Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

The FBI has issued an alert to warn about an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks on education institutions in the US and UK. The FBI has issued Tuesday an alert to warn about an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks against education institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom. locked to the filename of the encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

PaloAlto Networks experts warn of malicious Coronavirus themed phishing campaigns targeting government and medical organizations. The attacks against the Canadian healthcare organizations were discovered between March 24 and March 26, they started with coronavirus -themed phishing campaigns that were carried out in the last months.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The experts exploited the vulnerability to reconstruct encryption keys and developed a decryptor that allows victims of the Rhysida ransomware to recover their encrypted data for free. Rhysida ransomware employed a secure random number generator to generate the encryption key and subsequently encrypt the data.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Yes, so our job is to figure it out and apply appropriate steps of actions in the environment, and also we do deliver education. What would be valuable from their perspective to encrypt and then ask for the ransom. Is it a phishing campaign? Number one trend is simply through phishing. Januszkiewicz: Absolutely.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. User education is one of the most powerful tools for preventing malicious mobile apps. Phishing and Social Engineering. How to Defend Against Phishing. Examples of Phishing Malware Attacks.

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IT Governance

JULY 31, 2019

TX-based Wise Health reports data breach caused by phishing attack (35,899). Hackers publish list of Discord credentials they accessed in phishing scam (2,500). Lancaster University students caught out in phishing attack (unknown). Libraries in Onondaga Co., Henry Co., NY, hit by ransomware attack (unknown).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing. The threat actors are sending out spear-phishing messages to compromise diplomatic targets in Southeast Asia, India, and the U.S. at least since 2013.

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