Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The similarities in code, class name, and registry key strings, led the experts into assessing with high confidence that the MortalKombat ransomware belongs to the Xorist family The malware campaign is targeting individuals, small businesses, and large organizations with the end goal of stealing or demanding ransom payments in cryptocurrency.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 6, 2022

Reports indicate a big run on phishing and scams. Where scams sometimes diverge from real fundraising sites is in requesting payment via cryptocurrency. While cryptocurrency is being used for some forms of genuine donation, it’s a bear-pit out there, and this should be a red flag. Cryptocurrency scamming is rampant.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Depending on the flow of infection, targets can expect to find a demand for payment to unlock encrypted files or sneaky malware looking to grab cryptocurrency details from system clipboard functions. The email is cryptocurrency themed, and claims that a payment of yours has “timed out” and will need resending.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

. “This advisory highlights TTPs and IOCs DPRK cyber actors used to gain access to and conduct ransomware attacks against Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector organizations and other critical infrastructure sector entities, as well as DPRK cyber actors’ use of cryptocurrency to demand ransoms.” Obfuscate Identity.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In a security blog about Octo Tempest Microsoft states: “Octo Tempest monetized their intrusions in 2022 by selling SIM swaps to other criminals and performing account takeovers of high-net-worth individuals to steal their cryptocurrency.” Create offsite, offline backups. Don’t get attacked twice.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Though we may be stuck with endless COVID-19 scams and a gradual visible rise in all manner of cryptocurrency hijinks, the old school attacks are as perilous as ever; CISA, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, have released their 2021 report detailing the increasing globalised threat of the ransomware menace.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As a matter of fact, the most-reported crime in the 2021 Internet Crime Report report was phishing , a social engineering scam wherein the victim receives a deceptive message from someone in an attempt to get the victim to reveal personal information or account credentials or to trick them into downloading malware. Technological tactics.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 30, 2023

million dollars-worth of illicit cryptocurrency profits. Qakbot is mostly spread through phishing campaigns that include malicious documents as attachments or links to download malicious files. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers.

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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. Unfortunately, contemporary events seem to confirm this.

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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. Impersonators are known to use phishing , Business Email Compromise (BEC) and domain spoofing to lure victims, and they’re always looking for new ways to innovate.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2022

It has been sold on underground hacker forums for stealing browser data, user credentials, and cryptocurrency information. LokiBot LokiBot is a Trojan malware for stealing sensitive information, including user credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other credentials. physically disconnected) backups of data. Enforce MFA.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

As the initial vector of their attacks, OldGremlin use spear phishing emails, to which the group adopted creative approach. In other instances, the gang exploited the COVID-19 theme and anti-government rallies in Belarus in their phishing emails. Up-to-date phishing. 1 Phishing email sent on behalf of a Belarusian plant.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2023

The Phishing email attack took place in the year 2021 and the Museum of Gloucester that identified the unauthorized intrusion is still being affected by the cyber incident. Acronis, the backup software developer and supplier, has downplayed the twitter speculations that its servers were compromised by a cyber-attack.

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Spinone

AUGUST 13, 2019

To be able to access them, you need a digital key, which you will get after you pay a ransom, usually in cryptocurrency. Google Drive Can Become a “Ricocheted Victim” of Ransomware T hrough the Backup & Sync Tool Backup & Sync is a free synchronization tool from Google. Educate yourself and your employees.

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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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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. taxpayers hit by a phishing campaign delivering the Amadey bot. Data leak exposes sensitive data of all Ecuador ‘citizens. MobiHok RAT, a new Android malware based on old SpyNote RAT.

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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. Google also references the Fancy Bear/APT28 Gmail phishing attack, which we covered last month.

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Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It targets the Windows operating system by encrypting data and demanding ransom payments in the form of cryptocurrency (Bitcoin). Notably, this technique was observed in a spear-phishing campaign from the threat actor NOBELIUM in May. We need to unzip the archive to access the executable. The countdown is also shown to the user.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. The now-defunct and always phony cryptocurrency trading platform xtb-market[.]com,

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Now that some companies have managed to avoid paying ransom by restoring from backup, the gangs have upped their game. This last point about lawyers and cryptocurrency hits home and bothers me the most. I certainly agree that the largely unregulated flow of cryptocurrency is unworkable and ultimately brings more harm than good.

