Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 16, 2020

As we look ahead to 2021, what trends can we expect to emerge and continue when it comes to cyber? What should C-suite executives account for in their cybersecurity roadmaps and risk registers? Sophisticated Ransomware . Ransomware, the fastest-growing type of cybercrime, will claim a new victim? every 5 seconds ?by

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

The FBI warns organizations in the higher education sector of credentials sold on cybercrime forums that can allow threat actors to access their networks. Crooks obtain the information by conducting spear-phishing and ransomware attacks, or other means. ” reads the alert published by the FBI.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

I’m preparing the slides for my next speech and I decided to create this post while searching for interesting cybercrime statistics in 2020. Cybercrime will cost as much as $6 trillion annually by 2021. The global expense for organizations to protect their systems from cybercrime attacks will continue to grow.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The FBI published a flash alert to warn of the activity of the Ranzy Locker ransomware that had already compromised tens of US companies. The FBI published a flash alert to warn of Ranzy Locker ransomware operations that had already compromised at least 30 US companies this year. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ranzy Locker ransomware).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Organizations have paid more than $600 million in cryptocurrency during 2021, nearly one-third to the Conti ransomware gang. and Australia have published a joint advisory warning of an increased globalised threat of ransomware worldwide in 2021. Last week, cybersecurity agencies from the U.K., added the company. .

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In January, KrebsOnSecurity examined clues left behind by “ Wazawaka ,” the hacker handle chosen by a major ransomware criminal in the Russian-speaking cybercrime scene. ” The @fuck_maze account messaged me a few times on Twitter, but largely stayed silent until Jan.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 28, 2022

While it should come as no surprise that cybercrime broke pretty much every record in 2021, the actual numbers behind the crimes are quite revealing. Cybercrime in the last five years. The first section of the report provides an overview of what cybercrime has looked like in the last five years. Ransomware in 2021.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2022

Which are the cyber attacks of 2021 that had the major impact on organizations worldwide in terms of financial losses and disruption of the operations? The systems at the company were infected with the Phoenix Locker, a variant of ransomware tracked as Hades that was part of the arsenal of the cybercrime group known as Evil Corp.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. Jump to: What is ransomware? How ransomware works. Preventing ransomware. Ransomware attacks and costs.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Accenture researchers detailed the activity of a new sophisticated cybercrime group, called Karakurt, behind recent cyberattacks. The activity of the group was first spotted in June 2021, but the group has been more active in Q3 2021. In June 2021 the gang registered the domains hosting its leak sites, karakurt[.]group

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Earlier this week, KrebsOnSecurity revealed that the darknet website for the Snatch ransomware group was leaking data about its users and the crime gang’s internal operations. It continues: “Prior to deploying the ransomware, Snatch threat actors were observed spending up to three months on a victim’s system.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2024

The Cactus ransomware group claims to have hacked Coop, one of the largest retail and grocery providers in Sweden. The Cactus ransomware group claims to have hacked Coop and is threatening to disclose a huge amount of personal information, over 21 thousand directories. The Cactus ransomware relies on multiple legitimate tools (e.g.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. Image: Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2024

An operation conducted by the Federal Criminal Police Office in Germany (BKA) and the Frankfurt cybercrime combating unit (ZIT) led to the seizure of the infrastructure of the darknet marketplace Nemesis Market in Germany and Lithuania. The Nemesis Market recently reached over 150,000 users and over 1,100 seller accounts registered worldwide.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The Dutch government will not tolerate ransomware attacks that could threaten national security, it will use intelligence or military services to curb them. “For several years, the threat of ransomware attacks has been increasing around the world.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), has confirmed that it was unprotected by antivirus software when it was attacked by the Medusa ransomware group in September. EDR can detect an intruder's suspicious activity in advance of them running ransomware, as well as being able to identify the ransomware itself.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2023

. “Cashout bank logs” typically refer to a type of cybercrime where individuals gain unauthorized access to banking information, often through phishing attacks or hacking, and then use that information to withdraw money or make unauthorized transactions. For example, both ransomware and info stealers target Bitcoin.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, March 2021. FatFace CEO Liz Evans released a statement which said “ On 17th January 2021 FatFace identified some suspicious activity within its IT systems. More and More Ransomware Attacks.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A Russian ransomware group known as Grief claims it is gunning for the National Rifle Association (NRA). Grief ransomware gang posts to Dark Web about NRA hack. The NRA posted this statement to their official Twitter account: "NRA does not discuss matters relating to its physical or electronic security. October 27, 2021.

