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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Ransomware Group Declares Nothing Off Limits Outside of CIS Countries The BlackCat ransomware as service operation's putative "unseizing" of its leak site from the FBI is a stunt made possible by way the dark web handles address resolution, security researchers said Monday.

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APRIL 16, 2024

Stop Ransomware in its Tracks With CipherTrust Transparent Encryption Ransomware Protection madhav Wed, 04/17/2024 - 05:22 Our last blog Ransomware Attacks: The Constant and Evolving Cybersecurity Threat described the ever dangerous and evolving cybersecurity threat of ransomware. CTE-RWP is behavior-based.

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MAY 14, 2021

Colonial Pipeline Attack Used DarkSide Malware The gang behind DarkSide ransomware, which U.S. says it's closed its ransomware-as-a-service operation after losing access to part of its infrastructure. authorities say was used in the attack against Colonial Pipeline Co.,

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AUGUST 11, 2022

s National Health Service, confirms a ransomware attack by "financially motivated" threat actors is behind an IT outage that is still disrupting various NHS services, including 111. Advanced Says Some Entities Could Be Disrupted for at Least a Month Longer Advanced, a critical software and services vendor to the U.K.'s

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JANUARY 30, 2024

Manufacturer Confirms Systems Down, Data on Energy Consumption, Emission Accessed Schneider Electric confirmed a ransomware attack has locked up corporate systems of its Schneider Electric Sustainability Business division and accessed data. The company said it plans to resume operations in two business days after remediation is complete.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

million customers when they breached its systems earlier this month as part of a ransomware attack. Customers 'Sensitive Personal Information' Stolen, Large Mortgage Lender Reports Non-bank mortgage lending giant LoanDepot says hackers stole "sensitive personal information" pertaining to 16.6

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Even if Group Reboots, Disruption Already Stands as a Success, Experts Say Blue Monday arrived late this year for the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service group, after an international coalition of law enforcement agencies seized swathes of its infrastructure.

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JULY 7, 2021

But perhaps the Kaseya VSA ransomware attack wasn't quite as effective and damaging as initially feared, says Michael Daniel, President and CEO of the Cyber Threat Alliance. Michael Daniel of Cyber Threat Alliance on Impact of Latest Supply Chain Attack It was stealthy, and it was widespread. He explains where defenses succeeded.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Investment fraud and business email compromise losses dominated, and ransomware attacks spared almost no critical infrastructure sector.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) disclosed today that it infiltrated the world’s second most prolific ransomware gang, a Russia-based criminal group known as ALPHV and BlackCat. BlackCat formed by recruiting operators from several competing or disbanded ransomware organizations — including REvil , BlackMatter and DarkSide.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

authorities have seized the darknet websites run by LockBit , a prolific and destructive ransomware group that has claimed more than 2,000 victims worldwide and extorted over $120 million in payments. First surfacing in September 2019, the gang is estimated to have made hundreds of millions of U.S. Ivan Gennadievich Kondratyev , a.k.a.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

After Operation Cronos, LockBit Leader LockBitSupp's Vows to Continue Hacking Russian-speaking ransomware operation LockBit reestablished a dark web leak site Saturday afternoon, posting a lengthy screed apparently authored by its leader, who vowed not to retreat from the criminal underground world. The FBI had no comment.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2020

France's Sopra Steria Was Hit By Previously Unseen Version of Ryuk Ransomware French IT services firm Sopra Steria, which was hit with Ryuk ransomware in October, now estimates that the attack could cost the company up to $60 million in recovery costs.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Report to State Regulators Indicates Big Jump in Number of Patients Affected A Mississippi health system is notifying nearly 253,000 individuals that their data was potentially compromised in a "malicious and sophisticated ransomware" attack last August that also took IT systems offline.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Numerous Impediments Remain, Should Administrators Attempt to Reboot Operation The notorious ransomware-as-a-service group LockBit, disrupted by law enforcement this week, was developing a new version of its crypto-locking malware prior to being disrupted, security researchers report.

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WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 12, 2024

Change Healthcare ransomware hackers already received a $22 million payment. Now a second group is demanding money, and it has sent WIRED samples of what they claim is the company's stolen data.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Patient Care Still Disrupted and IT Network, EHR System Down Until Mid-December A shared IT services provider and its five Ontario member hospitals say their recovery from a Daixin Team ransomware attack in October could last into December as the group rebuilds its IT network.

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MAY 14, 2021

Conti Ransomware Blamed; No Ransom Paid After Health Service Executive, Ireland’s state health services provider, shut down all its IT systems serving hospitals in the wake of a ransomware attack early Friday, some security experts praised its decisive action and refusal to pay a ransom.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

LockBit Leader Vows to Continue Hacking Russian-speaking ransomware operation LockBit reestablished a dark web leak site Saturday afternoon, posting a lengthy screed apparently authored by its leader, who vowed not to retreat from the criminal underground world. The FBI had no comment.

