Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2022

In December 2021, researchers discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service named ALPHV (a.k.a. “ BlackCat “), considered to be the first professional cybercrime group to create and use a ransomware strain written in the Rust programming language. Image: Varonis. Image: Varonis. The upshot? ” Meanwhile, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2024

A ransomware attack on Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) was the root cause of the agency’s service disruptions. On December 23, 2024, Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) announced it was actively responding to a ransomware attack that was first detected on Thursday, December 19.

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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. 22, 2020, the U.S. On Sunday, Feb.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland’s public health system. The unusually candid post-mortem found that nearly two months elapsed between the initial intrusion and the launching of the ransomware.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 18, 2024

Nearly 10 million devices were infected with data-stealing malware in 2023, with criminals stealing an average of 50.9 credentials per device.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Romanian national was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in NetWalker ransomware attacks, pleading guilty to fraud charges in June. Romanian national Daniel Christian Hulea, 30, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in NetWalker ransomware attacks. ” reads the press release published by DoJ. in restitution.”

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

CISA warns that the Akira Ransomware gang is exploiting the Cisco ASA/FTD vulnerability CVE-2020-3259 (CVSS score: 7.5) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Cisco ASA and FTD bug, tracked as CVE-2020-3259 (CVSS score: 7.5), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. in attacks in the wild.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

What’s the best way for a company to test its malware defenses in real-life scenarios? In fact, a 2017 report predicted that by 2020 businesses will be hit by a threat actor every eleven seconds. The post Safely Test Your Malware, Ransomware and Virus Defenses appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The Incident response analyst report provides insights into incident investigation services conducted by Kaspersky in 2020. We deliver a range of services to help organizations when they are in need: incident response, digital forensics and malware analysis. Geography of incident responses by region, 2020.

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

2020 was challenging for everyone: companies, regulators, individuals. As a result, 2020 was extremely eventful in terms of digital threats, in particular those faced by financial institutions. In 2020, the group tried its hand at the big extortion game with the VHD ransomware family. Methodology. Methodology.

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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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

This post is a deep dive on “ Megatraffer ,” a veteran Russian hacker who has practically cornered the underground market for malware focused code-signing certificates since 2015. More recently, it appears Megatraffer has been working with ransomware groups to help improve the stealth of their malware.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“The threat actor did not deploy malware or tamper with any customer files within the environment,” the notice reads. In March 2020, Finastra suffered a ransomware attack that sidelined a number of the company’s core businesses for days.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2022

Earlier this week, a Ukrainian security researcher leaked almost two years’ worth of internal chat logs from Conti , one of the more rapacious and ruthless ransomware gangs in operation today. – Testers: Workers in charge of testing Conti malware against security tools and obfuscating it.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A threat actor has leaked the source code for the first version of the HelloKitty ransomware on a Russian-speaking cybercrime forum. kapuchin0 claims that the leaked code is the first breach of the HelloKitty ransomware. kapuchin0 claims that the leaked code is the first breach of the HelloKitty ransomware.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Companies hit by ransomware often face a dual threat: Even if they avoid paying the ransom and can restore things from scratch, about half the time the attackers also threaten to release sensitive stolen data unless the victim pays for a promise to have the data deleted. ” Image: Coveware Q3 2020 report.

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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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2021

Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman who’s alleged to have worked as a programmer for Trickbot , a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for infecting millions of computers and seeding many of those systems with ransomware.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

It might be someone who specializes in embedding droppers – a type of malware delivery tool designed to stealthily install the endgame payload, Shier says. Or the payload might be a data exfiltration routine — or a full-blown ransomware attack. Speaking of ransomware, cyber extortion continues to persist at a plague level.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The infamous Maze ransomware gang has announced they will cease operations, effective immediately. . On November 1, the hacking group behind several high profile ransomware attacks in 2020 issued a rambling press release, riddled with spelling errors, on the dark web announcing, “it is officially closed.”.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. In some cases, this allows the intruders to profit even if their malware somehow fails to do its job.

