SC Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Six weeks after a ransomware attack, much of the Ireland HSE is still facing care disruptions. The Ireland Health Service Executive (HSE) is continuing to operate under electronic health record (EHR) downtime procedures and experiencing continued care disruptions, after suffering a ransomware attack more than six weeks ago.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2021

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Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Lab Walkthrough — The WannaCry Ransomware In our lab walkthrough series, we go through selected lab exercises on our INE Platform. Introduction In May 2017, a worldwide ransomware attack infamously known as WannaCry was set in motion. Ransomware damages would cost the world $5 billion (USD) in 2017. wannacry.zip.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported. Google TAG researchers reported that the same group, tracked as Zinc ,” also targeted security researchers in past campaigns. eXplorer.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag=Endpoint tag=Endpoint Protection'>Endpoint Protection</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Loss Prevention'>Data Loss Prevention</a> <a href='/blog?tag=File tag=File Transfers'>File Transfers</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Advanced

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

. “Based on the simplicity by which this vulnerability can be exploited, we believe it’s only a matter of time before it is adopted into the playbooks of other threat actors, including ransomware groups and their affiliates.” “Microsoft’s public bulletin doesn’t say exactly what type of file (images? .

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> 2020 was a year of unprecedented challenge for anyone working in public sector cybersecurity. Featured: .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With numbers like that and a focus on ransomware, it is easy to see why Russia is owning most of the headlines. One notorious hacking group from Iran uses particularly dirty schemes to fleece users, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Read Google's official TAG blog to learn more about the technical details.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The vulnerability allows attackers to craft documents that won’t get tagged with Microsoft’s “Mark of the Web,” despite being downloaded from untrusted sites. The bug already seeing exploitation is CVE-2022-44698 , which allows attackers to bypass the Windows SmartScreen security feature.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 24, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> Protecting customer data from loss and leakage has become a top priority for enterprises over the past decade.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

Microsoft, like Google TAG, observed a cyber espionage campaign aimed at vulnerability researchers that attributed to North Korea-linked Zinc APT group. ” This week, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) also warned of North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media. eXplorer.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

SecurityAffairs awarded as Best European Personal Cybersecurity Blog 2022 Crooks are using RIG Exploit Kit to push Dridex instead of Raccoon stealer Flagstar Bank discloses a data breach that impacted 1.5 Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Whether it is ransomware, other types of malware, or any number of cyberattacks, threat actors keep inventing new techniques to cause disruption. In a blog post, Neel Mehta, Information Security lead for Google, explains how a hacker has managed to break certificate code parsing to invade email inboxes and infect users with malware.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bad actors are increasingly using a technique called HTML smuggling to deliver ransomware and other malicious code in email campaigns aimed at financial services firms and other organizations, according to Microsoft researchers. See also: How to Prevent Ransomware Attacks. What Is HTML Smuggling? Leveraging HTML5 and JavaScript.

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Webroot

JANUARY 25, 2021

The data was leaked in an October data breach, which Nitro confirmed, and was bundled for auction with a high price tag. Scottish environmental agency falls victim to ransomware attack. The post Cyber News Rundown: Cryptomining Malware Resurgent appeared first on Webroot Blog. Hackers leak nearly 2 million Pixlr records.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 5, 2023

Security researchers at Akamai have published a blog about a new Magecart -alike web skimming campaign that uses compromised legitimate sites as command and control (C2) servers. The code used on the web skimming victims is designed to look like popular third-party services such as Google Tag Manager or Facebook Pixel.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The attack inspired political pressure, and that subsequently led to an increase in response speed from the US government on ransomware activities. In fact, various ransomware groups rolled out a formal policy. The bad actors have understood that this event changed the calculus, in terms of how countries treat ransomware actors.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Limit who can see your posts, tag you in photos, or slide into your DMs without an invitation. Backup your data Picture this nightmare scenario: Your laptop is suddenly hijacked by a malware infection or a ransomware attack encrypting all your files and holding them hostage. But fear not! Stay safe out there!

