Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Synoptek , a California business that provides cloud hosting and IT management services to more than a thousand customer nationwide, suffered a ransomware attack this week that has disrupted operations for many of its clients, according to sources. A now-deleted Tweet from Synoptek on Dec.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

that reboots locked devices Ymir ransomware, a new stealthy ransomware grow in the wild Amazon discloses employee data breach after May 2023 MOVEit attacks A new fileless variant of Remcos RAT observed in the wild A surge in Pro-Russia cyberattacks after decision to monitor North Korean Troops in Ukraine U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

As cryptocurrencies have grown in popularity, there has also been growing concern about cybercrime involvement in this sector Cryptocurrencies have revolutionized the financial world, offering new investment opportunities and decentralized transactions.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Over 200,000 internal messages from the notorious ransomware group Black Basta have surfaced online exposing deep divisions, ransom negotiations, and internal dysfunction. Cybersecurity experts are now poring over the data, uncovering a rare inside look at how one of the most feared ransomware groups operates and potentially unravels.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 2, 2021

In the early days of ransomware things were fairly simple: malware would infect your company’s infrastructure, encrypting your valuable data with a secret key that was only known to your attackers. If you had shown the foresight of making secure backups in advance, you could get back up and running again.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You Casio: Notice of Partial Service Outage and Information Leak Caused by Ransomware Attack He founded a “startup” to access sanctioned Russian websites: the cyber police of Khmelnytskyi region exposed the hacker Hacked ‘AI Girlfriend’ Data Shows Prompts Describing Child Sexual Abuse Malware Over 300,000!

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2024

Borrowing from the playbook of ransomware purveyors, the darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has begun extorting all of its vendors and buyers, threatening to publish cryptocurrency transaction and chat records of users who refuse to pay a fee ranging from $100 to $20,000. “And yes, this is an extortion!!!!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

For this reason, some hacking groups who were into ransomware attacks have set up a separate sect of threat actors who are being assigned the job of target corporate networks and corrupt files. The post Corrupting files is easy than spreading Ransomware appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

Good news for the victims of the ThiefQuest (EvilQuest) ransomware, they can recover their encrypted files for free. The victims of the ThiefQuest (EvilQuest) ransomware victims can recover their encrypted files without needing to pay the ransom due to the availability of a free decryptor. sysopfb shows how we broke it.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2024

Over the last few years, ransomware attacks have become one of the most prevalent and expensive forms of cybercrime. Initially, these attacks involved malicious software that encrypts a victim’s data, rendering it inaccessible until a ransom is paid to the attackers.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Today's ransomware is the scourge of many organizations. If we define ransomware as malware that encrypts files to extort the owner of the system, then the first malware that could be classified as ransomware is the 1989 AIDS Trojan. Not many victims did this, and the symmetric encryption was relatively easy to crack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 30, 2021

Nitro Ransomware, a new variant of file encrypting malware is shaking up the internet by demanding Discord Nitro Gift Cards from victims instead of cryptocurrency. Note- All these days we have seen hackers stealing data and then encrypting the database to involve in double extortion schemes later.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland.

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SecureList

JUNE 12, 2023

Introduction Stealing cryptocurrencies is nothing new. Attackers such as those behind the Coinvault ransomware were after your Bitcoin wallets , too. Since then, stealing cryptocurrencies has continued to occupy cybercriminals. For example, the Mt. Gox exchange was robbed of many bitcoins back in the beginning of 2010s.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 6, 2021

Gangs spreading LockBit ransomware are reportedly bribing employees of corporate companies to enter their computer network and compromise it with file encrypting malware. ransomware spreading gang seems to go employing craze techniques to keep their money counters ringing. Yes, what you’ve read is right! As LockBit 2.0

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

Microsoft researchers linked the Holy Ghost ransomware (H0lyGh0st) operation to North Korea-linked threat actors. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) researchers linked the activity of the Holy Ghost ransomware (H0lyGh0st) operation to a North Korea-linked group they tracked as DEV-0530. ” concludes Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2022

DoJ seized $500,000 worth of Bitcoin from North Korea-linked threat actors who are behind the Maui ransomware. Department of Justice (DoJ) has seized $500,000 worth of Bitcoin from North Korean threat actors who used the Maui ransomware to target several organizations worldwide. reads the advisory published by US authorties.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

By simply paying the fee, usually in cryptocurrencies, the customer will receive the sensitive material ready to be exploited. In Dark Web environments as well as on specialized forums, sellers are posting synthetic ads inviting potential buyers to contact them privately, often via Telegram, Session, and other encrypted messaging apps.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

Oil Company Saudi Aramco that produces oil and fossil fuel through drilling technologies has confirmed that a ransomware group infiltrated the servers of one of its contractors last month and got hold of over 1TB data that is now on the dark web for sale. Note- Usually, a ransomware gang encrypts data until a ransom is paid.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

and Australia in sanctioning and charging a Russian man named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the leader of the infamous LockBit ransomware group. Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. Last week, the United States joined the U.K.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2020

