Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2023

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2022

sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”). If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.) For the first expert interview on our blog, we welcomed Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter Byron V. He previously chronicled the emergence of cybercrime while covering Microsoft for USA TODAY.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

and Australia in sanctioning and charging a Russian man named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the leader of the infamous LockBit ransomware group. was used to register at least six domains, including a Russian business registered in Khoroshev’s name called tkaner.com , which is a blog about clothing and fabrics. “P.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017. ” The CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn Telegram channel was used by Russia-linked actors to leak stolen data and carry out DDoS attacks against selected targets.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Ransomware didn’t actually grow year on year; it held steady at 24 per cent of breaches. Security Week’s report focused on the rising cost to recover from a ransomware incident even as ransom amounts themselves are lower. Verizon believes this suggests ransomware victims are a higher proportion of smaller companies than before.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Ransomware an ongoing threat to industry as crime gangs organise Malware-based cyber-attacks are the most prominent threat to industry, Europol says. The agency’s spotlight report examines ‘crime-as-a-service’, lifting the cover on ransomware groups’ business structures. Ransomware reminders were plentiful lately.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2022

Cybercrime gang FIN7’s badUSB attacks serve as a reminder of two key vulnerabilities present among all organizations. Of course, when a rogue device executes a malware, ransomware, or DDoS attack, the organization knows it has suffered a breach (although often unaware it originated from a rogue device due to the visibility issue).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. TA505 cybercrime group use SDBbot RAT in recent campaigns. German firm Pilz still down a week after getting infected with ransomware. Winnti APT group uses skip-2.0

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This makes stealthy attacks incredibly popular in the cybercrime community. If you have a blog on your site, pay special attention to the comment section; attackers often use it to flood a site with nefarious or irrelevant links, which damages your reputation and your site’s domain authority. Ransomware.

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SecureList

APRIL 13, 2023

Introduction Although ransomware is still a hot topic on which we will keep on publishing, we also investigate and publish about other threats. In this blog post, we provide excerpts from the recent reports that focus on uncommon infection methods and describe the associated malware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

Necurs botnet is currently the second largest spam botnet , it has been active since at least 2012 and was involved in massive campaigns spreading malware such as the Locky ransomware , the Scarab ransomware , and the Dridex banking Trojan. ” reads a blog post published by the firm. ” continues the blog post.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

As the world marks the second Anti-Ransomware Day, there’s no way to deny it: ransomware has become the buzzword in the security community. Yet, much of the media attention ransomware gets is focused on chronicling which companies fall prey to it. Part I: Three preconceived ideas about ransomware.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2022

Folks, Who wants to dive deep into some of my latest commercially available research and stay on the top of their OSINT/cybercrime research and threat intelligence gathering game that also includes their team and organization? Dancho Danchev’s “Intell on the Criminal Underground – Who’s Who in Cybercrime for ” Presentation – [PDF].

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Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

In particular, we witnessed an increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and a surge in the usage of the internet of things (IoT). The cybercrime marketplace also continued to get more robust while the barrier to entry for malicious actors continued to drop. Ransomware.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That reporting was based on clues from an early Russian cybercrime forum in which a hacker named Rescator — using the same profile image that Rescator was known to use on other forums — claimed to have originally been known as “Helkern,” the nickname chosen by the administrator of a cybercrime forum called Darklife.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Wanted Ukrainian cybercrime suspect Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov (right) was arrested in Geneva, Switzerland. Ultimately, Penchukov’s political connections helped him evade prosecution by Ukrainian cybercrime investigators for many years. This was enough to positively identify Tank as Penchukov, Warner said.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2021

The FBI confirmed this week that a relatively new ransomware group known as DarkSide is responsible for an attack that caused Colonial Pipeline to shut down 5,550 miles of pipe , stranding countless barrels of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel on the Gulf Coast. victim that earns $15 billion in annual revenue. Image: colpipe.com.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2022

A DDoS attack took down Finnish govt sites as Ukraine’s President addresses MPs SharkBot Banking Trojan spreads through fake AV apps on Google Play China-linked threat actors target Indian Power Grid organizations A Mirai-based botnet is exploiting the Spring4Shell vulnerability? To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 20, 2023

For the purpose of this blog – we are going to use the term information security to mean both cyber and information security. For example, perhaps availability was compromised after a malware attack such as ransomware, but the systems in place were still able to maintain the confidentiality of important information.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit some government websites. The following day, Avast Threat Research announced the discovery of new Golang ransomware in Ukraine , which they dubbed HermeticRansom and which we call ElectionsGoRansom. They stole, or abused in other ways, many more (over 7,000 according to our estimates).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Protect Your Organization from Cybercrime-as-a-Service Attacks madhav Thu, 10/12/2023 - 04:53 In years gone by, only large enterprises needed to be concerned with cybercrime. However, Cybercrime-as-a-Service (CaaS) offerings have essentially democratized cybercrime. What is Cybercrime-as-a-Service?

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit several government websites. The following day, Avast Threat Research announced the discovery of new Golang ransomware in Ukraine , which they dubbed HermeticRansom.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

In March, Proofpoint published a blog post about a new spear-phishing campaign related to the war in Ukraine, tentatively attributed to the Russian-speaking actor UNC1151 (aka TA445 and Ghostwriter). As part of this process, the actor abused a legitimate blog service to host a malicious script with an encoded format.

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