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

Researcher Published Proof-of-Concept Exploit Code 1 Day After Vendor Issued Patch Ransomware-wielding attackers are targeting unpatched versions of FTP software that is widely used by large enterprises, including government and educational organizations.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As the damage caused by ransomware and profits flowing to attackers reaches record levels, a panel of cybersecurity and policy experts reviewed what it might take to ban ransom payments and whether such a ban might take a bite out of cybercrime or have unwelcome consequences. Would Criminals Care? Might Victims Still Pay?

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JUNE 25, 2021

AT&T's Alien Labs: Malware Designed to Target Servers Hosting VMware Virtual Machines The DarkSide Russian-speaking cybercrime group, which announced May 13 it was closing its ransomware-as-a-service operation, had earlier completed a Linux version of its malware designed to target ESXi servers hosting VMware virtual machines, according to AT&T’s Alien (..)

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MARCH 16, 2023

Microsoft Patches Another SmartScreen Signature-Based Vulnerability A financial motivated hacking group has been exploiting a now-patched zero-day vulnerability in the Windows operating system to deliver ransomware. Google Threat Analysis Group attributed the campaign to Magniber ransomware group.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

More Ransomware Groups Targeting Linux Systems A ransomware campaign by the recently emerged Monti ransomware group is targeting victims with a new Linux variant of its malware. The threat group is the latest in a growing number of ransomware groups finding profit in going after Linux infrastructure.

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JUNE 7, 2023

Russian-Speaking Extortion Operation Says It Will Start Listing Victims on June 14 The Clop ransomware-as-a-service gang said it's the actor behind a spate of hacks taking advantage of a vulnerability in Progress Software's MOVEit managed file transfer application. "We

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report discusses why too few organizations admit to being victims of ransomware attacks, how delayed enterprise subscription start dates forced CrowdStrike to cut sales forecasts, and leveraging threat intelligence to protect critical infrastructure.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Ardent Health Services Operates 30 Hospitals, 200 Other Care Facilities in 6 States Tennessee-based Ardent Health Services, which operates dozens of hospitals and other healthcare facilities in several states, said on Monday that it is dealing with a ransomware attack that has forced the entity to divert some patients and cancel or reschedule certain (..)

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

Multiple Organizations Victimized Over the Weekend Ransomware hackers are using a critical flaw in a DevOps tool days developer JetBrains issued a critical security update to patch its TeamCity build management and continuous integration server. Servers such as TeamCity are high-value targets since they manage source code, keys and secrets.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Security Researchers Believe Gang or its Affiliates Are Likely to Return The Maze cybercrime gang, which revolutionized the ransomware business by adding an extortion element to each attack, has issued a statement saying it has hung up its spikes and will retire, at least temporarily.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Financially Motivated Hackers Are Diversifying Operations A financially motivated criminal syndicate that mainly operates in Telegram and underground forums has expanded its criminal arsenals to deploy ransomware and other intrusion capabilities on various cloud applications, warn Mandiant researchers.

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MAY 24, 2023

Company Executive Hopes Insurance Will Help Cover Most Costs Hospital chain CommonSpirit has upped its estimate on the financial toll incurred by a ransomware incident last fall that disrupted IT systems and patient services at some of its facilities for weeks.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Aerospace Giant Says Elements of Parts and Distribution Business Are Affected Boeing has confirmed suffering a "cyber incident" affecting its parts and distribution business days after the notorious LockBit ransomware group claimed to have breached systems at the world's biggest aerospace company and to have stolen "a tremendous amount of sensitive (..)

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. There are multiple examples of ransomware groups doing just that after security researchers crowed about finding vulnerabilities in their ransomware code. This is not an idle concern.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2023

A Russian man identified by KrebsOnSecurity in January 2022 as a prolific and vocal member of several top ransomware groups was the subject of two indictments unsealed by the Justice Department today. And on April 26, 2021, Matveev and his Babuk gang allegedly deployed ransomware against the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C.

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AUGUST 9, 2022

Victims Often Attacked Simultaneously by Multiple Ransomware Groups Cybercriminals monitor leak sites for newly listed ransomware victims in a bid to try their own hand at dropping encryption malware, says Sophos.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

MGM Resorts Continuing to Be Extorted by the Same Alphv/BlackCat Ransomware Group Casino and hotel giant Caesars Entertainment is warning customers that their personal details were stolen in a recent hack attack.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Experts Emphasize Proactive Security Measures and Resilience to Mitigate Threats Information Security Media Group recently concluded its Cybersecurity Summit: London, which brought together industry leaders for a day of informative sessions covering a diverse range of critical cybersecurity topics, including CISOs' vulnerability to liability, ransomware (..)

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