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Operation Phobos Aetor: Police dismantled 8Base ransomware gang

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The 8Base ransomware group has been active since March 2022, it focused on small and medium-size businesses in multiple industries, including finance, manufacturing, business services, and IT. Disable system recovery, backup and shadow copies and the Windows firewall.

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8Base ransomware operators use a new variant of the Phobos ransomware

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The group has been active since March 2022, it focused on small and medium-size businesses in multiple industries, including finance, manufacturing, business services, and IT. Security experts attributed 67 attacks to the group in May 2023, most of the victims are in the U.S. and Brazil.

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Over 39K unauthenticated Redis services on the internet targeted in cryptocurrency campaign

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This may allow hackers to gain server privileges, delete or steal data, or even lead to an encryption extortion, critically endangering normal business services.” ” reads the post published by Zhu on September 11, 2022. The crontab entries allowed the attackers to execute a shell script hosted on a remote server.