Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs analyzes Fake ransomware, a destructive malware capable of wiping out system drives.
A fresh exploration of the malware uncovers a new tactic for bypassing security products by abusing a known driver vulnerability
In this intrusion from May 2022, the threat actors used BumbleBee as the initial access vector. BumbleBee has been identified as an initial access vector utilized by several ransomware affiliates. …
New version of Exmatter, and Eamfo malware, used by attackers deploying the Rust-based ransomware.
California's largest public school district and the second-largest in the U.S. is undergoing a ransomware attack. The attack has disrupted the district's email
School is out for more than 3,000 students of a suburban Detroit district undergoing its second day of forensics analysis following an online attack. Students have
The LockBit ransomware operation has suffered a breach, with an allegedly disgruntled developer leaking the builder for the gang's newest encryptor.
While working a recent ransomware incident, BlackBerry identified a group whose name and TTPs mimicked the long-standing, popular ransomware crew Conti. Furthermore, the encryptor payload used in the attack was taken from the original group and modified for use with this new group. Who was this doppelganger?
Mandiant attributes the ransomware attack against the Albanian government network in July of 2022 to an Iranian threat actor.
Partially encrypting victims' files improves ransomware speed and aids evasion. First seen in LockFile, the technique is now being widely adopted.
Whether Conti has rebranded as Monti in a bid to mock the former strain or it is just another new ransomware variant on the block.
Selon les premiers éléments de l’enquête technique conduite par l’Anssi, l’assaillant accédait déjà au système d’information du CHSF de Corbeil-Essonnes, via l’accès VPN, 10 jours avant de déclencher le ransomware.
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Editor’s Note: Last April, a ransomware group threatened to expose police informants and other sensitive information if the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department did not pay a demand.
The brazen attack was the work of a gang known as Babuk, which in early 2021 gained a reputation for posting stolen databases on its website from victims that refused to pay a ransom. Just days after it tried to extort the Metropolitan Police Department, Babuk announced it was closing its ransomware affiliate program, and would focus on data theft and extortion instead.
A ransomware group has hit at least one water company in the United Kingdom, but there is some confusion over whose systems were actually breached.
Increased targeting of developing and middle-income countries by ransomware actors presents a challenge to political resilience, economic development and global cyber security.
Its IT provider says it may take three or four weeks to fully recover from the cyber-attack.
Microsoft has discovered that an access broker it tracks as DEV-0206 uses the Raspberry Robin Windows worm to deploy a malware downloader on networks where it also found evidence of malicious activity matching Evil Corp tactics.
SEKOIA.IO presents its Ransomware threat landscape for the first semester of 2022, with the following key points:
The US Justice Department seized approximately half a million dollars that North Korean government-backed hackers had either extorted from US health care organizations or used to launder ransom payments, deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Tuesday as she touted an aggressive US strategy to claw back money for victims of ransomware attacks.
