The FBI has said that FIN7, an infamous cybercrime group, has sent malicious USB devices to US companies over the past few months in the hopes of infecting their systems with malware and carrying...
According to MalwareHunterteam, who first spotted the new ransomware strain, the Night Sky operation started on December 27th and has since published the data of two victims. click here to read full Article Read...
According to a Positive Technologies report, the number of attacks in Q3 2021 decreased by 4.8% as compared to Q2 2021. This was mainly caused by some major ransomware players leaving the market. click...
Ransomware operators are back in business with the advent of 2022. Hardly one week of the year had passed, when researchers raised an alarm about a newly discovered Lapsus$ ransomware. click here to read...
Researchers also noted a trend toward the rebranding of existing ransomware: Some operators are rethinking their preference for the RaaS model, which carries certain risks from unreliable partners. click here to read full Article...
In May 2017, the first documented ransomware assault on networked medical equipment happened. The worldwide ransomware assault WannaCry compromised radiological and other instruments in several hospitals during its height, after a software failure caused...
The Lapsus$ ransomware gang is extorting Impresa, the largest media conglomerate in Portugal and the owner of SIC and Expresso, the country’s largest TV channel and weekly newspaper, respectively. click here to read full...
As 2021 draws to a close, no one in their right mind thinks that cybersecurity risk is just someone else’s problem anymore; major cybersecurity incidents like the SolarWinds breach and the Colonial Pipeline ransomware...
Ransomware is merely the ‘steal or destroy’ stage of an attack where an attacker runs a program that encrypts the victim’s data. Everything up to that point is the same regular attack. click here...
QNAP NAS users fell victim to the eCh0raix ransomware after the actors behind it intensified their attacks right before Christmas. Some users admitted to not securing the device properly, whereas others blamed a vulnerability...
The AvosLocker ransomware operation provided a free decryptor after realizing that they encrypted the systems of a US government agency. A US police department was breached by AvosLocker last month in which devices were...
A member of the AvosLocker operation told BleepingComputer today that they have no policy on who they target but usually avoid encrypting government entities and hospitals. click here to read full Article Read more...
Venafi announced the findings of a global survey of IT security decision-makers, revealing that 60% of professionals believe ransomware threats should be prioritized at the same level as terrorism. click here to read full...
10 of the biggest ransomware attacks in the second half of 2021 click here to read full Article Read More on latest Security Updates
The attack has been attributed to a threat actor tracked under the codename of DEV-0270, a group linked to several intrusions against US firms in 2021 that have ended in the deployment of ransomware....
Researchers underlined a surge in attacks from PYSA ransomware. The relatively new ransomware was behind 50% of attacks that occurred in November. Another actor mentioned in the report is Russian-speaking ransomware group Everest that...
