eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2021

Bad actors have been exploiting VMs in recent years as a way of running under the radar, making it more difficult to detect their malware while it encrypts the data they intend to hold for ransom. ” A Growing Trend. “The motivation behind the tactic is stealth. . “The motivation behind the tactic is stealth.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 16, 2021

Authorities in Ukraine this week charged six people alleged to be part of the CLOP ransomware group , a cybercriminal gang said to have extorted more than half a billion dollars from victims. It’s not clear how much this law enforcement operation by Ukrainian authorities will affect the overall operations of the CLOP group.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Vice Society ransomware group has adopted new custom ransomware, with a strong encryption scheme, in recent intrusions. SentinelOne researchers discovered that the Vice Society ransomware gang has started using a custom ransomware that implements a robust encryption scheme, using NTRUEncrypt and ChaCha20-Poly1305 algorithms.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2021

Group-IB published a report titled “Ransomware Uncovered 2020-2021 ”. Group-IB , a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company, has presented its new report “Ransomware Uncovered 2020-2021 ”. analyzes ransomware landscape in 2020 and TTPs of major threat actors.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Researchers from Trend Micro, while monitoring the activity of the China-linked threat actor Earth Lusca , discovered an encrypted file hosted on a server under the control of the group. According to Trend Micro, the implementation of the interactive shell is likely based on the Linux variant of the Derusbi malware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Trend Micro researchers have spotted a new variant of the Agenda ransomware (aka Qilin) that is written in Rust Language. The Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group uses a double-extortion model, with most of the victims in the manufacturing and IT industries. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Ransomware groups are constantly devising new methods for infecting victims and convincing them to pay up, but a couple of strategies tested recently seem especially devious. Holden’s team gained visibility into discussions among members of two different ransom groups: CLOP (a.k.a. “ Cl0p ” a.k.a. Last month, the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Ragnar Locker group posted on its darknet leak site a note outlining the warning, putting even more pressure on target companies (which the group calls “clients”) and increasing attention on the already high-profile debate about organizations paying ransoms. To Pay or Not to Pay? Ransomware on the Rise.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a Private Industry Notification (PIN) to warn of ransomware initial access trends and provide recommendations to reduce the attack surface to ransomware attacks. “Between 2022 and 2023, the FBI noted ransomware attacks compromising casinos through third-party gaming vendors.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Monti group has been active since June 2022, shortly after the Conti ransomware gang shut down its operations. According to Trend Micro, this variant is quite different from the previous Linux-based version. ” reads the report published by Trend Micro. ” reads the report published by Trend Micro.

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AIIM

JUNE 21, 2018

In this article, we will examine certain trends that you should follow in order to secure your data and prevent your privacy from going out of the window. Encryption is Key. In other words, encrypting your file systems can prevent a massive amount of damage that would have occurred if not for the encryption process.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2020

The Earth Empusa threat group is distributing new Android spyware, dubbed ActionSpy, through watering hole attacks to targets Turkic minority group. Unfortunately, Trend Micro researchers were not able to detect any script while accessing the phishing pages employed in the watering hole attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

According to Trend Micro, an announcement for LockBit Linux-ESXi Locker version 1.0 Trend Micro analyzed the Lockbit Linux-ESXi Locker version 1.0 which uses a combination of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) algorithms for data encryption. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2022

Trend Micro researchers warn of a new ransomware family called Agenda, which has been used in attacks on organizations in Asia and Africa. Trend Micro researchers recently discovered a new piece of targeted ransomware, tracked as Agenda, that was written in the Go programming language. ” reads the report published by Trend Micro.

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Data Matters

JUNE 27, 2022

Against this background, here is our selection of the top five trends that stood out over the course of the CMA DaTa Conference. At the EU level, Commissioner Vestager noted that the High-Level Advisory Group of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) could be a “useful forum” for future coordination. Cross-disciplinary cooperation.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 14, 2019

In a post to Facebook last week, founder Mark Zuckerberg outlined a vision of the future that includes end-to-end encryption and an ephemeral lifespan for private messages and photos. Today we already see that private messaging, ephemeral stories, and small groups are by far the fastest growing areas of online communication.”.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

Then Trend Micro researchers initially analyzed a Windows 32-bit sample of the ransomware from Twitter. blacksuit extension to the name of the encrypted files, drops a ransom note into each directory containing the encrypted files, and adds the reference to its TOR chat site in the ransom note along with a unique ID for each of its victims.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

Hackers master Linux internals and the current trend is stealth. Companies should not neglect such post-exploitation tactics, as ransomware groups not only encrypt the victim’s files these days but also use exfiltrated data as a means of extortion. Read next: Exfiltration Can Be Stopped With Data-in-Use Encryption, Company Says.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2019

