Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2023

The human-operated Royal ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in September 2022, it has demanded ransoms up to millions of dollars. The Royal ransomware is written in C++, it infected Windows systems and deletes all Volume Shadow Copies to prevent data recovery. ” reads the alert. ” continues the alert.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

The City is investigating the scope of the incident with the help of law enforcement, at this time has yet to disclose details on the incident, including the ransomware family that hit its systems and if there is a data breach. Royal operators have demanded ransom ranging from approximately $1 million to $11 million USD worth of Bitcoin.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Yesterday, a joint law enforcement action, code-named Operation Cronos , conducted by law enforcement agencies from 11 countries disrupted the LockBit ransomware operation. “LockBit had a bespoke data exfiltration tool, known as Stealbit, which was used by affiliates to steal victim data.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Yesterday, a joint law enforcement action, code-named Operation Cronos , conducted by law enforcement agencies from 11 countries disrupted the LockBit ransomware operation. LockBit had a bespoke data exfiltration tool, known as Stealbit, which was used by affiliates to steal victim data. reads the NCA’s announcement. “The

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Other major flaws appeared in the NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes, Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server, and Apache ActiveMQ — and the latter two have already been targeted in ransomware attacks. CVE-2022-4886 (Path Sanitization Bypass): This 8.8-level severity flaw could allow unauthenticated attackers to delete data.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

*Reprinted with permission from the May 6, 2022 edition of the New York Law Journal © 202X ALM Global Properties, LLC. In March 2022, the White House issued a dramatic warning based on “evolving intelligence” about potential Russian cyberattacks on the United States in response to U.S.-imposed All rights reserved. Agency (Feb.

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