Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Over the past 10 days, someone has been launching a series of coordinated attacks designed to disrupt Trickbot , an enormous collection of more than two million malware-infected Windows PCs that are constantly being harvested for financial data and are often used as the entry point for deploying ransomware within compromised organizations.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2022

We can now add “a ransomware attack” to this once static list. When a ransomware attack takes out an organization, they often revert to pen and paper to keep things ticking over. When ransomware locks down a chunk of historical data, things apparently become much more convoluted. Led Zeppelin! Jimmy Carter!

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2023

In a recent tweet , the FBI office in Denver warned consumers against using free public charging stations, stating that criminals have managed to hijack public chargers with the objective of infecting devices with malware or other software that can give hackers access to your phone, tablet or computer. Enjoy the free charge!”

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 26, 2023

Four SSD disks are alleged to have gone on an adventure last November, making their way out of a Walldorf, Germany, datacenter with one of them ending up on eBay. Sometimes people wander into accidents, and that’s how you end up with all of those “ USB stick left on the bus ” stories. Encrypt your drives.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This article is based on research by Marcelo Rivero, Malwarebytes' ransomware specialist, who monitors information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web sites. This provides the best overall picture of ransomware activity, but the true number of attacks is far higher.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Ransomware is undoubtedly one of the most unnerving phenomena in the cyber threat landscape. Related: What local government can do to repel ransomware Ransomware came into existence in 1989 as a primitive program dubbed the AIDS Trojan that was spreading via 5.25-inch inch diskettes. inch diskettes. FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2022

CNA Financial (March 2021) – CNA Financial, one of the largest insurance companies in the US, reportedly paid a $40 ransom to restore access to its files following a ransomware attack that took place in March. Bloomberg was informed about the payment by two people familiar with the attack. The pipeline allows carrying 2.5

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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. But where did it start? It reached about 20,000 people and medical institutions.

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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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SC Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

This is particularly true for the scourge of ransomware, where rising payments and business incentives to pay may pose an existential threat insurance providers in Great Britain – and beyond. Growing losses from ransomware attacks have…emphasized that the current reality is not sustainable for insurers either. Nurse and James Sullivan.

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Webroot

APRIL 21, 2021

Although cybercriminal activity throughout 2020 was as innovative as ever, some of the most noteworthy threat activity we saw came from the old familiar players, namely ransomware, business email compromise (BEC) and phishing. Ransomware. One of the newer trends we saw in ransomware was that of data extortion.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Security experts say the passwords and other data stolen by Raccoon malware were often resold to groups engaged in deploying ransomware. Authorities soon tracked Sokolvsky’s phone through Germany and eventually to The Netherlands, with his female companion helpfully documenting every step of the trip on her Instagram account.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2022

Microsoft spotted a destructive attack that targeted government, non-profit, and IT entities in Ukraine with a wiper disguised as ransomware. The attackers were discovered by Microsoft on January 13, the experts attributed the attack to an emerging threat cluster tracked as “ DEV-0586.” ” reported Reuters.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Last week, researchers from Rapid7 warned of the exploitation of unpatched zero-day remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-41352 , in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite. Threat actors are exploiting the issue to upload jsp files into Web Client /public directory by simply sending in an email with a malicious attachment.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2021

In the past 24 hours alone, CPR has observed that the number exploitation attempts on organizations it tracks doubled every two to three hours.”. Security experts pointed out that the flaws are actively exploited to deliver web shells, and more recently ransomware such as the DearCry ransomware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 12, 2022

Getting smacked with a crippling ransomware variant is never a walk in the park. The ransomware has blocked users from accessing the platform and the HR data inside and has continued to persist for many into the new year. By Yair Kuznitsov, CEO and co-founder, anecdotes. also leverage the platform.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 17, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed charges against 55-year-old Moises Luis Zagala Gonzalez (Zagala), also known as "Nosphoros," for his use and sale of ransomware and profit sharing arrangements with other cybercriminals. Creation of Jigsaw and Thanos ransomware. Doctors are generally trusted as people who want to help others.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2023

For the past 1 year or so, a museum is unable to access its artecraft database because of a ransomware attack on the servers of Gloucester City Council. CISA has introduced a new program that helps companies managing critical infrastructure identify vulnerable systems that threat actors spreading ransomware can exploit.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Towards this end it has begun sharing videos, whitepapers and reports designed to rally decision makers from all quarters to a common cause. Might it be possible to direct cool digital services at holistically improving the wellbeing of each citizen of planet Earth? Related: Pursuing a biological digital twin. That’s a sizable fish to fry.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

