Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

The hackers hijacked the channels to spread cryptocurrency scams, while deleting some of the groups old videos in the process. The attack was largely reminiscent of a 2022 YouTube account hack that repurposed a 2018 interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook to fool viewers into following a separate cryptocurrency scam. Dont get attacked twice.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

The government alleges Khoroshev created, sold and used the LockBit ransomware strain to personally extort more than $100 million from hundreds of victim organizations, and that LockBit as a group extorted roughly half a billion dollars over four years. That’s what the government believes. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 30, 2024

That's a high-level generalisation, of course, but whether it's exploiting software vulnerabilities, downloading exposed database backups or phishing admin credentials and then grabbing the data, it's all in the same realm of taking something that isn't theirs. An incorrect assumption about the anonymity of cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2024

In all cases, the economic impact from ransomware is profound, affecting businesses, governments, and individuals globally. The Digital Currency of Crime Cryptocurrencies play a central role in ransomware economics by offering anonymity and privacy that traditional payment methods cannot match.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 8, 2025

This shift was supercharged by cryptocurrency, encrypted communication platforms, and the global reach of phishing. The anonymity of cryptocurrency fuels the ecosystem, offering frictionless payments while shielding both parties from law enforcement. Backups must be frequent , tested, and stored off-network.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Payment is made in cryptocurrency Ransom payments in pseudo-anonymous cryptocurrencies does allow the tracking of payments through the blockchain, but the real identity of the receiver can be hidden until the money is used to make payments or exchanged in fiat currency. Create offsite, offline backups.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

When a company is hit with ransomware, they’re often faced with three choices: pay up, lean on backups or rebuild the entire IT network. These insurers can do more to sharpen the kind of data they collect, push industry to adopt security standards set by government organizations like the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

These new attacks affect everything from private citizens and businesses to government systems; healthcare organizations; public services; and food, water, and fuel supply chains. Restoration is offered in exchange for a ransom, usually in cryptocurrencies. Backup and encryption. Backup solutions today provide fast recovery.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure conducted by North Korea-linked hacker groups are used by the government of Pyongyang to fund its malicious cyber operations, U.S. The government agencies detailed TTPs associated with North Korean APT groups such as: Acquire Infrastructure [ T1583 ]. Demand Ransom in Cryptocurrency.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Costa Rican government declared a national emergency , after attackers crippled govenrment systems and demanded $20 million to restore them go normal. Teach them to keep a full backup of all data. Paying ransom to hackers only encourages them to attack other business owners, governments, and educational institutions.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 10, 2024

We have seen several high-profile accounts that were taken over on X (formerly Twitter) only to be used for cryptocurrency related promotional activities, like expressing the approval of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). A spot Bitcoin ETF will buy the cryptocurrency directly, “on the spot”, at its current price, throughout the day.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The landscape of ransomware has undergone rapid evolution, shifting from a relatively straightforward form of malicious software primarily affecting individual computer users, to a menacing enterprise-level threat that has inflicted substantial harm on various industries and government institutions. How are victims of Ransomware exploited?

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 16, 2021

Pervasive attacks against healthcare, local government, schools and other forms of critical infrastructure are threatening our quality and safety of life every day. Governments can also mandate that more effort be made to look for alternatives prior to payment. There are things that governments should do too.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 27, 2022

Despite this, losses incurred through cryptocurrency aren’t included which could be a deal breaker for many people. The Indian Government has floated the idea of banning cryptocurrency on at least one occasion, but eventually moved to a less aggressive regulatory approach at the end of 2021.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 14, 2022

And the primary motive of the cyber criminals could be to search for businesses connected to cryptocurrency and finance. NOTE- On December 12th,2022, the Finland government is the first nation to support SMEs to bolster their IT Infrastructure with a possible financial backup in voucher form. . million accounts as customers.

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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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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In the last year, such attacks have swept through every sector, affected schools, hospitals, critical infrastructure, transportation and governments. It is a very difficult issue to address because it’s not something the government would typically be involved in,” Dermody added. ” Improving baseline cybersecurity.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 30, 2023

million dollars-worth of illicit cryptocurrency profits. But HIBP has also assisted governments, such as the UK, Australia, and Romania (to name a few), in monitoring for breaches in government domains. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Government of the Republic of South Africa owned utility ESKOM Hld SOC Ltd. “Administration servers, Databases, backups, employee access to the administration of POS terminals and much more. The criminals are demanding $200,000 for the stolen access, they accept both Bitcoin and Monero cryptocurrencies. Price 200,000 $.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 8, 2023

