Herjavec Group

APRIL 29, 2022

Ransomware and the OT Environment: Am I Safe? Ransomware is everywhere. Though the ransomware never made it into the ICS network, the system was taken offline as a preventative measure causing major disruptions to fuel supplies on the East Coast. Contributed By: Chris Thomas, Senior Security Consultant. It’s all over the news.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Ransomware Sanctions: Do They Have Any Impact? madhav Thu, 12/14/2023 - 05:37 Ransomware is one of the most high-profile and high-value cybercrimes that organizations need to watch out for. Sanctions can be leveled against criminal organizations, individuals, or groups from certain countries in an effort to curb ransomware attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2022

At least 60 entities worldwide have been breached by BlackCat ransomware, warns a flash report published by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a flash report that states that at least 60 entities worldwide have been breached by BlackCat ransomware (aka ALPHV and Noberus) since it started its operations in November.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 13, 2021

These days, every major ransomware campaign runs a “double extortion” method, a scary prospect for small businesses. The Nastiest Ransomware of 2021 that made headlines with supply chain attacks Many attempts to shutdown the REvil group have so far failed Their ransomware as a service (RaaS) platform is on offer to other cybercriminals.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2023

The Vice Society ransomware gang is back and making some unfortunate waves in the education sector. According to Bleeping Computer, the Society has held their ransomware laden hands up and admitted an attack on the University of Duisberg-Essen. Ransomware and a destroyed network. The shattering impact of a ransomware outbreak.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

But then malware incidents started to rise, and some high-profile breaches and ransomware cases became public. The availability of exploit kits that automate the process of targeting known vulnerabilities with malware has made it easier for the weekend hacker to launch attacks. In other words, poor device hygiene. Think of it this way.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Equinix, one of the world’s largest providers of colocation data centers and Internet connection announced it was hit by Netwalker Ransomware. Equinix, one of the leaders in the global colocation data center market share, with 205 data centers in 25 countries on five continents, was hit by Netwalker ransomware operators.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In recent months, we have written private reports on a wide range of topics, such as new cross-platform ransomware, macOS stealers and malware distribution campaigns. In this article, we share excerpts from our reports on the FakeSG campaign, the Akira ransomware and the AMOS stealer. AMOS Stealers are growing in popularity.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 30, 2021

A recent warning from the FBI, in mid-March, put schools in the US and UK on notice of increased attacks from the threat actors behind the PYSA ransomware. What is PYSA ransomware? The PYSA ransomware is a variant of the Mespinoza ransomware. Leaks of exfiltrated data landed on PYSA’s blog. We sure do.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

The Cuba Ransomware gang has partnered with the crooks behind the Hancitor malware in attacks aimed at corporate networks. Group-IB Threat Intelligence & Attribution team found that Hancitor is being actively used by the threat actors to deploy Cuba ransomware. Cuba ransomware has been active since at least January 2020.

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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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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. But this doesn’t mean Babuk ransomware isn’t dangerous. What Does Babuk Ransomware Do? So, what is Babuk ransomware and what exactly does it do?

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SecureList

AUGUST 15, 2022

Targeted attacks. Earlier this year, we discovered a malicious campaign that employed a new technique for installing fileless malware on target machines by injecting a shellcode directly into Windows event logs. IT threat evolution in Q2 2022. Non-mobile statistics. IT threat evolution in Q2 2022. Mobile statistics.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2019

Security experts at FireEye observed the financially motivated group FIN6 adding the LockerGoga and Ryuk ransomware to its arsenal. According to cybersecurity experts at FireEye, the FIN6 cybercrime group is diversifying its activities and added LockerGoga and Ryuk ransomware to its arsenal. Pierluigi Paganini.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

BlackMatter is a new ransomware threat discovered at the end of July 2021. As with previous ransomware, the operators steal files and private information from compromised servers and request an additional ransom to not publish on the internet. With these names it will calculate the custom hash and check against the target hashes.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

BlackMatter is a new ransomware threat discovered at the end of July 2021. As with previous ransomware, the operators steal files and private information from compromised servers and request an additional ransom to not publish on the internet. With these names it will calculate the custom hash and check against the target hashes.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

As anticipated in the last Analyst Prompt, the spate of cyberattacks targeting Ukraine and Western organizations continued in week three of the war. Large scale cyber-attacks with major impact on Ukrainian infrastructure or services have not been observed. RUSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR 2022: Cyberattacks Reported At High Frequency.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 9, 2022

