ransomware

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

Available as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), BlackByte has been used in attacks against US and foreign businesses, including in critical infrastructure sectors such as government, financial, and food and agriculture, the FBI and USSS warn. BlackByte operators recently claimed to have obtained financial data from the San Francisco 49ers as a result of an attack that…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

You might have the luxury of time when planning for a vacation, but cybersecurity teams do not have the time to hunt in the wrong haystack when responding to security incidents. Every second matters in the wake of an intrusion detection, as threat actors move quickly from the first breach point to various other points…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Blog Malwarebytes

Ransomware tends to target organizations. Corporations not only house a trove of valuable data they can’t function without, but they are also expected to cough up a considerable amount of ransom money in exchange for their encrypted files. And while corporations struggle to keep up with attacks, ransomware groups have left the average consumer relatively…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

The company’s researchers have analyzed the roughly 2,600 data leaks that resulted from ransomware attacks in 2021 and determined that approximately 1,300 of them impacted critical infrastructure and industrial organizations. An investigation of 70 of these leaks showed that ten of them contained technically sensitive OT information. Mandiant’s analysis included manually browsing through file listings…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Ransomware incidents have increased dramatically over the past few years. Complaints about ransomware attacks to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center surged 62% in the first half of 2021 compared to a similar time frame in 2020, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. To blunt this growing threat, security professionals need to understand…

Application Security, Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

Mike Sentonas, CTO at CrowdStrike, comments, “Frankly put, supply chains are vulnerable, and adversaries are actively researching ways to take advantage of this. We haven’t nearly seen the end of these attacks, and the implications for each one are significant for both the victims and the victims’ customers and partners up and down the chain.”…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

Members of the hacker group, also known as Sodinokibi, have been charged with crimes in Russia, and its infrastructure has “been liquidated,” the public relations arm of Moscow’s FSB security agency told Russia’s Interfax news agency. The special operation, conducted by Russian authorities, was reportedly at the request of the United States. “The FSB of…