The agencies have reason to believe cryptocurrency ransom payments from such operations support DPRK's "national-level priorities and objectives." It’s far from rare to see a ransomware attack on governments, to be sure. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) governments were hammered by ransomware throughout 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

See also: Best Backup Solutions for Ransomware Protection. Expect to see increasingly sophisticated AI and machine learning -based attacks – and a growing regulatory response from governments around the world. Cryptocurrency is the Wild West of the digital world today. AI Attacks Lead to Regulation.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

Second is the news related to the government of Iran, whose servers have been targeted by a threat actor dubbed Backdoor Diplomacy between July and December 2022. Cybersecurity Insiders have resources data from its sources that the attack led to info leak related to companies in cryptocurrency and finance business fields.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2022

Microsoft Exchange Server massive attacks (March 2021) – At least tens of thousands of Microsoft customers may have been hacked by allegedly the China-linked APT groups since January, including business and government agencies. Because the tool was too slow, the company used its backups to restore the systems.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

France and Germany will block Facebooks Libra cryptocurrency. Backup files for Lion Air and parent airlines exposed and exchanged on forums. United States government files civil lawsuit against Edward Snowden. Data leak exposes sensitive data of all Ecuador ‘citizens. MobiHok RAT, a new Android malware based on old SpyNote RAT.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

For access to the decryption key, the victim must make prompt payment, often in cryptocurrency shielding the attacker’s identity. Offline Backups. While virtual backups are great, if you’re not storing data backups offline, you’re at risk of losing that data. Also Read: Best Encryption Tools & Software for 2021.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

His unique insights around cybersecurity-related topics shine a light on ransomware risk for organizations, government agencies, and the public. Reporting incidents gives the government and organizations a more accurate way to judge the scope of this problem. "We We still have things to figure out when it comes to cryptocurrency.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Government organizations combine the best of both the energy and healthcare industries for scammers, with government entities both having access to sensitive information and being necessary to the day-to-day lives of citizens. In 2020 alone, 79 ransomware attacks were conducted against government entities in the U.S.,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In other instances, the gang exploited the COVID-19 theme and anti-government rallies in Belarus in their phishing emails. Several weeks after the attack’s launch, the cybercriminals deleted server backups before encrypting the victim’s network with the help of TinyCryptor ransomware (aka decr1pt ), which is also OldGremlin’s brainchild.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 31, 2020

During an emergency Athens ISD board of trustees meeting Wednesday, the board voted to pay the ransom amount of $50,000 in cryptocurrency. The attack delayed the start of school by an entire week; and this was physical school, because many Texas students are attending class in person.

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SecureList

JANUARY 28, 2021

How are governments and enterprises going to react to this in 2021? Governments are going to be increasingly jealous of big-tech data hoarding – and increasingly active in regulation. The data that the big tech companies have on people is a gold mine for governments, democratic and oppressive alike.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

The attackers sent spear-phishing emails to European government workers responsible for managing transportation and population movement in Europe, with the aim of infecting them with the Sunseed Trojan. We discovered a highly active campaign, starting in March 2022, targeting stock and cryptocurrency investors in South Korea.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This is a scam that’s been around for years and since no one can reverse a cryptocurrency transaction, it’s very likely here to stay. government stimulus payments are also on the rise. Unfortunately, attacks like this work, and the hackers received $121,000 that was never paid back.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So far has been no long-term infrastructure damage, but attacks against vulnerable power infrastructure which are widespread or occur at critical times have the potential to be disruptive to government, commerce, and daily living. with decades of experience in cyber security and intelligence in industry and government.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

and Bulgaria seizing $454,530 in ransom payments laundered through cryptocurrencies, disrupting or seizing many of the group’s servers, shutting down their dark web communication channel with victims and arresting and charging a Canadian national they authorities claim acted as an affiliate.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

With victims now making progress against the threat of encryption and leveraging backups, threat actors will likely rely more heavily on the threat of extortion going forward. This, in turn, may spark law enforcement operations to prosecute cryptocurrency cyberattacks, but will come at the cost of reduced privacy to users.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

For example: “Of 50 recently compromised GCP instances, 86% of the compromised cloud instances were used to perform cryptocurrency mining, a cloud resource-intensive, for profit activity. 2FA, apps, backup codes, and advanced security settings are always better to have up and running than not at all.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 29, 2023

million in cryptocurrency, and removing the botnet’s associated Qakbot malware from hundreds of thousands of infected machines around the world. Next time, complain to your coworkers, not the federal government. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers.

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