Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

North Korea-linked threat actors posed as Samsung recruiters in a spear-phishing campaign aimed at employees at South Korean security firms. 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.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2021

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that North Korea-linked hackers are targeting security researchers via social media. Experts identified two accounts impersonating recruiters for antivirus and security companies. ” reads the post published by Google TAG.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

Starting May 24, the group calling themselves “Cyber Spetsnaz” announced the launch of a new campaign “Panopticon” which aimed to recruit 3,000 volunteer cyber offensive specialists willing to participate in attacks against the European Union and the Ukrainian government institutions including Ukrainian companies. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

In a recent post from 10 Jul 2022, 15:35 pm in Dark Web , “ALPHV” introduced search not only by text signatures, but also supporting tags for search of passwords and compromised PII. Therefore, while ALPHV may not be a rebrand, it is likely that the group recruited many members from these now inactive ransomware gangs.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2021

. “We are apolitical, we do not participate in geopolitics, do not need to tie us with a defined government and look for other our motives [sic],” reads an update to the DarkSide Leaks blog. Portions of a DarkSide recruitment message, translated from Russian. Image: Intel 471. When the victim counter-offered to pay just $2.25

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Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

This blog post was authored by Hasherezade. In this blog we will take a look at AvosLocker a solid, yet not too fancy new ransomware family that has already claimed several victims. Yet, it is easy to reveal the used function names with the help of tracing and tagging. The ransomware encrypts all attached drives.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

This blog post was authored by Hasherezade. In this blog we will take a look at AvosLocker a solid, yet not too fancy new ransomware family that has already claimed several victims. Yet, it is easy to reveal the used function names with the help of tracing and tagging. The ransomware encrypts all attached drives.

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