CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2022

Intel has entered the crypto mining market by launching a low power consuming silicon wafer that is aimed at those who make money through Crypto Mining. Note – A ransomware is a kind of malware that offers a privilege to a cyber crook to encrypt a database until a ransom is paid in crypto currency.

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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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Bleeping Computer

MAY 26, 2022

The Industrial Spy data extortion marketplace has now launched its own ransomware operation, where they now also encrypt victim's devices. [.].

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2021

These days, when speaking of cyberthreats, most people have in mind ransomware, specifically cryptomalware. This roundup spotlights the ransomware Trojan families that most actively attacked businesses in the CIS in H1 2021, and their technical characteristics. Ransomware families at a glance. Note left by the ransomware.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Ransomware groups are constantly devising new methods for infecting victims and convincing them to pay up, but a couple of strategies tested recently seem especially devious. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned that Venus ransomware attacks were targeting a number of U.S. Encrypting sensitive data wherever possible.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2022

It’s been a couple of decades since data tapes delivered by trucks made encryption a standard enterprise cybersecurity practice. Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice. What is Encryption?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Payroll software provider Apex Human Capital Management suffered a ransomware attack this week that severed payroll management services for hundreds of the company’s customers for nearly three days. The company declined to specify how much was paid or what strain of ransomware was responsible for the attack. Roswell, Ga.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is no secret that ransomware attacks have been on the rise in recent years and have caused a significant amount of pain to organizations worldwide. To better understand the relationship between insurance and ransomware, U.K.-based RUSI's research challenges the notion that cyber insurance is a direct catalyst for ransomware.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

These cybercriminals are happy to put aside previous Ransomware-as-a-Service hierarchies to focus on the ill-gotten gains to be made from controlling victim’s networks, rather than the previous approach which prioritized control of the ransomware itself. It’s Groove whom the babuk ransomware needs to thank for its fame.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2021

The Darkside ransomware gang is enhancing its extortion tactics to interfere with the valuation of stocks of companies that are listed on NASDAQ or other stock markets. The Darkside ransomware operators are stepping up their extortion tactics targeting companies that are listed on NASDAQ or other stock markets with a new technique.

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Hacker Combat

APRIL 6, 2022

Ransomware attacks targeting governments, businesses, hospitals, and private individuals are rising. You are neither safe on your private nor public network, as ransomware can encrypt your files and hold them hostage. We will look at the features of some of the best ransomware protection that you can run on your systems.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This year has seen ransomware groups adapt and innovate, pushing the boundaries of their malicious capabilities and evasiveness from law enforcement. The ransomware sector, in particular, has witnessed the emergence of “business models,” with ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) dominating the scene.

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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. Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. Last week, the United States joined the U.K.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

One of the most common ways such access is monetized these days is through ransomware , which holds a victim’s data and/or computers hostage unless and until an extortion payment is made. THE DOCTOR IS IN. ” WHO IS DR. . Have a Coke and a Molotov cocktail. Image: twitter.com/multivpn.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Google has announced that it has carried out a study on over 80 million ransomware samples, out of which Israel submitted most. In the year 2020, GandCrab ransomware as a service group was termed to be super-active, targeting most of the private entity networks. And only 4% found targeting android machines followed by Linux.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 17, 2023

Ransomware – Stop’em Before They Wreak Havoc madhav Thu, 05/18/2023 - 06:03 Cybercriminals have been making a run on your data with ransomware attacks over the last decade in increasing frequency. What is Ransomware? Ransomware is a vicious type of malware that infects your laptop/desktop or server.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

A ransomware attack has disrupted operations at INA Group, Croatia’s biggest oil company, and its largest petrol station chain. “Market supply is secure. “Multiple sources have told ZDNet the cyber-attack is a ransomware infection that infected and then encrypted some of the company’s backend servers.”

