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How ransomware gangs are connected, sharing resources and tactics

Malwarebytes

Many of us who read the news daily encounter a regular drum beat of ransomware stories that are both worrying and heartbreaking. SunCrypt was found using IP addresses and Command and Control infrastructure tied to Twisted Spider to deliver the ransomware payload in its campaigns. Shared infrastructure. Who is in the cartel?

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Analysts “strongly believe” the Russian state colludes with ransomware gangs

Malwarebytes

Since then, they have been behind campaigns involving the harvesting of banking credentials in over 40 countries using sophisticated Trojan malware known as Dridex. It was also in 2017 that EvilCorp started creating and using ransomware—BitPaymer, WastedLocker , and Hades—for their financially-motivated campaigns. SilverFish.

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The evolution of ransomware in 2019: attackers think bigger, go deeper and grow more advanced

Security Affairs

The number of ransomware attacks increased by 40 percent last year, according to Group-IB attackers think bigger and grow more advanced. The greediest ransomware families with highest pay-off were Ryuk , DoppelPaymer and REvil. . The greediest ransomware families with highest pay-off were Ryuk , DoppelPaymer and REvil. .

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Information Stealing Malware on the Rise, Uptycs Study Shows

SecureWorld News

A new study from Uptycs has uncovered an increase in the distribution of information stealing malware. According to the new Uptycs whitepaper, Detecting the Silent Threat: 'Stealers are Organization Killers' (gated link), a variety of new info stealers have emerged this year, preying on Windows, Linux, and macOS systems.

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How Groove Gang is Shaking up the Ransomware-as-a-Service Market to Empower Affiliates

McAfee

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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Q&A: Crypto jackers redirect illicit mining ops to bigger targets — company servers

The Last Watchdog

One key bit of intelligence Bitdefender shares in a whitepaper is a breakdown of how EternalBlue has come into play, once again. You may recall EternalBlue was one of the cyber weapons stolen from the NSA and used in the milestone WannaCry ransomware attack in the spring of 2017. are being used to deliver crypto miners.

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10 Lessons Learned from the Top Cyber Threats of 2021

Security Boulevard

DarkSide Ransomware Campaign. The DarkSide ransomware group provided Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) to other threat actors. million USD after its operations were brought to a halt by this ransomware campaign in May 2021. Let's look at DarkSide ransomware attacks in the Picus Threat Library. Lessons Learned: 3.