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Medusa ransomware hit over 300 critical infrastructure organizations until February 2025

Security Affairs

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.

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Verizon's 2025 DBIR: Threats Are Faster, Smarter, and More Personal

SecureWorld News

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.

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Triada strikes back

SecureList

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.

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Babuk ransomware gang says it’s no longer interested in encrypting data, would rather kidnap it instead

Hot for Security

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.

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Octo Tempest cybercriminal group is "a growing concern"—Microsoft

Malwarebytes

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.

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GUEST ESSAY: Too many SMBs continue to pay ransomware crooks — exacerbating the problem

The Last Watchdog

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.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 426 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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