Krebs on Security

JUNE 14, 2022

Cybercrime groups that specialize in stealing corporate data and demanding a ransom not to publish it have tried countless approaches to shaming their victims into paying. The latest innovation in ratcheting up the heat comes from the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group, which has traditionally published any stolen victim data on the Dark Web.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2021

and Bulgarian authorities this week seized the darkweb site used by the NetWalker ransomware cybercrime group to publish data stolen from its victims. The victim shaming site maintained by the NetWalker ransomware group, after being seized by authorities this week. ” Image: Chainalysis.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The report follows the Internet Organized Crime Assessment (IOCTA), Europol’s assessment of the cybercrime landscape and how it has changed over the last 24 months. Ransomware is named as the most prominent threat with a broad reach and a significant financial impact on industry.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 15, 2024

Get insights from the FBI's Internet Crime Report and our research, learn cybercrime trends' impact, and how to protect your organization.

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 19, 2023

7 Internet Safety Tips for Safer Internet Browsing IdentityIQ With the internet, we can access vast amounts of information with only a click or tap. This year, the total number of internet users worldwide reached 5.18 And as immense as the internet is, so are the risks. Many threats lurk in its corners.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

I’m preparing the slides for my next speech and I decided to create this post while searching for interesting cybercrime statistics in 2020. Cybercrime will cost as much as $6 trillion annually by 2021. The global expense for organizations to protect their systems from cybercrime attacks will continue to grow.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2023

Cado researchers recently detected an interesting attack pattern linked to an emerging cybercrime group tracked as Diicot (formerly, “Mexals”) and described in analyses published by Akamai and Bitdefender. This campaign specifically targets SSH servers exposed to the internet with password authentication enabled.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

At its core, this tactic revolves around gaming the trust users put in reputable internet services, including search engines, and the familiarity they have with online advertising per se. This ends up executing sketchy code that installs viruses, ransomware, spyware, or adware behind the victim's back.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2020

Diebold Nixdorf , a major provider of automatic teller machines (ATMs) and payment technology to banks and retailers, recently suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted some operations. Suspecting a ransomware attack, Diebold said it immediately began disconnecting systems on that network to contain the spread of the malware.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 28, 2022

While it should come as no surprise that cybercrime broke pretty much every record in 2021, the actual numbers behind the crimes are quite revealing. Cybercrime in the last five years. The first section of the report provides an overview of what cybercrime has looked like in the last five years. Ransomware in 2021.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

The FBI warns organizations in the higher education sector of credentials sold on cybercrime forums that can allow threat actors to access their networks. Crooks obtain the information by conducting spear-phishing and ransomware attacks, or other means. ” reads the alert published by the FBI. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2022

Researchers from Cyber looked for VNC exposed over the internet and discovered over 8000 VNC instances with authentication disabled, most of them in China, Sweden, and the United States. Exposing VNCs to the internet, increases the likelihood of a cyberattack. connected via VNC and exposed over the internet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2023

In only a few months, ChatGPT became the fastest-growing consumer app in internet history, reaching 100 million users as 2023 began. Today, hackers use AI to power their ransomware attacks, making them more precise, adaptable, and destructive. This is where the danger lies. It’s almost down to a coin flip in terms of odds.

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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. Over the last years, DoppelPaymer claimed responsibility for a high-profile ransomware attack on Kia Motors America. Prevent intrusions.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In 2023, the CL0P ransomware gang broke the scalability barrier and shook the security world with a series of short, automated campaigns, hitting hundreds of unsuspecting targets simultaneously with attacks based on zero-day exploits. Big game ransomware attacks are devastating but relatively rare compared to other forms of cyberattack.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

A Ukrainian security researcher this week leaked several years of internal chat logs and other sensitive data tied to Conti , an aggressive and ruthless Russian cybercrime group that focuses on deploying its ransomware to companies with more than $100 million in annual revenue. “There will be panic. 428 hospitals.”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 2, 2020

The criminal group behind the REvil ransomware enterprise has begun auctioning off sensitive data stolen from companies hit by its malicious software. A partial screenshot from the REvil ransomware group’s Dark Web blog. and Europe in early March.” So it’s a double vig.”