We are surprised and gratified to see this sensitive topic in the public sphere so quickly. Country-level guidelines are frequently absent or insufficient, and as a result, companies must ethically defend themselves, initiate vulnerability management programs, and decide whether to pay in ransomware attacks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2021

While the experts were warning that threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a second vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-45046 , disclosed in the Log4j library a third security vulnerability made the headlines. tracked as CVE-2021-45105. Let’s analyze the timeline for the log4J vulnerabilities. as quickly as possible.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The French national cyber-security agency warns of a surge in Emotet attacks targeting the private sector and public administration entities. The French national cyber-security agency published an alert to warn of a significant increase of Emotet attacks targeting the private sector and public administration entities in France.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

A new ransomware tracked as Lilocked (or Lilu) by researchers is actively targeting servers and encrypting the data stored on them. The Lilocked ransomware has already infected thousands of Linux-based web servers since mid-July. Happy to see if the ransomware was actually stored on the drive rather than just in memory.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 16, 2023

Whether this means that customers of the popular file transfer utility MOVEit Transfer can ask for their money back remains to be seen, but we do hope it signals the end of the game. Let’s do a small recap first, because it’s easy to lose track here. We will use these CVE numbers where available.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Ransomware has brutally impacted critical infrastructure worldwide and now Canada is currently experiencing cyberattacks that are doing the same. Real estate developer, Ronmor Holdings, confirms it was a victim of REvil, the notorious ransomware gang. SecureWorld News breaks down what we know about these alleged ransomware attacks.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

Ransomware gangs are evolving their operations at a rapid pace and making off with increasingly large pay days, according to a new report from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. High-end ransoms have gone up significantly too. Between 2015 and 2019, the largest-known individual ransom demand was for $15 million.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Brute Ratel is a post-exploitation C2 in the end and however does not provide exploit generation features like metasploit or vulnerability scanning features like Nessus, Acunetix or BurpSuite.”. I am tracking it over the past few weeks. Unlike Cobalt strike beacons, BRc4 payloads are less popular, but with similar capabilities.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 22, 2023

CyCognito has released its semi-annual State of External Exposure Management Report , revealing a staggering number of vulnerable public cloud, mobile, and web applications exposing sensitive data, including unsecured APIs and personally identifiable information (PII). Half of these potentially vulnerable web apps are hosted in the cloud.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2021

The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, the botnet is operated by a threat actor tracked as TA542. The infamous banking trojan is also used to deliver other malicious code, such as Trickbot and QBot trojan or ransomware such as Conti (TrickBot) or ProLock (QBot).

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SecureWorld News

JULY 14, 2022

Since we began holistically tracking cybersecurity trends 15 years ago with our annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), we've seen many shifting motivations and strategies behind the bad actors seeking to cause immense harm. When we first started tracking actor motives, financial gain was the top reason followed by hacktivism.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

Australian shipping giant Toll informed its customers that it has shut down some IT systems due to a new ransomware attack. The Australian transportation and logistics giant Toll Group informed its customers that it has shut down some IT systems after a new ransomware attack, it is the second infection disclosed by the company this year.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2021

Because of this, the NCA has assessed that by disrupting the technology, including the capabilities that enable them, they can end criminal schemes in an efficient manner. Organized crime: Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS). The growing threat of ransomware continues to loom over organizations across industries worldwide.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence builds a monthly picture of ransomware activity by monitoring the information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web leak sites. LockBit started off the new year just as it ended the last one, topping the charts once again as January’s most prolific ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS).

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The dark web consists of websites and services that operate anonymously and aren’t accessible in the “public” part of the internet. Dark website URLs end in.onion, and they can’t be accessed with any other type of web browser. What Is the Dark Web? Dark web users need a special browser, called Tor, to access it.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 2, 2022

Ransomware attack rates will continue upward due to the malware’s ease of use combined with increased anonymity afforded by some cryptocurrencies. Introduction. The number of threat actors participating in DeFi activity has grown substantially over the past two years. Individual Threat Actors.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Kaspersky revealed that APT10, also known as the Cicada hacking group, has successfully deployed the LODEINFO malware in government, media, public sector, and diplomatic organizations in Japan. Kaspersky researchers have been tracking the malware since then, and they’ve discovered evidence revealing “high-confidence attribution to APT10.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A new threat actor tracked as TA2101 is conducting malware campaigns using email to impersonate government agencies in the United States, Germany, and Italy. The phishing campaigns delivering malicious attachments were observed since the end of October. ” reads the analysis published by ProofPoint.

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