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SecureList

AUGUST 9, 2022

On July 7, 2022, the CISA published an alert, entitled, “ North Korean State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Use Maui Ransomware To Target the Healthcare and Public Health Sector ,” related to a Stairwell report, “ Maui Ransomware.” 2021-04-15 DTrack malware. 2021-04-15 Maui ransomware. DTrack malware.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2021

Taiwanese vendor QNAP is warning its customers of AgeLocker ransomware attacks on their NAS devices. Crooks behind the AgeLocker ransomware operation are targeting QNAP NAS devices, the Taiwanese vendor warns. The malware was designed to abuse NAS resources and mine cryptocurrency. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

One of the most common ways such access is monetized these days is through ransomware , which holds a victim’s data and/or computers hostage unless and until an extortion payment is made. Each day, millions of malware-laced emails are blasted out containing booby-trapped attachments. ” WHO IS DR.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2020

This week, security researchers said they spotted that same vulnerability being exploited by a new variant of Mirai , a malware strain that targets vulnerable Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale attacks and as proxies for other cybercrime activity. A joint advisory on CVE-2020-9054 from the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2021

CISA has published an analysis of the FiveHands ransomware, the same malware that was analyzed a few days ago by researchers from FireEye’s Mandiant experts. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published an analysis of the FiveHands ransomware that was recently detailed by FireEye’s Mandiant.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

and Germany moved to decapitate “ Hydra ,” a billion-dollar Russian darknet drug bazaar that also helped to launder the profits of multiple Russian ransomware groups. billion euros in 2020 alone. Separately, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. energy facilities. and international companies and entities, including U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

Security experts reported that a second ransomware gang, named Black Kingdom , is targeting Microsoft Exchange servers. The first ransomware gang exploiting the above issues in attacks in the wild was a group tracked as DearCry. BlackKingdom ransomware on my personal servers. It does indeed encrypt files. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. As LockBit 2.0

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

From January through March 2021, TLS concealed 45 percent of the malware Sophos analysts observed circulating on the Internet; that’s double the rate – 23 percent – seen in early 2020, Dan Schiappa, Sophos’ chief product officer, told me in a briefing. And then they may use off-the-shelf malware to carry out their attack.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Figures of the year In 2022, Kaspersky mobile products and technology detected: 1,661,743 malicious installers 196,476 new mobile banking Trojans 10,543 new mobile ransomware Trojans Trends of the year Mobile attacks leveled off after decreasing in the second half of 2021 and remained around the same level throughout 2022. percentage points.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2021

Microsoft warns of a malware campaign that is spreading a RAT dubbed named STRRAT masquerading as ransomware. Microsoft Security Intelligence researchers uncovered a malware campaign that is spreading a remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as STRRAT. The latest version of the Java-based STRRAT malware (1.5)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The FBI has revealed that the Cuba ransomware gang breached the networks of at least 49 US critical infrastructure organizations. A flash alert published by the FBI has reported that the Cuba ransomware gang breached the networks of at least 49 US critical infrastructure organizations. ” states the alert.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cybersecurity vaccines are emerging as a new tool to defend against threats like ransomware and zero-day vulnerabilities. Cybersecurity firms have released “vaccines” in recent days to protect against the widely used STOP ransomware strain and the new Apache Log4Shell vulnerability. They also come with the same limitations.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 12, 2021

Many of us who read the news daily encounter a regular drum beat of ransomware stories that are both worrying and heartbreaking. SunCrypt was found using IP addresses and Command and Control infrastructure tied to Twisted Spider to deliver the ransomware payload in its campaigns. The ties that bind. Shared infrastructure.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 3, 2022

Ransomware is more pervasive than ever, and the number of attacks is mindboggling. With help from ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), cybercriminals and organized “bad actors” continue to wreak havoc. The post 6 Ways to Minimize Ransomware Damage appeared first on Security Boulevard. Despite efforts by enterprises to secure.

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