Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The report follows the Internet Organized Crime Assessment (IOCTA), Europol’s assessment of the cybercrime landscape and how it has changed over the last 24 months. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers.

Cybercrime 105

Cybercrime Ransomware DDOS Backups 105

SecureList

APRIL 18, 2022

Kaspersky experts have found a vulnerability in the Yanluowang encryption algorithm and created a free decryptor to help victims of this ransomware with recovering their files. This is necessary to make files used by other programs available for encryption. The encryption code for big files. Yanluowang description.

Encryption 119

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years. was used by a Russian-speaking member called Pin on the English-language cybercrime forum Opensc. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

Ransomware 244

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

A new ransomware strain named Rorschach ransomware supports the fastest file-encrypting routine observed to date. The researchers conducted five separate encryption speed tests in a controlled environment (with 6 CPUs, 8192MB RAM, SSD, and 220000 files to be encrypted), limited to local drive encryption only.

Encryption 85

Encryption Ransomware Malware Backups 85

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Before starting the encryption process, the ransomware attempts to stop multiple services. Once the encryption of the files is completed, it attempts to delete Volume Shadow (VSS) copies. The malware appends the extension.threeamtime to the filenames of encrypted files. 3AM is a brand new ransomware written in Rust.

Ransomware 109

Ransomware Encryption Cybercrime Backups 109

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices. Tripwire’s tips for all organizations on avoiding ransomware attacks include: Making secure offsite backups. Encrypting sensitive data wherever possible. ” .

Healthcare 275

Healthcare Backups Ransomware Insurance 275

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Phobos variants are usually distributed by the SmokeLoader , but in 8Base campaigns, it has the ransomware component embedded in its encrypted payloads. 8base” file extension for encrypted documents, a circumstance that suggested a possible link to the 8Base group or the use of the same code-base for their ransomware.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

LockBit is accused of extorting hundreds of companies and organizations globally by encrypting their data and demanding massive ransoms. By co-opting the ransomware group's own communication channels, police aimed to sow doubts in the cybercrime community reliant on LockBit's tools and services. Nonetheless.

Cybercrime 84

Cybercrime Ransomware Backups Encryption 84

SecureList

JUNE 22, 2023

KTAE shows similarities between LockBit Green and Conti Three pieces of adopted code really stand out: the ransomware note, the command line options and the encryption scheme. The group now usesa custom ChaCha8 implementation to encrypt files with a randomly generated key and nonce that are saved/encrypted with a hard-coded public RSA key.

Phishing 116

Phishing Encryption Cybercrime Ransomware 116

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

For months following ChatGPT’s release, the cybersecurity press was drenched in speculation about how cybercrime was changed forever, even though it didn’t appear to have changed at all. The prospect of ChatGPT lowering the barrier to entry into this lucrative form of cybercrime just wasn’t worth worrying about.

Ransomware 125

Ransomware Encryption Cybercrime Malware 125

Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2023

The threat actors also attempted to sell the stolen data on the BreachForums cybercrime forum that was recently shut down by law enforcement. The account was used to create database backups which were then downloaded and deleted. It also downloaded existing nightly full-backups of the database.

Data breaches 88

Data breaches Backups Passwords Accountability 88

Krebs on Security

JUNE 2, 2020

Lawrence Abrams , editor of the computer help and news Web site BleepingComputer , said while some ransomware groups have a history of selling victim data on cybercrime forums, this latest move by REvil may be just another tactic used by criminals to force victims to negotiate a ransom payment.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Alarming Reality of Fraud Fraud and cybercrime are pressing challenges for all sectors, including financial services. Fraud and cybercrime account for over 40% of all estimated crimes in England and Wales and affects more people more often than any other crime. billion annually.

Financial Services 105

Financial Services Encryption Cybercrime Threat Reports 105

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

. “Key Group ransomware uses a base64 encoded static key N0dQM0I1JCM= to encrypt victims’ data. The threat actor tried to increase the randomness of the encrypted data by using a cryptographic technique called salting. ” reads the report published by EclecticIQ.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The attacks frequently targeted small and tribal casinos, encrypting servers and the personally identifying information (PII) of employees and patrons.” . “Between 2022 and 2023, the FBI noted ransomware attacks compromising casinos through third-party gaming vendors. ” reported the PIN.

Ransomware 100

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SecureList

MAY 8, 2024

It utilizes customizable attack vectors, including deceptive tactics like a fake Windows Update screen displayed to mask the file encryption process, and employs security measures for testing purposes, such as checking for “Vaccine.txt” before executing.

Ransomware 114

Ransomware Encryption Small Business Cybersecurity 114

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The cybersecurity firm Bitdefender has released a free decryptor to allow LockerGoga ransomware victims to recover their encrypted files without paying a ransom. In order to decrypt the files, users have to provide the path containing pairs of clean-encrypted files. ” reads the announcement published by the security firm.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Since then, cybercrime group specialists from the North Rhine-Westphalia State Criminal Police Office (LKA NRW), together with the Cybercrime Central and Contact Point (ZAC NRW), carried out another targeted strike against people associated with the criminal network. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups.

Ransomware 119

Ransomware Backups Cryptocurrency Cybercrime 119

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

ValidCC , a dark web bazaar run by a cybercrime group that for more than six years hacked online merchants and sold stolen payment card data, abruptly closed up shop last week. Group-IB believes UltraRank is responsible for a slew of hacks that other security firms previously attributed to at least three distinct cybercrime groups.

