is able to target. ” reads the analysis published by Avast.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

Ransomware gangs also got stealthier in 2023, with ThreatLabz observing an increase in encryption-less extortion attacks. The absence of encryption allows attackers to eliminate development cycles and decryption support and quietly exfiltrate data before making ransom demands.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

After DarkSide actors gained access to the victim’s network, they deployed ransomware to encrypt victim data and—as a secondary form of extortion—exfiltrated the data before threatening to publish it to further pressure victims into paying the ransom demand. ” reads the joint alert.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2023

BleepingComputer confirmed that the zip archive contained “previously unknown encryptors for macOS, ARM, FreeBSD, MIPS, and SPARC” architectures. One of the encryptors developed by Lockbit, named ‘locker_Apple_M1_64’, can encrypt files of Mac systems running on the Apple silicon M1.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Fortunately, emerging trends in the financial technology sector may have the potential to turn the tide of cybercrime and keep our financial data safe. . SASE network architecture, like multi-cloud storage, brings multiple systems together to link security solutions for the greatest effect. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) networks.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The TeamTNT cybercrime gang has ramped up its attacks on the cloud over the past several months, this time launching a new malware campaign targeting Kubernetes clusters that culminated in a crytpojacking operation. Encrypts the malicious payload inside a binary to make automated static analysis more difficult.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Cyber security measures ensure this data is safeguarded against breaches, fraud, hacking, and other forms of cybercrime. Encryption, firewalls, and secure access controls are just a few of the measures that banks implement to ensure customer data remains protected. This drastically reduces the risk of unauthorized access.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Based on our findings, there are some similarities in both techniques and architectures with another cybercrime group, which appeared in the wild around 2012, most probably Romanian. 14 ) performs a first check on CPU architecture and a second one on the number of processors. Technical Analysis. The “ run ” script (shown in Fig.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

Although cybercrime as a whole has seen a rise during the pandemic, arguably ransomware has been one of the more successful and lucrative attack types. Our own research report, the State of Encrypted Attacks Report 2020 , found that there had been a 500 per cent rise in ransomware compared to 2019.

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SecureList

MAY 11, 2023

Security researchers discovered an archive that contained test builds of the malware for a number of less common platforms, including macOS and FreeBSD, as well as for various non-standard processor architectures, such as MIPS and SPARC. As for the second trend, we saw that BlackCat adjusted their TTPs midway through the year.

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