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 13, 2025

A recent report from Tenable highlights how DeepSeek R1, an open-source AI model, can generate rudimentary malware, including keyloggers and ransomware. Key findings from Tenable's report Tenable's research team investigated DeepSeek R1's ability to generate malicious code, specifically a keylogger and a simple ransomware program.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2021

FBI confirmed that the attack against the Colonial Pipeline over the weekend was launched by the Darkside ransomware gang. Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that the Colonial Pipeline was shut down due to a cyber attack carried out by the Darkside ransomware gang. The pipeline allows carrying 2.5 Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 8, 2021

A ransomware attack targeted on Taiwan-based Laptop Manufacturer Gigabyte is said to have halted the production operation of the company from the past few days. Preliminary investigation has proved that few of the servers related to manufacturing were hit badly by the file encrypting malware.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

As the world marks the second Anti-Ransomware Day, there’s no way to deny it: ransomware has become the buzzword in the security community. Yet, much of the media attention ransomware gets is focused on chronicling which companies fall prey to it. Part I: Three preconceived ideas about ransomware.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

Maze ransomware operators have leaked online the unencrypted files allegedly stolen from Canon during a recent ransomware attack. Now the Maze ransomware operators have published unencrypted files allegedly stolen the Canon during the ransomware attack. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Maze ransomware operators).

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

Related: ‘IABs’ spread ransomware. Planning your roadmap, executing your projects, and keeping an eye on the barrage of ransomware headlines, it’s understandable if you and your team are feeling some anxiety. Data collections released after ransomware attacks. There are many facets to what I’ll call “The Underground.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 25, 2025

Thales Named Overall Leader in KuppingerColes Leadership Compass Data Security Platforms madhav Tue, 03/25/2025 - 07:37 Thales has been named an Overall Leader in the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass in the Data Security Platforms category, earning this top ranking for its products, innovation, and market presence.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 14, 2021

During a ransomware attack, it is critical to detect and respond early and quickly. By decreasing your mean time to detection in identifying the attacker’s behavior, your security team can quickly investigate and respond timely to prevent a ransomware incident. Endpoint ransomware protection.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 23, 2023

BullWall , global leaders in ransomware containment, and researchers with Cybersecurity Insiders, today published the Cybersecurity Insiders 2023 Ransomware Report. We’ve been researching the state of ransomware for years, but a new trend is now starting to emerge. This research was very interesting for us,” said Holger Schulze.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The e-commerce software platform X-Cart suffered a ransomware attack at the end of October, e-stores hosted by the company went down. At the end of October, the e-commerce software platform X-Cart suffered a ransomware attack, the infection brought down customers’ e-stores hosted by the company on its platform.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

VPN Infrastructures Allure for Threat Actors PNs have become a fundamental part of network security for organizations worldwide, enabling secure remote access to systems, encrypting sensitive data during transmission, and protecting internal networks from unauthorized access.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Encrypted flash drives, essentially secure storage on a stick, are a proven technology that has been readily available for at least 15 years. And yet today there is a resurgence in demand for encrypted flash drives. And yet today there is a resurgence in demand for encrypted flash drives.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Tape vendors have been promoting themselves as a solution to the ransomware problem because of their ability to provide air-gapped data backup, but trying to recover terabytes of data from a tape drive can be a little like, well, running into red tape. Since all the system data is encrypted, the hackers have admin/root privileges.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 23, 2021

NASDAQ displays in Times Square deliver stock market information to traders. Brazen ransomware groups are continuing to seek out new avenues to rake in profits and ratchet up pressure on victims. Either way, he is not aware of any other ransomware group using this apparently novel tactic. “In bfishadow on Flickr, CC BY 2.0

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 14, 2022

The post Spotlight: ShardSecure on Protecting Data At Rest Without Encryption appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Marc is the Head of Marketing at ShardSecure. Encryption tools for securing that data are widely available, but they come with costs both in management overhead and in speed of access.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2021

Ransomware attacks on large enterprises like Colonial Pipeline dominate the headlines. But did you know small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) account for at least half of all ransomware attacks, if not closer to two-thirds, according to the U.S. 1 In fact, ransomware is the most common cyberthreat that SMBs face. What it is.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 12, 2023

In fact, WhatsApp would rather cease serving UK users, which make up 2% of its global market, than weaken its end-to-end encryption (E2EE). At the moment, organizations cannot scan end-to-end encrypted messages. The bill does not seek to undermine end-to-end encryption in any way," he said. This means breaking E2EE.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2025

Thales Named Overall Leader in KuppingerColes Leadership Compass Data Security Platforms madhav Tue, 03/25/2025 - 07:37 Thales has been named an Overall Leader in the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass in the Data Security Platforms category, earning this top ranking for its products, innovation, and market presence.

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