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Ransomware Groups Turn to Intermittent Encryption to Speed Attack Times

eSecurity Planet

To accelerate the ransomware encryption process and make it harder to detect, cybercriminal groups have begun using a new technique: intermittent encryption. Intermittent encryption allows the ransomware encryption malware to encrypt files partially or only encrypt parts of the files.

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Researchers found the first Linux variant of the RTM locker

Security Affairs

RTM ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) started offering locker ransomware that targets Linux, NAS, and ESXi systems. The Uptycs threat research team discovered the first ransomware binary attributed to the RTM ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) provider. ” reads the analysis published by Uptycs.

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How One Company Survived a Ransomware Attack Without Paying the Ransom

eSecurity Planet

The first signs of the ransomware attack at data storage vendor Spectra Logic were reports from a number of IT staffers about little things going wrong at the beginning of the day. Screens then started to display a ransom demand, which said files had been encrypted by the NetWalker ransomware virus. The ransom demand was $3.6

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 419 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Please vote for Security Affairs ( [link] ) as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections where is reported Securityaffairs or my name Pierluigi Paganini Please nominate Security Affairs as your favorite blog. We are in the final !

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Source (New) Finance USA Yes 3,494 Woodruff Sawyer Source (New) Insurance USA Yes 3,087 Blackburn College Source (New) Education USA Yes 3,039 CAIRE Inc.

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RTM Locker, a new RaaS gains notorieties in the threat landscape

Security Affairs

The group provides a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) and provides its malicious code to a network of affiliates by imposing strict rules. ” reads the analysis of the gang. ” reads the analysis of the gang. antivirus products), deleting shadow copies, and finally encrypting the files on the targeted systems.

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

This picture comes from an analysis of specific statistics and by reading between the lines in reports from 1Password, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Flashpoint, Google Threat Analysis Group/Mandiant, NetScout, Pentera, and Sophos. No specific tool exists to defend specifically against nation state attacks, ransomware gangs, or hacktivists.