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Octo Tempest cybercriminal group is "a growing concern"—Microsoft

Malwarebytes

In a security blog about Octo Tempest Microsoft states: “Octo Tempest monetized their intrusions in 2022 by selling SIM swaps to other criminals and performing account takeovers of high-net-worth individuals to steal their cryptocurrency.” Stop threats early before they can even infiltrate or infect your endpoints.

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City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5 million to mitigate the May Royal ransomware attack

Security Affairs

To prevent the threat from spreading within the network, the City shut down the impacted IT systems. At the time, BleepingComputer reported that the City’s court system canceled all jury trials and jury duty for several days starting from May 2nd. ” reads the report. ” continues the report.

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Ransomware in 2023 recap: 5 key takeaways

Malwarebytes

In this report, “known attacks” are those where the victim did not pay a ransom. Through thec onsistenciess and evolutions over the last year, one fact remains clear: 2023 broke records with its total number of 4475 ransomware attacks, a 70% increase from 2022. 2023 was an explosive year for ransomware. We also saw notable rebrands (i.e

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IT threat evolution Q3 2023

SecureList

Targeted attacks Unknown threat actor targets power generator with DroxiDat and Cobalt Strike Earlier this year, we reported on a new variant of SystemBC called DroxiDat that was deployed against a critical infrastructure target in South Africa. This proxy-capable backdoor was deployed alongside Cobalt Strike beacons.

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SeroXen RAT for sale

CyberSecurity Insiders

Executive summary SeroXen is a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that showed up in late 2022 and is becoming more popular in 2023. It has been historically associated with malicious activity performed by threat actors, APT groups (like in this Mandiant report from 2017), or government attacks (in this report by Unit42 in 2017).

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Ransomware attack news headlines trending on Google

CyberSecurity Insiders

Denso, a Japan-based automotive component manufacturer, has released a press statement that it is looking into an incident where hackers might have accessed sensitive info from its company servers. Third is the news related to NVIDIA company that was attacked by Lapsus$ ransomware group on February 23rd, 2022.

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Anatomy of a Quantum Attack

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Thu, 04/28/2022 - 06:15. Advanced computers, quantum being one, have the potential to wreak havoc on the data, systems, devices, and networks we rely on daily. A conventional computer would need 300 trillion years to break RSA encryption – considered the gold standard for Public Key Encryption (PKE). government.