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. News of the Trickbot compromise was first published here on Oct.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The BlackMatter ransomware gang announced it is going to shut down its operation due to pressure from law enforcement. The BlackMatter ransomware group has announced it is shutting down its operation due to the pressure from local authorities. We wish you all success, we were glad to work.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. By the second week of January, Russia had amassed more than 100,000 troops along its southern border with Ukraine. Some of that work is highlighted in the 2022 Year in Review review below.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Blackberry released a report centered around an entity they call Zebra 2104 and which appears to be an “initial access broker” According to their research, Zebra 2014 has provided ransomware operators with an initial foothold into some of their victims. Despite threats , the EU ultimately decided not to impose sanctions.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

As the world marks the second Anti-Ransomware Day, there’s no way to deny it: ransomware has become the buzzword in the security community. Yet, much of the media attention ransomware gets is focused on chronicling which companies fall prey to it. Part I: Three preconceived ideas about ransomware.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

News roundup. Q4 2021 saw the appearance of several new DDoS botnets. Known botnets made the news more than once in Q4. In late 2021, news broke of a vulnerability in the Apache Log4j library , which laid claim to being the most dangerous vulnerability of the year. beta9 to 2.14.1,

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

13 years later, you researchers connected the dots to reveal how these events formed part of a new style of coordinated interference in which misinformation and manipulation were used by Russia to stoke division. Vamosi: His neighbor to the east, Russia, has come up before. I mean, it's not news when something doesn't happen.

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