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Malwarebytes

MAY 11, 2022

What’s left is sites which look a bit like blogs and loop visitors round, with no download in site. They’re tagged as a mixture of phishing, tech support, and fake invoices. In fairness, a few of those listed are already offline or not responding to requests, so they may have been shut down since the report went live.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2022

Some details about this campaign were published in this Korean blog, however they did not perform the threat attribution. In this blog, we will share the technical details of the attack chains, and will explain how we correlated this threat actor to Lazarus. This same email address was recently mentioned in Prevailion's blog.

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Javvad Malik

OCTOBER 29, 2020

But hold on, Dillon is tagging along. If the predator represented a new strain of ransomware developed by China / Russia / Iran / other nation-state, then they would have been forking over a few Bitcoins by the end of the movie. You make a plan, go in, save the data, get out. The kind of stuff the SAS excel at.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Phishing, ransomware, site defacement and SEO spam are just some of the most common threats SMBs face online. Then you can set up a business email address, develop high-level messaging for your business like a tag line, and design a logo or hire someone to do it for you. Additionally, a good business name has an available domain name.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2019

have been held hostage by a ransomware strain known as “ Robbinhood.” On May 25, The New York Times cited unnamed security experts briefed on the attack who blamed the ransomware’s spread on the Eternal Blue exploit, which was linked to the global WannaCry ransomware outbreak in May 2017.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Additionally, dashboards share data about threat names, any relevant reference URLs, tags, adversary and malware families, and attack IDs. Dashboards clearly state the quantity and types of indicators of compromise (IoCs) and also provide Pulses to quickly summarize threats and their impact.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag=Cybersecurity'>Cybersecurity</a> tag=Cybersecurity'>Cybersecurity</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Ransomware'>Ransomware</a> tag=Ransomware'>Ransomware</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Cyber-attacks'>Cyber-attacks</a> Featured: .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Attackers could use this neat technique to infect and to mess-up your disk and eventually asking for a ransom before restoring original disk-configurations ( Petya was just one of the most infamous boot-ransomware). The original post is available on Marco Ramilli’s blog. The first two lines: 1] .code16 code16 2] .global

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Elie

AUGUST 31, 2017

Over the last two years, ransomware has been all over the news. Hardly a week goes by without a report of a large ransomware outbreak or the emergence of a new ransomware family. Despite all this attention, very little is known about how profitable ransomware is and who the criminals are that benefit from it. final post.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

This blog post was authored by Hasherezade. The threat actor used this entry point to get into a Domain Controller and then leveraged it as a springboard to deploy ransomware. While examining the ransomware payload, we noticed it was a new variant which we had not heard of before. New ransomware, looking for partners.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

This blog post was authored by Hasherezade. The threat actor used this entry point to get into a Domain Controller and then leveraged it as a springboard to deploy ransomware. While examining the ransomware payload, we noticed it was a new variant which we had not heard of before. New ransomware, looking for partners.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In such a case the redirection script pushes to one of the following domains by introducing the HTML meta “refresh” tag, pointing the browser URL to a random choice between 4 different entries belonging to the following two domains: http[://com-kl96.net net http[://com-mk84.net. Possible Link with TA-505. kvas/ http[://66.133.129.5/~nsmarc1166/

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The very next day I published a blog post about how I made it so fast to search through 154M records and thus began a now 185-post epic where I began detailing the minutiae of how I built this thing, the decisions I made about how to run it and commentary on all sorts of different breaches. And then ensured could never happen again.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 413 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Attackers could use this neat technique to infect and to mess-up your disk and eventually asking for a ransom before restoring original disk-configurations ( Petya was just one of the most infamous boot-ransomware). The original post is available on Marco Ramilli’s blog. The first two lines: 1].code16 The last two lines: 112].fill

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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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Fox IT

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The next part of this blog is divided into two parts: firstly, we look back at previous Blister payloads and configurations, and in the second part, we discuss the recent developments. Furthermore, to have a list of Blister and payload hashes in clear text in the blog, we included these in Table 6. 50 1580103824 bimelectrical[.]com

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NopSec

APRIL 7, 2019

In our l ast week’s blog post , we outlined the first part of that webinar, without going into the three specific applications and the challenges. For example, we could tag all messages that contain the expression ‘make money’ as spam. This would likely catch some spam messages, but it would not get us very far.

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