Coronavirus -themed attacks continue to increase, experts observed new Coronavirus ransomware that acts as a cover for Kpot Infostealer. In this campaign, crooks are exploiting the interest in the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak to deliver a couple of malware, the CoronaVirus Ransomware and the Kpot information-stealing Trojan.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 11, 2021

Accenture that offers professional services was reportedly hit by a ransomware attack launched by LockBit group. Note 1- Eamon Javers, the reporter working from CNBC, was the first to disclose the news to the world on Accenture ransomware attack and confirmed that Accenture cyber resilience finally yielded excellent results.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2020

Experts discovered a new ransomware dubbed EvilQuest designed to target macOS systems, it also installs a keylogger and a reverse shell to take over them. Unlike other MacOSx threats, EvilQuest also installs a keylogger, a reverse shell, and steals cryptocurrency wallets from infected hosts. ” reads the analysis wrote by Wardle.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Shutterfly, a California based company that is into photo sharing business, was reportedly hit by Conti Ransomware early this month. It is unclear whether the Conti Ransomware Group has demanded a ransom or not. The post Shutterfly hit by Conti Ransomware appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Ferrari, the luxury car maker, was recently hit by a ransomware attack that apparently led to data leak that is now being posted online on an installment basis. NOTE 2- FBI and other law enforcement agencies across the world are urging the populace not to pay a ransom, if in case, they are targeted by a file encrypting malware.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Ransomware Still Reigns Supreme Ransomware attacks continue to plague organizations globally, and 2024 will be no different. Attackers are becoming more organized, with ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operations providing easy access to malicious tools for even novice cybercriminals.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

More than 90,000 users experienced ransomware attacks. Nearly 18% of all victims published on ransomware gangs’ data leak sites (DLSs) had been hit by RansomHub. According to the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), this individual also was behind the infamous Reveton ransomware Trojan spread in 2012 — 2014.

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Hacker Combat

APRIL 29, 2021

One of the major instruments that facilitate such fraudulent access and use of sensitive data which is otherwise meant to be private is ransomware. It is therefore critical for one to understand the definition as well as the methodologies of how to get rid of ransomware attacks. Ransomware Infection Techniques. Definition.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The German police in cooperation with the US Secret Service have executed search warrants against suspected members of the DoppelPaymer ransomware group in Germany and Ukraine. Cryptocurrency investigators use specialized strategies to track down criminals. Although cryptocurrency is anonymous, that doesn't mean it's untraceable.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2020

Black Kingdom ransomware operators are targeting organizations using unpatched Pulse Secure VPN software to deploy their malware. Black Kingdom ransomware was first spotted in late February by security researcher GrujaRS. the malicious code encrypts files and appends the.DEMON extension to filenames of the encrypted documents.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Quantum computing advances are making traditional encryption obsolete, and adversaries are stockpiling data for future decryption. FIPS-203 enables legal PQC deployment, prompting CISOs to overhaul encryption strategies. AI-powered cryptocurrency attacks will automate phishing and exploit vulnerabilities.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 10, 2022

Ragnar Locker Ransomware, notorious hacking group that spreads file encrypting malware to large-scale organizations, has hit a security firm this time and stole data to prove it’s worth. The post Ragnar Locker Ransomware strikes a cybersecurity firm appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

The hackers hijacked the channels to spread cryptocurrency scams, while deleting some of the groups old videos in the process. The attack was largely reminiscent of a 2022 YouTube account hack that repurposed a 2018 interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook to fool viewers into following a separate cryptocurrency scam.

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Anton on Security

JULY 7, 2022

for “ransomware” in the cloud] observed was where attackers were seen brute forcing SQL databases, cloning a database table into a new table , encrypting the data, and proceeding to drop the original table. ” [A.C.?—?cloud cloud ransomware isn’t really ‘a ware’, but a RansomOp where humans?—?not not malware?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 15, 2021

All the world leaders who took part at the G7 Summit held in Cornwall, UK have agreed on a unanimous note that ransomware and cyber attacks have emerged as the biggest threats to their nation in recent times. As the gangs spreading the file-encrypting malware managed to steal $81m out of $160 stolen funds in 2020 on a worldwide note.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 28, 2021

McMenamins, a family owned company of crafted breweries in Oregon & Washington, has reportedly suffered a ransomware attack, blocking down several of its digital services like hotel room booking and such. If the victim fails to pay the ransom in cryptocurrency, they then sell the stolen data on the dark web.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 8, 2021

A ransomware attack targeted on Taiwan-based Laptop Manufacturer Gigabyte is said to have halted the production operation of the company from the past few days. Preliminary investigation has proved that few of the servers related to manufacturing were hit badly by the file encrypting malware.

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