eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Following a July 18 attack by the Rhysida ransomware group — believed to have Russian affiliations — Columbus is still reeling from the exposure of vast amounts of sensitive resident data. This data reportedly includes everything from names and addresses to Social Security numbers and bank account details. With over 6.5

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Deloitte has responded to claims by the Brain Cipher ransomware group, which alleges the theft of over 1 terabyte of the company’s data. Recently, the ransomware group Brain Cipher added Deloitte UK to its Tor leak site. The Brain Cipher ransomware group has been active since at least April 2024.On

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Where a traditional threat intelligence or investigations tool may provide a small number of records directly correlated to the search input, IDLink expands the pool of results to include identity data correlated across shared usernames, emails, passwords, and PII – with flexible options around pivoting depth, confidence levels, and visualization.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2025

The ransomware group Codefinger is using compromised AWS keys to encrypt S3 bucket data using SSE-C, Halcyon researchers warn. The ransomware group Codefinger has been spotted using compromised AWS keys to encrypt data in S3 buckets. Halcyon researchers pointed out that this ransomware campaign does not exploit any AWS vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2025

. “In this scenario, criminals use free online document converter tools to load malware onto victims computers, leading to incidents such as ransomware.” They can also steal personal data, banking details, cryptocurrency info, emails, and passwords by scraping the files the users upload. The FBI urges reporting to IC3.gov.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 10, 2025

The RansomHub ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated an enormous 1.5 Here, the ransomware group lays blame on the company itself. This isn’t rare for a ransomware group, as the tactics and vernacular are often based around shame, guilt, and a pre-teen-like arrogance. Change your password. Take your time.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 27, 2025

In May, UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty estimated that the ransomware attack compromised the data of a third of US individuals when he testified before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group claimed the initial attack. Change your password. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA).

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The July 2024 ransomware attack that hit the City of Columbus, Ohio, exposed the personal and financial data of 500,000 individuals. On July 29, 2024, the City published an update on the City’s website and confirmed that the City of Columbus suffered a ransomware attack. The gang claimed they had stolen databases containing 6.5

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2022

Passwords have become ubiquitous with digital. The humble password is nothing more than a digital key that opens a door. And they use passwords to open a device, a system, an account, a file and so on. Which begs the question: why do people create their own passwords? Related: The coming of passwordless access.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The investigation revealed that attackers had compromised an account associated with a third-party provider of support services. Then GrubHub locked out the attackers and removed the hacked account. Upon discovery, we promptly launched an investigation, identifying unauthorized access to an account associated with this provider.”

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A ransomware attack against the City of Columbus, Ohio—which drew public scrutiny following the city government’s attempt to silence a researcher who told the public about the attack—has received a little more detail from an unexpected source: The Attorney General for the state of Maine. Change your password.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2025

The FBI warned specifically about that malware leading to ransomware attacks, but we’ve also seen similar sites that install browser hijackers, adware, and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs). Other passwords and session tokens that could allow the scammers to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Email addresses.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2025

Operators behind the SuperBlack ransomware exploited two vulnerabilities in Fortinet firewalls for recent attacks. Between January and March, researchers at Forescout Research Vedere Labs observed a threat actors exploiting two Fortinet vulnerabilities to deploy the SuperBlack ransomware. ” reads the report.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 26, 2021

This strain of malware dates back as far as 2014 and it became a gateway into infected machines for other strains of malware ranging from banking trojans to credential stealers to ransomware. Change your email account password. Turn on 2 factor authentication wherever available. Keep operating systems and software patched.

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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. The Contileaks account did not respond to requests for comment.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Zyxel warns that a ransomware group has been observed exploiting a recently patched command injection issue in its firewalls. Zyxel warns that a ransomware gang has been observed exploiting a recently patched command injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-42057, in its firewalls for initial compromise.

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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. More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network. com (2017).

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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. law enforcement agencies.

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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 biggest is password re-use by cybercriminals (yes, crooks are lazy, too).

