eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Nation-state cyber threat groups and ransomware attackers are moving in to exploit a critical flaw found in the seemingly ubiquitous Apache Log4j open-source logging tool, as attacks spread just days after the vulnerability that could affect hundreds of millions of devices was made public late last week. Expanding Log4j Attacks.

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BH Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2024

To our clients, thank you for entrusting us with the responsibility of helping you to protect your most valuable assets. The year may have changed but ransomware shows no signs of slowing. Symantec discovered a new ransomware strain in the wild, called TISAK. Although the blog focuses on the U.S.,

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. The FBI recently published a warning stating that ransomware gang OnePercent Group has been attacking companies in the US since November 2020. Ransomware is then downloaded and the breach is underway. OnePercent Group attacks.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2022

The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team monitors the threat landscape continuously and produces monthly ransomware reports based on a mixture of proprietary and open-source intelligence. Onyx is a new ransomware gang based on the old Chaos builder. Ransomware attacks in April 2022. Attacks by ransomware type.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 17, 2021

After a typical cyber attack perpetrated by the Darkside ransomware group, they would laugh all the way to their crypto wallets. And it appears someone has interfered with Darkside's operations and the group says that combined with "pressure from the U.S." Darkside ransomware group claims it is ceasing operations.

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SiteLock

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

What Is Babuk Ransomware? Babuk ransomware was discovered fairly recently, in early 2021, but it hasn’t taken long for this destructive new malware to gain notoriety. It has a number of bugs and doesn’t obfuscate its code, a tactic most threat actors use to prevent others from understanding it. What Does Babuk Ransomware Do?

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The Iranian hacker group TA453 has recently been using a technique that creates multiple personas to trick victims , deploying “social proof” to scam people into engaging in a thread. Spear phishing attacks have taken the dangers of traditional phishing to another level, mainly because it’s highly targeted and precise.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

A recent ransomware attack highlight the dangers of extraneous accounts sitting on your network – particularly those belonging to former employees. Leveraging these privileges, the attackers then exfiltrated hundreds of GB worth of data, and then as a final flourish unleashed the ransomware, impacting more than 100 systems.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 8, 2021

The most common vulnerabilities include: Lack of authentication/authorization and insecure defaults. Some deal with it better than others but given its older software, the ICS industry struggles more than most. For most ICS organizations, patching can be largely impossible. Ransomware Gangs Pursue ICS Facilities. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 28, 2023

The plan, which also covers social care services, has five key pillars, including identifying areas where disruption could produce the most harm to patients, building unified responses, and embedding security into the framework of emerging technology.

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SecureList

AUGUST 15, 2022

One of the most interesting aspects of this campaign is the group’s use of a man-on-the-side attack to deliver malware and control compromised computers. Sometimes, though, the LuoYu APT group will infect targets in other countries: Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, India, Russia and the US.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 5, 2021

A developer published via GitHub a proof-of-concept (POC) ransomware program featuring strong compatibility with the post-exploitation tool Cobalt Strike, open-source coding, and extensionless encryption. But this news also leads to some interesting questions: What are the motivations for posting a POC ransomware program online?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 18, 2023

Even as the threat has passed, Microsoft officials are still analyzing how a Chinese threat group was able to access U.S. Chinese hacker group Storm-0558 breached an undisclosed number of email accounts belonging to 25 organizations, including U.S. Microsoft has hardened security following a Chinese hack of U.S.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 21, 2021

And you probably get most of your news from the Internet. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and co-founder of Krebs Stamos Group, and Alan Shimel, CEO of MediaOps, explained how to weed through disinformation, what threats fake news pose to cybersecurity teams, and what we can do to help. Chances are, you don???t

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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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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

“The default is more secure and is expected to keep more users safe including home users and information workers in managed organizations,” Kellie Eickmeyer, a principal program manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post. Good on [Microsoft] for finally implementing this, but I don’t think it gets end users out of danger completely.

