Webroot

MAY 9, 2024

Plus, as you start crafting resumes and portfolios for your dream job, your devices become treasure troves of personal information. As you start using credit cards or taking out loans, you become a prime target for cybercriminals looking to exploit your personal information. But it’s not just about identity theft.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 20, 2022

Looking back, 2021 was a breakout year for ransomware around the globe, with ransoms spiking to unprecedented multi-million dollar amounts. Related: Colonial Pipeline attack ups ransomware ante. EDR systems are supposed to protect IT system endpoints against these very malware, ransomware, and other types of malicious code.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 11, 2022

From financial institutions to meat producers, it seems every industry has been impacted by ransomware in the past year — maybe even the past week. Related: Tech solutions alone can’t stop ransomware. Put simply, ransomware attacks are on the rise because of profits. Why the stark increase? Low cost attacks.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2023

The BlackCat ransomware gang claims to have hacked the Casepoint legal technology platform used US agencies, including SEC and FBI. The cybersecurity researcher Dominic Alvieri first noticed that the BlackCat ransomware gang added the company Casepoint to the list of victims on its Tor Dark Web site. We mailed you the login link.”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Ransomware? Well, the stats are even scarier with over 50% increase in ransomware attacks in 2021, compared to 2020. The media paid close attention to ransomware attacks last year, as they had a significant impact on Colonial Pipeline, the nation’s largest fuel distributor, and JBS, the nation’s largest meat distributor.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As if the scourge of ransomware wasn’t bad enough already: Several prominent purveyors of ransomware have signaled they plan to start publishing data stolen from victims who refuse to pay up. The message displayed at the top of the Maze Ransomware public shaming site. Follow the news!”

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2024

Effective nonprofit cybersecurity starts at the top. Just as it’s common practice to task board members with budget reviews for fraud prevention, organizations can appoint trustees to oversee cybersecurity explicitly. Creating a solid cybersecurity foundation begins with understanding the organization’s risks.

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DoublePulsar

DECEMBER 3, 2023

What it means — CitrixBleed ransomware group woes grow as over 60 credit unions, hospitals, financial services and more breached in US. This Fedcomp platform was not patched for CitrixBleed, as no Netscaler patches had been applied since May 2023: [link] A ransomware group gained entry to Trellance via Ongoing Operations.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2018

It started the moment I walked through the door, I was welcomed by my wife with, “I don’t know what those boys were doing on the computer, but you need to see this. My high schooler fessed up immediately that he installed the crypto mining extensions just to see what would happen (and to make some money). It isn’t working.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Read everything you need to know about Log4Shell in our blog post, “Log4j zero-day ‘Log4Shell’ arrives just in time to ruin your weekend.”. Read everything you need to know about Log4Shell in our blog post, “Log4j zero-day ‘Log4Shell’ arrives just in time to ruin your weekend.”. The attack surface is incredibly broad.

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Anton on Security

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In fact, “automation provides more than just time saving, so it’s worth implementing in more cases than a simple time-expended versus time-saved calculation might suggest.” In this post of the series, we plan to extract the lessons for your SOC centered on another SRE principle?—? evolving automation. Consistency!” ). Think about it?—?it’s

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In January, KrebsOnSecurity examined clues left behind by “ Wazawaka ,” the hacker handle chosen by a major ransomware criminal in the Russian-speaking cybercrime scene. “By the way, it is my voice in the background, I just love myself a lot.” This he smugly presents as evidence that he is indeed Wazawaka.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Some folks claimed the culprit was ransomware. Well, confirmation is now forthcoming as an affiliate of the BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware group is said to be the one responsible for the attack and subsequent outage. No ransomware was deployed prior to the initial take down of their infrastructure by their internal teams.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.) Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.) For the first expert interview on our blog, we welcomed Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter Byron V.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2023

The cybercrime group FIN8 is using a revamped version of the Sardonic backdoor to deliver the BlackCat ransomware. The financially motivated group FIN8 (aka Syssphinx) was spotted using a revamped version of a backdoor tracked as Sardonic to deliver the BlackCat ransomware (aka Noberus ransomware).

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The internet has drawn comparisons to the Wild West, making ransomware the digital incarnation of a hold-up. The technology industry has met the dramatic rise in ransomware and other cyber attacks with an impressive set of tools to help companies mitigate the risks. Ransomware usually starts with a phishing email.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2022

The recently launched Industrial Spy data extortion marketplace has now started its ransomware operation. Some data dumps are available on Industrial Spy for free, they were likely downloaded from the leak sites of ransomware gangs or other hacking forums. We gather data using vunlerability in their IT infrastructure.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

According to a report in The Register: "A ransomware infection at a cloud IT provider has disrupted services for 60 or so credit unions across the U.S., According to a report in The Register: "A ransomware infection at a cloud IT provider has disrupted services for 60 or so credit unions across the U.S., federal agency. federal agency.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

