Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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.” The service is used by criminal gangs called affiliates who actually carry out attacks.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2024

The FBI is inviting victims of LockBit ransomware to come forward because it has obtained over 7,000 LockBit decryption keys that could allow them to recover their encrypted data for free. The NCA reached out to victims based in the UK providing support to help them recover encrypted data.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 Restoration is offered in exchange for a ransom, usually in cryptocurrencies. Capital markets, insurance, financial services, and banking are now online.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2023

billion personal records compromised by data breaches in past two years — underscoring need for end‑to‑end encryption Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

At the entry-level, potential offenders without any specific expertise can carry out cyberattacks by relying on tools and services made available to them through crime-as-a-service. Cryptocurrencies remain an important means of payment for criminal services and products. Money makes the crimes go round.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 27, 2022

BlueNoroff group is a financially motivated threat actor eager to profit from its cyberattack capabilities. We have published technical details of how this notorious group steals cryptocurrency before. The virtual disk file contains a decoy PDF file, Windows executable file, and an encrypted Dump.bin file. Infrastructure.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Healthcare and public health, financial services, and IT organizations are frequent targets, although businesses of all sizes can fall victim to these schemes. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 3,729 ransomware complaints in 2021, representing $49.2 million in adjusted losses.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In wider action coordinated by Europol, two LockBit actors have been arrested this morning in Poland and Ukraine, over 200 cryptocurrency accounts linked to the group have been frozen.” The NCA will reach out to victims based in the UK in the coming days and weeks, providing support to help them recover encrypted data.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2022

“Frappo” grants cybercriminals the ability to work with stolen data anonymously and in an encrypted format. Frappo” was initially designed to be an anonymous cryptocurrency wallet based on a fork of Metamask and is completely anonymous, it doesn’t require a threat actor to register an account.

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Supples spoke to SC Media in an interview alongside EBCS Director David Maimon, who said his research team would study the modus operandi of cybercriminals operating on the dark net and other encrypted channels, as well as the different types of fraud exist across various platforms – and how they evolve. “[We

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This includes the evolution from physical currency and checks to digital payment methods such as credit and debit cards, as well as the emergence of newer technologies like mobile payments and cryptocurrencies. Overall, CBDCs as a new type of digital currency are not volatile like cryptocurrencies.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In wider action coordinated by Europol, two LockBit actors have been arrested this morning in Poland and Ukraine, over 200 cryptocurrency accounts linked to the group have been frozen.” The NCA will reach out to victims based in the UK in the coming days and weeks, providing support to help them recover encrypted data.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Cryptocurrency exchange. DigiCert , a leading provider of PKI, and Thales, a leader in data protection, have a decade-long partnership helping their clients authenticate and encrypt communications, systems, emails, documents, websites, and servers. Smart contracts.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Attackers are becoming more organized, with ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operations providing easy access to malicious tools for even novice cybercriminals. Current cybersecurity trends show that attackers are now targeting critical infrastructure, healthcare, and financial services, leading to massive disruptions.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2024

Widely-used PuTTY Utility Allows Recovery of Encryption Secret Keys Type of vulnerability: Deterministic cryptographic number generation. that didn’t generate sufficiently random numbers for encryption keys, which could allow an attacker to fully recover keys and impersonate users after obtaining roughly 60 signatures.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Victims pay ransomware adversaries for decryption keys through cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin. In addition to encrypting data and holding it hostage, ransomware attackers also upload valuable data to other systems on the internet. Ransomware adversaries hold the data hostage until a victim pays the ransom.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A pivotal moment came when the FBI obtained over 7,000 decryption keys, allowing victims to unlock their encrypted data for free. Despite these setbacks, LockBit attempted to maintain its operations, quickly adapting by changing encryption methods and shifting its leak site strategy.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The days where victims could simply pay ransom for an encryption key, unscramble their data, and move on are ending. Their new trick is to extract precious company data before encrypting it, so the attacks pack a one-two punch—they threaten embarrassing data breaches on top of crippling data destruction. Would a U.S.

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SecureList

AUGUST 5, 2021

or cryptocurrency secured by these resources. The most widespread representative of Agent family fell short of the TOP 10, but the ranking did find room for a Trojan from the Crypt family (2.06%), which includes heavily obfuscated and encrypted programs. In Q2 2021, cybercriminals diversified their easy-money schemes. Conclusion.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Similarly, in financial services and banking, businesses have been able to create new payment, customer interaction and trading services built upon technologies such as biometric verification , cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Blockchain can be particularly useful when securing IoT devices.

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