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Veracode Security

MAY 14, 2021

Verizon recently published its 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). Despite the global pandemic, the DBIR uncovered that cybercrime continued to thrive. Phishing, ransomware, and web app attacks … Oh my! Ransomware attacks increased by 6 percent, accounting for 10 percent of breaches.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Department of Justice today announced the arrest of Ukrainian man accused of deploying ransomware on behalf of the REvil ransomware gang, a Russian-speaking cybercriminal collective that has extorted hundreds of millions from victim organizations. The DOJ also said it had seized $6.1 Vasinskyi was arrested Oct. 3 was Lublin, Poland.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

FBI and CISA published a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to disseminate IOCs, TTPs, and detection methods associated with AvosLocker ransomware. The joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) is part of an ongoing #StopRansomware effort aimed at sharing technical details associated with various ransomware operations.

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Anton on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

The famous Mandiant 2023 M-Trends (NOT G-Trends, mind you…) report is out, and here are some of the things that I found to be surprising and NOT surprising :-) Mandiant M-Trends 2023 Detection by Source SURPRISING “Mandiant experts note a decrease in the percentage of global intrusions involving ransomware between 2021 and 2022.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

DoJ charged a Russian national with conspiring to carry out LockBit ransomware attacks against U.S. The Justice Department announced charges against the Russian national Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov (20) for his role in numerous LockBit ransomware attacks against systems in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Africa.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2023

Several domain names tied to Genesis Market , a bustling cybercrime store that sold access to passwords and other data stolen from millions of computers infected with malicious software, were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today. ” a cybercrime forum ad for Genesis enthused.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The year 2021 was eventful in terms of digital threats for organizations and individuals, and financial institutions were no exception. share in 2020 to the second most common in 2021 with 12.2%. The mass change in cybercriminals’ objectives and methods seen in 2020 continued in 2021. Phishing: In 2021, 8.2%

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. was used to register an account with the username “Nordex” at bankir[.]com

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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. com (2017).

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The same day the ICRC went public with its breach, someone using the nickname “ Sheriff ” on the English-language cybercrime forum RaidForums advertised the sale of data from the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. 9, 2021, using an unpatched critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-40539). ” Update, 2:00 p.m.,

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2022

The BlackCat ransomware gang is targeting unpatched Exchange servers to compromise target networks, Microsoft warns. Microsoft researchers have observed BlackCat ransomware gang targeting unpatched Exchange servers to compromise organizations worldwide. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

CISA, FBI and NSA published a joint advisory warning of ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure organizations. and Australia have published a joint advisory warning of an increased globalised threat of ransomware worldwide in 2021. Cybersecurity agencies from the U.K., ” reads the joint advisory.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In August, KrebsOnSecurity warned that scammers were contacting people and asking them to unleash ransomware inside their employer’s network, in exchange for a percentage of any ransom amount paid by the victim company. According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center ( IC3 ), consumers and businesses reported more than $4.2

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

have sanctioned 10 individuals and two entities associated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their participation in malicious cyber activity, including ransomware. The United States government, in partnership with cyber authorities from Australia, Canada, and the U.K., police department. regional transportation company.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2021

Another ransomware gang, the Vice Society ransomware operators, is using Windows print spooler PrintNightmare exploits in its attacks. The Vice Society ransomware operators are actively exploiting Windows print spooler PrintNightmare vulnerability in their attacks against Windows servers. The flaw received a CVSS score of 7.3,

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Today, we are showing readers just what that evolution looked like, in our State of Malware 2021 report. Ransomware gangs reneged on early promises to stay away from hospitals and hit new lows instead, attacking hospitals and medical facilities in organized campaigns. If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that cybercrime stops for nothing.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said that the BlackByte ransomware gang has breached at least three organizations from US critical infrastructure sectors. Secret Service (USSS) to provide information on BlackByte ransomware. Use double authentication when logging into accounts or services.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2021

Ransomware attackers, who use myriad methods to get their malware into the systems of businesses large and small in hopes of pulling down millions of dollars, are now going directly to the source. Evolving Ransomware Scene. million ransomware attacks in the first six months of 2021, compared with 121.5 There were 304.7

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