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Akira ransomware gang claims the theft of sensitive data from Nissan Australia

Security Affairs

The Akira ransomware group announced it had breached the network of Nissan Australia, the Australian branch of the car maker giant. ” reads the message published by the group on its data leak site. Like other ransomware gangs, the group has developed a Linux encryptor to target VMware ESXi servers.

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GUEST ESSAY: The drivers behind persistent ransomware — and defense tactics to deploy

The Last Watchdog

Healthcare and public health, financial services, and IT organizations are frequent targets, although businesses of all sizes can fall victim to these schemes. In fact, ransomware-as-a-service is alive and well, educating would-be offenders on how to undertake an attack and even offering customer support.

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More details about Operation Cronos that disrupted Lockbit operation

Security Affairs

Lockbit ransomware group administrative staff has confirmed with us their websites have been seized. pic.twitter.com/SvpbeslrCd — vx-underground (@vxunderground) February 19, 2024 The operation led to the arrest of two members of the ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine and the seizure of hundreds of crypto wallets used by the group.

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US GOV OFFERS A REWARD OF UP TO $15M FOR INFO ON LOCKBIT GANG MEMBERS AND AFFILIATES

Security Affairs

. “The Department of State is announcing reward offers totaling up to $15 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of any individual participating in a LockBit ransomware variant attack and for information leading to the identification and/or location of any key leaders of the LockBit ransomware group.”

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Cloudflare: Mirai Botnet Launched Record-Breaking DDoS Attack

eSecurity Planet

Cloudflare last month fought off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a botnet that was bombarding 17.2 million requests per second (rps) at one of the internet infrastructure company’s customers in the financial services space. This group is likely large, well-funded and dedicated.”.

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Exclusive: Researchers dumped Gigabytes of data from Agent Tesla C2Cs

Security Affairs

Agent Tesla , first discovered in late 2014, is an extremely popular “malware-as-a-service” Remote Access Trojan (RAT) tool used by threat actors to steal information such as credentials, keystrokes, clipboard data and other information from its operators’ targets.

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HTML Smuggling Techniques on the Rise: Microsoft

eSecurity Planet

Bad actors are increasingly using a technique called HTML smuggling to deliver ransomware and other malicious code in email campaigns aimed at financial services firms and other organizations, according to Microsoft researchers. They also often sell unauthorized access to the said operators.