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As of February 2025, Medusa developers and affiliates have impacted over 300 victims from a variety of critical infrastructure sectors with affected industries including medical, education, legal, insurance, technology, and manufacturing.” Victims can additionally pay $10,000 USD in cryptocurrency to add a day to the countdown timer.
Manufacturing: IP theft and ransomware are top risks; OT/ICS systems still lag in basic controls. Ransoms are usually paid via cryptocurrency, and those values have been back on the rise since Q4 2023rising aggressively in the past couple of quarters. Healthcare: Insider threats and error-related breaches dominate.
Specifically, they can modify cryptocurrency wallet addresses during transfer attempts, replace links in browsers, send arbitrary text messages and intercept replies, and steal login credentials for messaging and social media apps. If errors occur, it uses durl2 and durl3 as backup links. Neither payload is encrypted. services class.
If you had shown the foresight of making secure backups in advance, you could get back up and running again. But if you had no backups, your only chance of getting your data back was if you were prepared to pay a ransom to the gang hell bent on extorting a sometimes hefty cryptocurrency from you.
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.” Create offsite, offline backups. Don’t get attacked twice.
One report showed ransomware attacks increased by 80 percent in 2022, with manufacturing being one of the most targeted industries. Teach them to keep a full backup of all data. It’s best to stay away from paying out any funds in cryptocurrency or otherwise. A plan of action is vital in the case of any hack.
and Bulgaria seizing $454,530 in ransom payments laundered through cryptocurrencies, disrupting or seizing many of the group’s servers, shutting down their dark web communication channel with victims and arresting and charging a Canadian national they authorities claim acted as an affiliate.
Their combined 48 leaked victims last month were across a range of industries, mainly centered around manufacturing, logistics, and services. The agencies have reason to believe cryptocurrency ransom payments from such operations support DPRK's "national-level priorities and objectives." Create offsite, offline backups.
Since March, the attackers have been trying to conduct multistage attacks on large corporate networks of medical labs, banks, manufacturers, and software developers in Russia. When the work of company’s regional branches had been paralyzed, they demanded about $50,000 in cryptocurrency.
8 ) Deadbolt first targeted storage devices manufactured by Taiwan-based company QNAP, for which patches have been available since early this year. ( 8 ) Deadbolt first targeted storage devices manufactured by Taiwan-based company QNAP, for which patches have been available since early this year. (
According to the 2021 IBM Threat Force Intelligence Index , Manufacturing was the industry most likely to be attacked last year, comprising 23.2% One particularly potent emergent technology for scammers is blockchain and the related cryptocurrency and NFTs. of cyber attacks IBM handled.
Finally, negotiations with the victims may be handled by yet another team and when the ransom is paid out, a whole new set of skills is needed to launder the cryptocurrency obtained. They interact with each other through internet handles, paying for services with cryptocurrency. Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency is used for payment.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning to all users who are active on Play-to-Earn games application about a possibility that their devices could be tricked into stealing millions of cryptocurrencies. The company issued an apology and assured that hackers accessed or stole no customer data.
Ransom payments are generally demanded in the form of untraceable cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin. As is often the case, the cost of restoring files from backups can amount to more than paying the ransom. This includes the Billtrust and German manufacturer, Pilz, ransomware infections. Backups aren’t working.
The US, manufacturing sector, and professional, scientific, and technical services (PSTS) sector are primary targets amidst an overall increase in ransomware attacks. Little Change in Victimology As we saw in the previous reporting period, ransomware groups continue to heavily target the manufacturing and PSTS sectors.
Dawn Cappelli, vice president of global security and chief information security officer at Rockwell Automation, said that the spike in ransomware attacks, particularly in manufacturing, inspired a tabletop exercise in December with her CEO and all his direct reports to walk through various ransomware scenarios.
Victims pay ransomware adversaries for decryption keys through cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin. Hunt and destroy or encrypt backups hosted in local and cloud networks as well as virtual machine snapshots. Protect your backup systems. Does backup protect against ransomware? Test your ability to restore from backups.
The attackers use the reverse shell to deploy a Bash stealer that collects data such as system information, browsing history, saved passwords, cryptocurrency wallet files and credentials for cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Azure). Otherwise, the reverse shell is created by the crond backdoor itself.
The US, manufacturing sector, and professional, scientific, and technical services (PSTS) sector are primary targets amidst an overall increase in ransomware attacks. Little Change in Victimology As we saw in the previous reporting period, ransomware groups continue to heavily target the manufacturing and PSTS sectors.
Akira’s victims spanned a wide range of sectors, with a particular focus on manufacturing, professional services, healthcare, and critical infrastructure. infrastructure sectors, including healthcare, government services, financial services, and critical manufacturing. PATCH OR DIE!
And the crane manufacturer has assured that most of the digital disruption related repercussions faced by its branches worldwide will be solved by this weekend. However, the company’s IT staff is confident that they could recover all the systems through backups without the need to pay a single penny to hackers.
Most device or software manufacturers place backdoors in their products intentionally and for a good reason. CISA reported that LokiBot “employs Trojan malware to steal sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, and other credentials.” Backdoors. ” Malicious Mobile Apps.
We know that you know, manufacturing is an area that we've seen a lot of targets over the last quarter. Again, because if you bring down manufacturing operations, there's a high impact to the business and necessity to recover quickly. of cryptocurrency. VAMOSI: Should you pay?
We will also see better backup practices that will help minimize or neutralize the threat of these attacks. . Unfortunately, many are not secure because they are protected by nothing more than manufacturer default passwords readily available online. Cryptocurrency miners will continue to get rich off of stolen electricity.
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