Tech Time Warp: Cryptolocker spreads fast and at great cost
Thirteen years ago, computer users in the United States were returning to the office after the long Labor Day weekend when reports began surfacing of a new virus: Cryptolocker. The...
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Thirteen years ago, computer users in the United States were returning to the office after the long Labor Day weekend when reports began surfacing of a new virus: Cryptolocker. The...
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Loan applications, Social Security numbers, mortgage docs - all allegedly stolen
Feds claim he charged clients more than ransoms, paid up, pocketed the difference
Settra ransomware is emerging as a serious threat to Windows networks after investigators linked it to two recent intrusions involving remote-management software and recovery-block...
Ransom notes by n0n ransomware claim to take double extortion to a new level of danger for victims
Panzer ransomware has emerged as a new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation, publishing 16 alleged victims across 11 countries while combining data theft with file encryption....
A newly identified information-stealing campaign, tracked as Rapuncel, is exploiting a Microsoft-attested kernel driver to terminate up to 145 antivirus (AV) and endpoint detection...
The Cofense Phishing Defense Center (PDC) team has recently investigated a newly emerged Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation organized by the Global Group, a financially motiv...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced charges against a 50-year-old U.S. and Israeli national for allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying t...
Feral Wolf has expanded its ransomware tradecraft by abusing exposed Atlassian Confluence servers and insecure 1C:Enterprise deployments to gain access to Russian corporate network...
A newly observed ransomware operation dubbed SETTRA is abusing the legitimate MeshAgent remote monitoring and management platform for persistence while using recovery-inhibition an...
A ransomware operation known as The Gentlemen is using a mix of security tampering, service disruption and file encryption to make recovery harder for affected organizations. Its W...
Ransomware groups are increasingly targeting backup infrastructure to eliminate recovery options and increase pressure on victims to pay. Kaseya explains why organizations need iso...
My Microsoft SQL Server data files were locked during a recent LockBit 3.0 (Black) incident and I need them brought back to a usable state. I already have the official decryptor an...
A new Android malware strain called Mantax Otax combines ransomware and spyware capabilities to encrypt files, steal sensitive data, and spam and harass victims. [...]
Editor’s Note: Zohar Pinhasi, owner of Florida ransomware-recovery firm MonsterCloud, was arraigned Oct. 7 in Brooklyn on federal charges that he told clients he had proprietary de...
Sauron Loader has surfaced in attacks on German organizations, giving intruders a way to deliver more malware. The new tool need not be the first thing a victim encounters. In the...
AI Image, for illustration purposes If you searched for “LastPass Authenticator download” and landed on a shiny GitHub page with LastPass branding and fake “VirusTotal Approved” ba...
An ongoing malware campaign uses SEO-optimized GitHub repositories to impersonate well-known software firms to push a previously undocumented information stealer called Rapuncel....
The man allegedly wrote the code that powered the Lockergoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim operations
Elastic Security Labs has documented four previously unreported programs associated with REVSTEALER, an emerging Windows information stealer, that remain on an infected machine aft...
An indictment says Zohar Pinhasi's MonsterCloud billed ransomware victims millions for a decryptor it did not have, then paid the attackers a fraction of that fee.
A new Windows malware loader called AvisLoader uses encrypted peer-to-peer communications to make command-and-control infrastructure harder to disrupt. Varonis researchers explain...
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