Recent campaigns show t hreat actors behind the Dridex and Locky malware families , the TA505 group, have updated tactics and expanded its target list. Trend Micro revealed that the TA505 group that is behind the Dridex and Locky malware families continue to make small changes to its operations. XLS or VBA.DOC macros.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) warns of GALLIUM threat group targeting global telecommunication providers worldwide. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) warns of GALLIUM threat group targeting global telecommunication providers worldwide. ” reads the warning published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2023

IceFire was first detected in March 2022 by researchers from the MalwareHunterTeam , but the group claimed victims via its dark web leak site since August 2022. In an attack observed by the experts, the ransomware successfully encrypted a CentOS host running a vulnerable version of IBM Aspera Faspex file server software.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2023

Dustin Childs , head of threat awareness at Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative , said sysadmins need to take additional measures to be fully protected from this vulnerability. “Vulnerabilities like CVE-2023-21674 are typically the work of advanced persistent threat (APT) groups as part of targeted attacks,” Narang said.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 23, 2022

As the world is slowly returning to pre-pandemic conditions, the underlying trends that have always driven information security, such as new technologies, greater compliance mandates and more severe security incidents, continue to be significant change agents. The quantum computing threat. 2021 Report. 2022 Report. 2021 Report. 2022 Report.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2021

Backed by Japanese telecom giant NTT Group , this new facility instantly jumped into the vanguard of basic research already underway that will eventually enable the routine use of quantum computers, which, in turn, will open the door to things like driverless cars and Star Trekkian medical treatments. billion annually for R&D projects.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Even though encryption should be taken seriously by businesses of all sizes, only a small fraction of the corporate sector puts their back on it. Radicati Group reports that the total number of emails that businesses and consumers send and receive every day is expected to grow to a whopping 347 billion by 2023. Final Thoughts.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2022

The malware exfiltrates data before encrypting the targeted devices to provide additional means of extortion. While Lilith does not introduce any innovative approach, according to Cyble, it clearly shows a trend in the current ransomware landscape. lilith” extension to rename encrypted files. The malware uses a custom “.lilith”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The actors behind this new project have an affiliate platform first introduced on the RAMP underground community, which is known for initial access brokers (IABs) and other cybercriminal actors and ransomware groups. The experts expect an active development of the group in 2023 – by victims and by new affiliates who will join the project.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

DTrack is a modular backdoor used by the Lazarus group since 2019 , it was employed in attacks against a wide variety of targets, from financial environments to a nuclear power plan. The second stage payload is a heavily obfuscated shellcode, the APT group used an encryption method different for each sample. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Security researcher Marco Ramilli presents a comparative analysis of attacks techniques adopted by the Iran-Linked OilRig APT group. I would define this group of references as reports. Those reports have been divided into 4 timing groups in order to simplify the evaluation process. and more personal thoughts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

Researchers from security firms Profero and Security Joes linked a series of ransomware attacks to the China-linked APT27 group. Security researchers from security firms Profero and Security Joes investigated a series of ransomware attacks against multiple organizations and linked them to China-linked APT groups.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2020

The operators behind the Nefilim following a scaring trend have started threatening their victims to release stolen data. This tactic was already adopted by other ransomware gangs, including the Maze Group , Nemty gang , DoppelPaymer , and Sodinokibi crews. The encrypted AES key will be included in the contents of each encrypted file.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2023

. “Modern cryptography management and cryptographic agility are becoming increasingly more essential for businesses of all sizes; however, there has been a distinct lack of open-source tools for developers to support these features,” Graham Steel, head of product for the company’s Quantum Security Group, said in a statement.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2022

Gootkit runs on an access-a-as-a-service model, it is used by different groups to drop additional malicious payloads on the compromised systems. The encrypted code in the registry was then reflectively loaded through PowerShell to reconstruct a Cobalt Strike binary that runs directly in the memory filelessly.”

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) revealed that the number of phishing websites peaked at record levels in the first quarter of 2021. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has published its new Phishing Activity Trends Report related to the first quarter of 2021. said LaCour, According to John LaCour, in Q1 2021, 94.5%

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Double extortion ransomware is a growing type of cyber-attack in which a victim’s sensitive data is first stolen, and then encrypted, giving the criminal the option of demanding two separate ransom payments. Data is compromised and already in criminal hands Already-exfiltrated sensitive data constitutes one of the most concerning trends.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Cybersecurity firm Group-IB discovered two PoS malware to steal data associated with more than 167,000 credit cards from point-of-sale payment terminals. On April 19, 2022, Group-IB researchers identified the C2 server of the POS malware called MajikPOS. NET framework” and uses encrypted communication channel to avoid detection.

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