Cybercrime 216

Cybercrime Media Accountability Hacking 216

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The attack took place on February 11 and encrypted data in the production servers. As a result of the attack, the system is down, files and databases are encrypted.” “During the night of February 11 to 12, 2024, a massive cyber ransomware attack took place on the production servers on which the HIS IT system runs.

Ransomware 105

Ransomware Backups Encryption Healthcare 105

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

Cybercrime has skyrocketed in the last few years, and the websites of small and medium-sized companies have been the most frequent target of web attacks. SSL Certificates for data encryption The S at the end of an HTTP connection indicates a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Users can restore the data at any time from SPanel.

Backups 97

Backups Cybercrime Authentication Accountability 97

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

“The threat actor then exported the native corporate vault entries and content of shared folders, which contained encrypted secure notes with access and decryption keys needed to access the AWS S3 LastPass production backups, other cloud-based storage resources, and some related critical database backups.”

Engineering 98

Engineering Backups Data breaches Passwords 98

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. Details after contacting on jabber: truniger@xmpp[.]jp.”

Ransomware 225

Ransomware Accountability Cybercrime Backups 225

Malwarebytes

MARCH 28, 2023

Not because I want to turn to a life of crime, but because some excitable commentators are convinced ChatGPT is going to find time in its busy schedule of taking everyone's jobs to disrupt cybercrime and cybersecurity too. What about some encryption? The most fundamental thing ransomware does is encrypt files. Is that OK?

Ransomware 98

Ransomware Encryption Backups Cybercrime 98

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Like other ransomware operations, BlackMatter also set up its leak site where it publishes data exfiltrated from the victims before encrypting their system. BlackMatter then remotely encrypts the hosts and shared drives as they are found. Scanning backups. Secret Service at a U.S. Secret Service Field Office.

Ransomware 105

Ransomware Backups Encryption Cybercrime 105

Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

Some variants of the ransomware append the English name of the target company to the filenames of the encrypted files. “The SFile ransomware uses the Mbed TLS library, RSA-2048 and AES-256 algorithms for file encryption. SFile ransomware (aka Escal), has been active since 2020 , it was observed targeting only Windows systems.

Ransomware 135

Ransomware Encryption Backups Malware 135

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.

Computers and Electronics 76

Computers and Electronics Backups Cybercrime Marketing 76

Spinone

AUGUST 20, 2018

Let’s discuss OS and software, antivirus, backup, mobile security, physical security and so on. G Suite Backup At least, use a separate ciphered external hard disk. Alternatively, choose an outside backup-provider for automated daily backup. End-to-end encryption means email are PGP / GPG and S/MIME.

Cybercrime 40

Cybercrime Antivirus Backups Encryption 40

Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2018

G Suite for Education backup and security should be taken seriously as GSFE (formerly known as Google Apps for Education) puts creative, nimble, and flexible learning at the center of the educational experience. How to Ensure G Suite for Education Backup and Security? What is Google G Suite for Education (GSFE)?

Education 40

Education Backups Cybersecurity Cyber threats 40

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

CHSF Hospital Centre in Corbeil-Essonnes is the healthcare service provider in discussion whose servers storing imaging and patient data were locked up by encryption. Interestingly, the hospital authorities have disclosed that they will not pay any ransom to the cyber criminals and will instead recover data from a backup plan.

Surveillance 104

Surveillance Backups Healthcare Cybercrime 104

Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2023

The decryptor also supports the “Scan Entire System” mode which allows users to search for all encrypted files. The user guide released by the security firm strongly recommends users of maintaining the “Backup files” option enabled. By checking the backup option, users will see both the encrypted and decrypted files.

Ransomware 92

Ransomware Antivirus Encryption Backups 92

Malwarebytes

MAY 24, 2023

A spokesman for the Central and Contact Point Cybercrime (ZAC NRW) at the Cologne public prosecutor's office confirmed corresponding knowledge of an incident in the early evening. After the data is copied, the ransomware encrypts files and gives them the ".basta" Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups.

Ransomware 88

Ransomware Backups Manufacturing Encryption 88

Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2021

It appears much of this database has been kicking around the cybercrime underground in one form or another since last summer at least. A cybercrime forum ad from June 2020 selling a database of 533 Million Facebook users. I also respond at Krebswickr on the encrypted messaging platform Wickr. billion active monthly users.

Mobile 343

Mobile Accountability Passwords Authentication 343

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 25, 2024

In how far new moves on the front of a United Nations Cybercrime Treaty will have a short-term effect on the behavior of state-sponsored groups is very hard to predict. Which means that for the visible part of cybercrime, the landscape is not likely to change dramatically. Stop malicious encryption.

Ransomware 82

Ransomware Government Social Engineering Spyware 82

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Like all ransomware, this is a type of malware that, once introduced into an organization, encrypts the data and then requires the victim to pay a ransom in order to decrypt it. Encrypted file structure ransomware BlackCat / ALPHV: [ORIGINAL_FILENAME].[ORIGINAL_extension].specific/different Black The LockBit 3.0 ORIGINAL_extension].specific/different

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Encryption and data backup. Data encryption is a protection strategy that renders data useless even when an intruder accesses it. Encrypting all your company’s sensitive data and private information ensures that it’s protected from data breaches.

Cybersecurity 121

Cybersecurity Insurance Passwords Encryption 121

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

. “The Babuk ransomware module, running within the process AddInProcess32, enumerates the processes running on the victim’s server and attempts to disable a number of processes related to backup products, such as Veeam backup service. ” reads the analysis published by Talos.

Ransomware 119

Ransomware Backups Encryption DNS 119