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

26, KrebsOnSecurity began following up on a tip from a reliable source that an aggressive Russian cybercriminal gang known for deploying ransomware was preparing to disrupt information technology systems at hundreds of hospitals, clinics and medical care facilities across the United States. On Monday, Oct. hospitals and healthcare providers.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report, the 2020 Internet Crime Report , which includes data from 791,790 complaints of suspected cybercrimes. ” reads 2020 Internet Crime Report. According to the report, losses caused by ransomware attacks increased by 225% from $8.9

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2023

These attacks, both attributed to cybercriminals in Russia, almost certainly weren’t motivated by money, since the attackers didn’t deploy ransomware or demand pay. The post Three cybercrime technology trends to watch in 2023 appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 9, 2020

that their information technology systems had been infiltrated by hackers who specialize in deploying ransomware. Nevertheless, on Friday, June 5, the intruders sprang their attack, deploying ransomware and demanding nearly $300,000 worth of bitcoin. The average ransomware payment by ransomware strain.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual FBI 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends observed in the last 12 months.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Related: The Golden Age of cyber espionage We have also seen ransomware outbreaks at MGM and Caesar’s Casino , causing losses in the millions of dollars and targeted assaults on the healthcare sector, affecting over 11 million patients. This recruitment drive aims to enhance their monitoring capabilities and response to cyberthreats.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2024

An operation conducted by the Federal Criminal Police Office in Germany (BKA) and the Frankfurt cybercrime combating unit (ZIT) led to the seizure of the infrastructure of the darknet marketplace Nemesis Market in Germany and Lithuania. Crimemarket was a prominent platform for trading illegal drugs, narcotics, and cybercrime services.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Authorities in Romania reported that at least 100 hospitals went offline after a ransomware attack hit the Hipocrate platform. Authorities in Romania confirmed that a ransomware attack that targeted the Hipocrate Information System (HIS) has disrupted operations for at least 100 hospitals. The threat actors demand the payment of 3.5

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Earlier this week, KrebsOnSecurity revealed that the darknet website for the Snatch ransomware group was leaking data about its users and the crime gang’s internal operations. It continues: “Prior to deploying the ransomware, Snatch threat actors were observed spending up to three months on a victim’s system.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Ransomlooker monitors ransomware groups’ extortion sites and delivers consolidated feeds of their claims worldwide. Cybernews presented Ransomlooker , a tool to monitor ransomware groups’ extortion sites and delivers consolidated feeds of their claims worldwide.

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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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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 25, 2024

The British National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) says it expects Artificial Intelligence (AI) to heighten the global ransomware threat. In how far new moves on the front of a United Nations Cybercrime Treaty will have a short-term effect on the behavior of state-sponsored groups is very hard to predict. Prevent intrusions.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2021

Since the initial lockdown, we have seen the rise of certain types of cybercrime, including scams and fraud campaigns that either bank on the global COVID-19 pandemic or take advantage of potential victims that adhere to work-from-home measures. It is no surprise to see SOCs being conducted over the internet by crime groups.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

Ransomware groups claimed that they successfully targeted 4191 victims in 2023, Cybernews researchers report. According to the Ransomlooker tool, the number of ransomware attack victims increased by 128.17% compared to the previous year (2022), with 1837 additional incidents. Winter was the least active time (14.6%

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Dutch police and other law enforcement agencies have managed to trick the DeadBolt ransomware operators into releasing 150 decryption keys for free. They managed to repeat the process around 150 times before the ransomware gang pulled the plug on their system that gave out the decryption keys. QNAP and DeadBolt have history.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2024

The Dark Angels (Dunghill) ransomware group claims the hack of the chipmaker Nexperia and the theft of 1 TB of data from the company. The Dark Angels (Dunghill) ransomware group claims responsibility for hacking chipmaker Nexperia and stealing 1 TB of the company’s data. The chipmaker has 14,000 employees as of 2024.

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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. They could be on the other side of the globe, part of a cybercrime regime that will never be discovered, much less brought to justice. Ransomware usually starts with a phishing email. Prevalence. A typical attack.

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The State of Security

MARCH 18, 2021

The newly-published annual cybercrime report from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reveals that it had received a record number of complaints and claims […]… Read More. The post 64 times worse than ransomware? billion worth of losses to businesses last year.

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