Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

.” New York City-based cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint said the Snatch ransomware group was created in 2018, based on Truniger’s recruitment both on Russian language cybercrime forums and public Russian programming boards. “The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 9, 2020

City officials now say they plan to pay the ransom demand, in hopes of keeping the personal data of their citizens off of the Internet. Nevertheless, on Friday, June 5, the intruders sprang their attack, deploying ransomware and demanding nearly $300,000 worth of bitcoin.

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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.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The FBI and other global law enforcement teams worked together on this case, compromising backups that were later restored by the gang, giving authorities access to internal systems, a tactic often deployed by the gang itself. Are the backups stored offline? Have we tested our ability to revert to backups during an incident?".

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

.” I wrote about the pending Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2002 (CSEA) and said: “ The problem with this legislation is that it's often very difficult to determine who is responsible for any given cybercrime. Is it the hospital, which should have had a power backup? Who is responsible?

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