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SC Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Devon Ackerman, managing director and head of incident response for North America with Kroll’s Cyber Risk practice, said that the malicious actors behind this growing trend are “directly tied to ransomware groups” and are likely using automated scripts to seek out “Contact Us” or chat forms on the internet that they can abuse.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The discovery of the more than 20,000 DCIM software instances and products exposed to the internet makes it highly likely that there will be “increasing cyber threats towards data centers worldwide,” investigators with Cyble Research Labs wrote in a blog post. Default passwords protected these data centers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2022

The criminal group had been mailing malware-ridden USBs to various entities in the transport, insurance, and defense industries under the guise that they originated from a trusted source, such as Amazon and the US Department of Health and Human Services. To nominate, please visit:? Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

CISA Director Jen Easterly said in a statement over the weekend that the agency has created a Joint Cyber Defense Collaboration senior leadership group to coordinate actions within the government – including the FBI and National Security Agency (NSA) – and private sector to manage the risk. A Major Threat. through 2.14.1 Log4j attack traffic.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 6, 2022

Foxblade was developed and launched by the same group associated with Russian military intelligence that launched the NotPetya attack against Ukraine in 2017, Microsoft says. We remain the most concerned about government computers that are running on premises rather than in the cloud,” Microsoft said. Disperse to cloud. “We UTM Medium.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 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. At least 23 Texas local governments targeted by coordinated ransomware attacks. China-linked APT41 group targets US-Based Research University. Once again thank you!

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

While multimillion-dollar ransomware demands are shocking, they can be quickly forgotten. After all, these situations are eventually worked out, and it’s not as if anyone’s life is in danger. Pegasus is the creation of the NSO Group , an Israeli firm that licenses it to governments to perform surveillance. five years later.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 13, 2022

In addition, IT teams and other groups may rely on shell scripts to automate critical business functions such as onboarding new employees, backing up critical databases, or performing network security functions. However, the reality is that most containers aren’t particularly well protected. What Are Some Code Signing Use Cases? .

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. In fact, the group often announces its hacks on social media. .”

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

Ransomware has given security professionals a headache for the better part of a decade. And the carnage was not confined to US borders, though it was by far the most affected country. Germany, the UK, and Italy also registered high ransomware tallies. Top ransomware variants.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

It’s still showing up to drop ransomware and Trojans, harvest credentials, and spy on organizations like yours. That means that most spam that shows up isn’t really trying to do anything other than get you to respond, look at a product, or otherwise advertise a service. We’re talking about the email attack variety.

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

Despite the rising ransomware numbers and the numerous related headlines, many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) still don’t consider themselves at risk from cyberattacks. Smaller organizations are a prime target, and ransomware authors have only upped the ante in their methods to ensure they get paid.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 19, 2023

One such variety, ransomware, is a “trend” that has provoked cybersecurity teams for years. As trends go, it has more longevity than most. And there are no signs of ransomware attacks decreasing. However, we’re currently seeing an uptick in strains of ransomware exploitation. The good news? These days, that’s not enough.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 27, 2022

Fighting against ransomware can be difficult—especially if your organization has limited IT resources to begin with. But Adam Kujawa, security evangelist and director of Malwarebytes Labs, has a few tips for overburdened IT folks looking to simplify their fight against ransomware. 3 tips to simplify the fight against ransomware.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Ransomware attacks were defeated on the computers of 97,451 unique users. Last quarter, as per tradition, the most widespread family of bankers was ZeuS/Zbot (17.8%), but its share in Q2 almost halved, by 13 p.p. Ransomware programs. Ransomware attacks on large organizations continued in Q2. Closure of Avaddon.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

The number-one reported motive for a cyber breach is financial gain, and ransomware 3.0 In Australia, the threat of ransomware attacks has been growing, with the Australian economy reportedly losing up to $2.59 In the final instalment of this series, we cover the rise of ransomware 3.0 The Rise of Ransomware 3.0

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Disclaimer: when referring to APT groups as Russian-speaking, Chinese-speaking or other-“speaking” languages, we refer to various artefacts used by the groups (such as malware debugging strings, comments found in scripts, etc.) The most remarkable findings. … ?????? ??????!!! zip”).

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The threats and dangers posed by this conflict will be borne by the combatants and the people of Ukraine, and they are in our thoughts. Even in the worst-case-scenario of any ransomware attack, there’s at least a promise (which could admittedly be false) of a decryption key that can be purchased for a price.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

We attribute the campaign, named SnatchCrypto, to the BlueNoroff APT group, the threat actor behind the 2016 attack on Bangladesh’s central bank. The group uses various malware families, including Wroba, and attack methods that include phishing, mining, smishing and DNS poisoning. Roaming Mantis reaches Europe. zip”).

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Spinone

JULY 8, 2020

If you have decided that G Suite is the SaaS environment that makes the most sense for your business, is it compliant with HIPAA regulations? As an example, you may want to restrict sharing outside your organization to an organizational unit or configuration group. Passwords have long been a weak point in most environments.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It was the primary barrier to entry for most organizations with cloud infrastructure in the early days. Identity and Access Control in the Cloud One of the most often-overlooked areas of security is access permissions. Most of today’s businesses operate digitally at least at some level.

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