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Digital Shadows

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Key Findings First observed in March 2024, BlackLock (aka El Dorado or Eldorado) has rapidly emerged as a major player in the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) ecosystem. By Q4 2024, it ranked as the 7th most prolific ransomware group on data-leak sites, fueled by a staggering 1,425% increase in activity from Q3.

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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. Reached by phone today, Jansson said he quit the company in August, right around the time Gunnebo disclosed the thwarted ransomware attack.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

Use unique, strong passwords, and store them in a password manager. Many people get hacked from having guessable or previously compromised passwords. Good passwords are long, random, and unique to each account, which means it’s impossible for a human to manage them on their own. Setting up Google 2FA.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

USDoD claimed they grabbed the data by using passwords stolen from a Turkish airline employee who had third-party access to Airbus’ systems. By stealing these tokens, attackers can often reuse them in their own web browser, and bypass any authentication normally required for that account. Microsoft Corp. government inboxes.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In February, he and Ermakov were arrested on charges of operating a short-lived ransomware affiliate program in 2021 called Sugar (a.k.a. Shefel claims his Sugar ransomware affiliate program was a bust, and never generated any profits. Sugar Locker), which targeted single computers and end-users instead of corporations.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The attack on Change Healthcare, which processes about 50% of US medical claims, was one of the worst ransomware attacks against American healthcare and caused widespread disruption in payments to doctors and health facilities. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

and Australia in sanctioning and charging a Russian man named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the leader of the infamous LockBit ransomware group. used the password 225948. ” In an October 2013 discussion on the cybercrime forum Exploit , NeroWolfe weighed in on the karmic ramifications of ransomware. and admin@stairwell.ru

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 19, 2025

Holistic Identity: The New Cyber Battleground Organizations have traditionally focused on securing individual account credentials, but SpyClouds research indicates that cybercriminals have expanded their tactics beyond conventional account takeover. ” Additional Report Findings: 17.3 ” Additional Report Findings: 17.3

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

This bypasses security barriers entirely, giving adversaries a direct path to infiltrate networks, steal data, and deploy ransomware undetected. For businesses, this means their compromised access can be resold multiple times, leaving them vulnerable to repeated attacks from different threat actors if passwords arent changed promptly.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A 26-year-old Ukrainian man is awaiting extradition from The Netherlands to the United States on charges that he acted as a core developer for Raccoon , a popular “malware-as-a-service” offering that helped paying customers steal passwords and financial data from millions of cybercrime victims. stolen with the help of Raccoon.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The administrator password is "admin". Research has revealed that IT administrators are just as likely to do the tech equivalent of putting the key under the mat as end users, with both groups using similarly predictable passwords. For that reason, using default passwords is considered a serious security risk.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 30, 2025

This gives the hacker the information to access your trading capital or, even worse, lock you out of your account. Data Breaches Data breaches are fairly common among cybercriminals who break into a platforms database and steal sensitive information like personal details, passwords and financial data. Monitor your accounts regularly.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Identity security vendors have focused narrowly on securing corporate accounts, leaving organizations vulnerable to cybercriminals exploiting the broader identity exposures of employees, consumers, and suppliers. A shift to an identity-centric perspective is needed, particularly as the scope of identity exposures continues to grow.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The latest, major threats to Mac computers can steal passwords and credit card details with delicate precision, targeting victims across the internet based on their device, location, and operating system. Some info stealers dont even require an additional stepthey can take cryptocurrency directly from a victims online accounts.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 17, 2022

Phishing emails are the most common vector for attacks on corporate networks, especially in ransomware and business email compromise (BEC) campaigns; anything that involves large groups of employees to continuously send updated file attachments or links to a reply-all list or an individual, creates cybersecurity issues.

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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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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Not long ago I wrote about a recent campaign to hold LinkedIn users' accounts to ransom. His story begins with an SMS text from LinkedIn telling him to reset his password. He found this confusing: It arrived in the middle of the night, and he hadn't asked for a password reset. Rest assured, we're doing our best to assist you!

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