After going for a brief hiatus, REvil aka Sodinokibi Ransomware gang has re-appeared on the dark web. The file encrypting malware group that is suspected to be operating from Russia has reinstated its “Happy Blog” and started posting stolen data details that were siphoned from victims who did not pay the demanded ransom of $11 million.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2024

Nitrogen is used by threat actors to gain initial access to private networks, followed by data theft and the deployment of ransomware such as BlackCat/ALPHV. This blog post aims to share the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) as well as indicators of compromise (IOCs) so defenders can take action. dll (Nitrogen).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 22, 2023

Security experts say this same tourist dynamic is a dead giveaway in virtually all computer intrusions that lead to devastating attacks like data theft and ransomware, and that more organizations should set simple virtual tripwires that sound the alarm when authorized users and devices are spotted exhibiting this behavior.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The Rise of Ransomware. Ransomware attacks dominate news coverage of the cybersecurity industry. And it’s no wonder – with million-dollar payouts, infrastructure attacks and international manhunts, ransomware makes for exciting headlines. The New Standard of Ransomware. Evolving Threats. Fighting Back.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Change Healthcare, a major provider of IT services to hospitals, continues to battle the BlackCat ransomware syndicate. The FBI and CISA have labeled BlackCat one of the most prolific and damaging ransomware groups currently active. BlackCat had established itself as a formidable player in the ransomware landscape. authorities.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

biz , which frequently blogs about security weaknesses in popular malware tools. Almost daily now there is news about flaws in commercial software that lead to computers getting hacked and seeded with malware. More commonly, however, the people writing malware simply make coding mistakes that render their creations vulnerable to compromise.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

When it comes to cyber attacks, most businesses think: “It could never happen to us,” but some plots are just hitting a little too close to home. There are several methods of active defense that companies can utilize to safeguard their networks, and it’s time for CISOs to start picking. Not familiar with Grand Theft Auto?

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SecureList

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In April 2023, we published a blog post about a zero-day exploit we discovered in ransomware attacks that was patched as CVE-2023-28252 after we promptly reported it to Microsoft. The next five parts will cover the actual root causes and exploitation of five vulnerabilities that were used in ransomware attacks throughout the year.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2023

“Bugs of this type are often [used] to deliver malware or ransomware,” Dustin Childs, head of threat awareness at Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, noted in a blog post. ” “…people who scream ‘Just patch it!’ ” Critical Flaws in Exchange and SharePoint. . Other Key Flaws.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

Cybercrime is big business as global losses to ransomware are projected to reach $42 billion within the next two years.The economic sanctions that many nations have put in place to influence Russia will most likely trigger an increase in the illicit business of cybercrime to help offset losses to what was legitimate trade.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2021

Ransomware attackers, who use myriad methods to get their malware into the systems of businesses large and small in hopes of pulling down millions of dollars, are now going directly to the source. Evolving Ransomware Scene. million ransomware attacks in the first six months of 2021, compared with 121.5 There were 304.7

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 10, 2023

As the majority of the global Covid fog finally started lifting in 2022, other events – and their associated risks – started to fill the headspace of C-level execs the world over. Using this information, last year I wrote a blog summing up the nine top of mind issues I believed will most impact CISOs as we headed into 2022.

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SecureList

JULY 20, 2022

If we look back at what we covered last month, we will see that ransomware (surprise, surprise!) In this blog post, we provide several excerpts from last month’s reports on new ransomware strains. Luna: brand-new ransomware written in Rust. definitely stands out. Command line options available in Luna. Black Basta.

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Webroot

AUGUST 6, 2021

As president and CEO of New England based MSP IT Management Solutions, Nuñez is always on the lookout for products that go beyond just a traditional security operations center. It’s not enough to just monitor his clients’ networks and notify him if there’s a security incident. A cyber resilience strategy. “I Saving time.

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Javvad Malik

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Ransomware is the big threat to all organisations. All ransomware gangs need to be hunted down and shut down wherever they may be. You just read the story and are relieved when she escapes because you’re focussing on the wrong thing. Bear with me, I’m not justifying or sympathising with ransomware gangs.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Hold on, didn’t we just deploy CASB for DLP? Hold on, didn’t we just deploy CASB for DLP? How did ransomware propagate across several VLANs protected with micro-segmentation and isolation? Second, the most important thing to remember is don’t repeat what you just did; learn from it. Something failed!

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Related: IABs fuel ransomware surge. Cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies found 88 new IAB sales on dark web marketplaces in the first quarter of 2020, compared to just three in all of 2017. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, companies started implementing digital tools at an unprecedented pace. Ransomware correlation.

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Webroot

APRIL 4, 2022

For medium-sized organizations (21 to 100 licensed PCs) infection rates are just over one-third (34%), infecting nine PCs on average. Skyrocketing ransomware payments will cost more than just your revenue. Exposure to ransomware is just another element you’ve had to consider. That’s nearly half.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 23, 2023

The campaign To start things up, visitors are lured to several fake blogs about topics they might find interesting. The campaign To start things up, visitors are lured to several fake blogs about topics they might find interesting. It is just wasted money for the advertiser.

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