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

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. There are multiple examples of ransomware groups doing just that after security researchers crowed about finding vulnerabilities in their ransomware code.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2023

A Russian man identified by KrebsOnSecurity in January 2022 as a prolific and vocal member of several top ransomware groups was the subject of two indictments unsealed by the Justice Department today. And on April 26, 2021, Matveev and his Babuk gang allegedly deployed ransomware against the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Change Healthcare says it has notified approximately 100 million Americans that their personal, financial and healthcare records may have been stolen in a February 2024 ransomware attack that caused the largest ever known data breach of protected health information. Image: Tamer Tuncay, Shutterstock.com.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Good article on the evolution of ransomware : Though some researchers say that the scale and severity of ransomware attacks crossed a bright line in 2020, others describe this year as simply the next step in a gradual and, unfortunately, predictable devolution. Ransomware is a decades-old idea.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Russian authorities arrested ransomware affiliate Mikhail Matveev, aka Wazawaka, for developing malware and ties to hacking groups. In May 2023, the US Justice Department charged Russian national Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev for his alleged role in multiple ransomware attacks. The Treasury Department sanctioned the ransomware actor.

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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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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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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 9, 2020

Phishing is on the rise, ransomware continues to be a threat, and email exploits are more popular than ever. Here are the email security risks, and what you can do about them, in 2020.

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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. ” Meanwhile, the U.S.

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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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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2025

A US chain of dental offices known as Westend Dental LLC denied a 2020 ransomware attack and its associated data breach, instead telling their customers that data was lost due to an accidentally formatted hard drive. In October 2020, Westend Dental was attacked by the Medusa Locker ransomware group.

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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 Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Blue Yonder, a supply chain software provider, suffered a ransomware attack, impacting operations for clients like Starbucks and grocery stores. A ransomware attack on Blue Yonder disrupted operations for several customers, including Starbucks and U.K. Blue Yonder confirmed it was the victim of a ransomware attack.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 15, 2023

FBI, CISA and international organizations released an advisory detailing breadth and depth of LockBit, and how to defend against the most prevalent ransomware of 2022 and (so far) 2023. The post CISA advisory on LockBit: $91 million extorted from 1,700 attacks since 2020 appeared first on TechRepublic.

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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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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Ransomware is the Cyber Pearl Harbor we’ve been waiting for all along. Ransomware is the new PCI. DanielMiessler) September 19, 2020. Some stats: At the time of this writing, Google News returns 7,460,000 results for the term Ransomware. IBM says 1 in 4 of attacks its X-Force Team sees is caused by Ransomware.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Ransomware is a significant threat to businesses worldwide. Related: How Putin has weaponized ransomware In mid-March 2020, representatives from the cybersecurity website BleepingComputer contacted numerous ransomware gangs to ask if they’d continue targeting hospitals during the unprecedented COVID-19 public health threat.

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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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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

MARCH 7, 2022

Three stories here last week pored over several years’ worth of internal chat records stolen from the Conti ransomware group, the most profitable ransomware gang in operation today. penned a two-part analysis on why smart contracts will make ransomware more profitable.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 14, 2021

Any big event is likely to attract bad actors. Keeping the games safe from attack is a huge undertaking for event planners.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It had no documented cyber incident response runbooks or IT recovery plans (apart from documented AD recovery plans) for recovering from a wide-scale ransomware event. Over 30,000 machines were running Windows 7 (out of support since January 2020).

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

Or the payload might be a data exfiltration routine — or a full-blown ransomware attack. IABs contributed to threat actors dwelling longer before detection: the median attacker dwell time was 15 days in 2021, up from 11 days in 2020. Speaking of ransomware, cyber extortion continues to persist at a plague level.

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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. – Penetration Testers/Hackers: Those on the front lines battling against corporate security teams to steal data, and plant 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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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Chinese cybersecurity firm Sichuan Silence has been sanctioned for exploiting a vulnerability in Sophos firewalls used at critical infrastructure organizations in the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Ransomware? Well, the stats are even scarier with over 50% increase in ransomware attacks in 2021, compared to 2020. The media paid close attention to ransomware attacks last year, as they had a significant impact on Colonial Pipeline, the nation’s largest fuel distributor, and JBS, the nation’s largest meat distributor.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In 2019, a ransomware attack hit LifeLabs, a Canadian medical testing company. The ransomware encrypted the lab results of 15 million Canadians, and personally identifiable information (PII) of 8.6 Reportedly , LifeLabs paid the ransomware group, which is why it’s still unknown which group was behind the attack.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In March 2020, Finastra suffered a ransomware attack that sidelined a number of the company’s core businesses for days. The simplest explanation is that something spooked abyss0 enough for them to abandon a number of pending sales opportunities, in addition to a well-manicured cybercrime persona.

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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. He declined to comment on the particulars of the extortion incident.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2020

The company’s public statement and notice to customers does not mention the cause of the outage, but their response so far is straight out of the playbook for dealing with ransomware attacks. ” Once considered by many to be isolated extortion attacks, ransomware infestations have become de facto data breaches for victim companies.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Rarely do cybercriminal gangs that deploy ransomware gain the initial access to the target themselves. In this post we’ll look at the clues left behind by “ Babam ,” the handle chosen by a cybercriminal who has sold such access to ransomware groups on many occasions over the past few years.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 30, 2020

We’re not even halfway through 2020, and already it’s been a record-breaking year for ransomware attacks. Millions of inboxes have been hit with a variant of Avaddon ransomware. The post Think Ransomware Can’t Put You Out of Business? 1-99-employee companies are a target. What can CEOs do?

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Both cryptocurrency and ransomware are nothing new in the digital world; both have been there for a very long time, which was enough for them to find common pieces for starting their relationship. Ransomware can be like a virtual car that works on all types of fuels, and crypto is the one that is currently most recommended.

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