Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov , the accused 40-year-old Ukrainian leader of a prolific cybercriminal group that stole tens of millions of dollars from small to mid-sized businesses in the United States and Europe, has been arrested in Switzerland, according to multiple sources. Penchukov was named in a 2014 indictment by the U.S.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 9, 2023

This article is based on research by Marcelo Rivero, Malwarebytes' ransomware specialist, who monitors information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web sites. In this report, "known attacks" are those where the victim didn't pay a ransom. MalasLocker: The Robin Hood of ransomware?

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

Cyber security is an arms race where both attackers and defenders continually update and improve their tools and ways of working. To ensure that our managed services remain effective against the latest threats, NCC Group operates a Global Fusion Center with Fox-IT at its core. Attribution and Actor Background. Actor Tracking.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 9, 2023

Now that the existence of this group is public, we will also share some of our information about the actor and its tactics. Our investigation could be helpful to the community as we will provide new undisclosed data about the group. Finally, we will reveal unknown scripts and malware run by the group in this report.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

After hearing a talk, a Dallas-based hacker set out to find out what was going on inside the smart meter attached to his home, and what he found was surprising. The cold weather and loss of power turned deadly. You don't have enough power in the state to turn them back out, which is where Texas finds itself.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 10, 2023

With advanced language-based AI tools like ChatGPT growing increasingly accessible, the battle to prevent phishing attacks from impacting users is no longer answerable with just one security solution. A shifting IT environment also contributes to complexity and expanding attack surface. PCI DSS, HIPAA, etc.)

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Mobile devices exposed to wide attacks. Last June, Google’s TAG team released a blog post documenting attacks on Italian and Kazakh users that they attribute to RCS Lab, an Italian offensive software vendor. BruteRatel, an attack tool comparable to CobaltStrike, remains on our radar when it comes to APT adoption.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 11, 2021

Ransomware is an epidemic that adversely affects the lives of both individuals and large companies, where criminals demand payments to release infected digital assets. For instance, a dissatisfied employee might decide to partner up with a RaaS developer to effectively infect an organization from the inside and then splitting the profit.

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Fox IT

MAY 4, 2021

Since September 2019, Fox-IT/NCC Group has intensified its research into known active Gozi variants. These are operated by a variety of threat actors (TAs) and generally cause financial losses by either direct involvement in transactional fraud, or by facilitating other types of malicious activity, such as targeted ransomware activity.

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