The ongoing campaign has targeted more than 10,000 Office 365 organisations since September 2021, using ‘adversary in the middle’ (AiTM) sites to steal passwords and hijack login sessions. Microsoft’s extensive blog has more details. To MFA or not to MFA, that is the question.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

reads a blog post published by Hutchins. The vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2019-0708, impacts the Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and was addressed by Microsoft with May 2019 Patch Tuesday updates. Locate and patch exposed RDP services now. They only expose port 3389.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2019-0708, impacts the Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and was addressed by Microsoft with May 2019 Patch Tuesday updates. Locate and patch exposed RDP services now. ” reads the advisory published by the ACSC.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2022

Conti — one of the most ruthless and successful Russian ransomware groups — publicly declared during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic that it would refrain from targeting healthcare providers. But according to Microsoft and an advisory from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2022

Having spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, threats such as malware, ransomware, and DDoS attacks continue to accelerate. This includes a notable 2X increase in the number of obscure potential amplification weapons such as Apple Remote Desktop (ARD). Ukraine targeted. Related: Apple tools abuse widespread.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

Ransomware has given security professionals a headache for the better part of a decade. Germany, the UK, and Italy also registered high ransomware tallies. To understand how we got here, let’s first take a closer look at recent statistics on the top ransomware variants, countries and industries attacked. Top ransomware variants.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 16, 2021

This blog post was originally created by Jeremy Rasmussan, Chief Technology Officer at Abacode. Read the original blog here. . Abacode has seen Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP, IANA port 3389 ) used in dozens of successful attacks against businesses. Once is a fluke. Twice a pattern. What is RDP? What should you do?

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SecureList

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In the past twelve months, the word “ransomware” has popped up in countless headlines worldwide across both print and digital publications: The Wall Street Journal , the BBC , the New York Times. That is precisely why we have chosen ransomware as our story of the year for Kaspersky’s annual Security Bulletin.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The ransomware attacks that make headlines and steer conversations among cybersecurity professionals usually involve major ransoms, huge corporations and notorious hacking groups. Kia Motors, Accenture, Acer, JBS…these companies were some of the largest to be compromised by ransomware in 2021.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

On February 23, ESET published a tweet announcing new wiper malware targeting Ukraine. The following day, Avast Threat Research announced the discovery of new Golang ransomware in Ukraine , which they dubbed HermeticRansom.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Threat actors are continually looking for better ways to target organizations, here are the top five attack vectors to look out for in 2022. Some phishing scams target particular individuals because of their close proximity to sensitive information or because those individuals are likely to have administrative access to network resources.

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SC Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

In a blog post , Lookout researchers said as more users access cloud services and infrastructure from mobile devices, attackers deliberately target phones, tablets and Chromebooks to increase their odds of finding a vulnerable entry point. (Uris at English Wikipedia/ CC BY-SA 3.0 ).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2020

How Ransomware attacks leverage unprotected RDPs and what you can do about it. As mentioned in my colleague Charles Goldberg’s blog post earlier this year, “ Stop Ransomware in its Tracks with Strong Data Security ,” ransomware attacks targeting enterprises in a variety of sectors have skyrocketed during the first half of 2020.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Ransomware attacks were defeated on the computers of 97,451 unique users. 8. . ** Unique users whose computers were targeted by financial malware as a percentage of all unique users of Kaspersky products in the country. Ransomware programs. Ransomware attacks on large organizations continued in Q2. Financial threats.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 4, 2022

This blog post was authored by Hasherezade, Ankur Saini and Roberto Santos. As we were analyzing this data wiper, other research has come out detailing additional components were used in this campaign, including a worm and typical ransomware thankfully poorly implemented and decryptable. Behavioral analysis. Icon used by HermeticWiper.

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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. Wait a minute, this sounds like SaaS (Software as a Service) with the exception of mal-intent and ‘R’ prefix instead of ‘S’ ? What led to the inception of RaaS ?

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Fox IT

MAY 4, 2021

In this post we provide some history, analysis and observations on this most pernicious family of banking malware targeting Oceania, the UK, Germany and Italy. Gozi ISFB started targeting financial institutions around 2013-2015 and hasn’t stopped since then. Banking malware targeting mainly Europe & Oceania.

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