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

This leads to a situation where employees are even more likely to fall victim to phishing attacks or malicious websites that lure employees with relevant COVID-19 headlines or subject lines. The ransomware then demands a sum of money in the form of untraceable cryptocurrency to unlock the data to regain access.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Backup – a copy of physical or virtual data so in case they are being deleted or lost user could easily recover it. Crypojacking – when a hacker unauthorisedly uses someone’s computing power to mine cryptocurrency. We highlighted in red all warning signs used to identify a phishing email. You did it!

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Victims pay ransomware adversaries for decryption keys through cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin. Attackers guess the passwords easily, find them in open source code repositories, or collect them via phishing. Hunt and destroy or encrypt backups hosted in local and cloud networks as well as virtual machine snapshots.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The attackers use the reverse shell to deploy a Bash stealer that collects data such as system information, browsing history, saved passwords, cryptocurrency wallet files and credentials for cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Azure). Otherwise, the reverse shell is created by the crond backdoor itself.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 8, 2021

The Russian-linked ransomware group encrypted entire networks in the Kaseya supply chain and demanded $70 million in cryptocurrency to deliver a universal decryptor key. It automates the installation of software and security updates and manages backups and other vital tasks.”. It stops if the victim is from a friendly country.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

These assaults specifically focus on compromising data repositories, backup systems, and vital records that are essential for recovery without capitulating to the attackers’ demands, thus increasing the likelihood of organisations acquiescing. Turn off services sc.exe – Stop backup software from creating recoverable copies.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. CISA reported that LokiBot “employs Trojan malware to steal sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, and other credentials.” Phishing and Social Engineering.

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Spinone

JANUARY 22, 2020

How WannaCry spreads The first step is standard for ransomware infection: a user opens a phishing email and downloads malicious attachment through which malware infects the computer. How Petya spreads Like WannaCry, at the first stage, Petya propagates via phishing emails when Windows users download infected email attachments.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Sodinokibi (or REvil) ransomware infects computers by exploiting a vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic and using phishing emails. Ransomware spreads by phishing emails (soon we’ll show you an example), infected USB devices, and many other ways you wouldn’t expect it to. Here’s an example of a typical phishing email.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Ransom payments are generally demanded in the form of untraceable cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin. As is often the case, the cost of restoring files from backups can amount to more than paying the ransom. Backups aren’t working. Ransomware today can actually look for backup files along with user data.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Phishing attacks: Deceptive techniques, such as fraudulent emails or websites, trick individuals into revealing sensitive information like credit card and payment information, passwords, or login credentials. Cryptojacking : Unauthorized use of a computer’s processing power to mine cryptocurrencies.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 6, 2021

If the compromise is only a minor inconvenience to the victim, and in the absence of a working backup, the victim may choose just to re-image the system. Mining cryptocurrencies requires large amounts of computing power to solve the cryptographic challenges necessary to acquire new cryptocurrency tokens.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 24, 2022

Encrypt and protect their most critical data (and their data backups) through zero-trust policies. Hacker groups such as LAPSUS$ can easily coordinate through Telegram and receive blackmail payoffs through cryptocurrency — with minimal threat to themselves. Assume that their data and their systems will be breached.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the meantime, we can look at alternative measures that make it harder for ransomware attackers to realise their profit, for example ensuring that existing financial regulations are being applied to cryptocurrency exchanges, crypto kiosks, and over-the-counter (OTC) trading “desks”.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The method of infection can vary from attack to attack and can include social engineering strategies, such as phishing and email spoofing , or a fraudulent website masquerading as legitimate, among others. To apply more pressure, the attacker might also encrypt backup files to render them inaccessible.

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Spinone

JANUARY 20, 2020

The most preferred method of ransom payment is cryptocurrency because it is hard to track. Phishing Phishing is a fraudulent practice that tricks people into opening malicious emails and clicking on fake links that infect your computer with ransomware. In fact, only 25% of home users have automatic weekly backups.

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