Although ransomware has been around for the last two decades, the treat is as serious as it was back then. In fact, the intensity and sophistication of this attack have grown sharply with time. While ransomware attacks have particularly targeted state and local governments, health care sectors, private companies, and Continue Reading
In August, the Emotet botnet operators began using a new template, named ‘Red Dawn,’ for the malevolent attachments used in new operations. The Emotet malware returned in July 2020, following a five-month hiatus, and started vomiting huge amounts of malicious spam across the globe. These spam operations pretend to be invoices, shipping information, COVID-19 Continue Reading
For large ransom groups, creating so-called “leak sites” has become a major strategy in order to upload and leak important documents from firms who decline to pay the ransomware decryption fee. These sites are part of a new inclination founding on the cybercriminal underground where ransomware groups are espousing a Continue Reading
A group of newbie threat actors from Iran that has been carrying out attacks against companies in Asia and trying to encode their networks with a version of the Dharma ransomware. Cyber-security company Group-IB, which identified the group, has said that the hackers have targeted companies located in Russia, Japan, China, and India. Continue Reading
On Monday, the operators of the Maze ransomware published tens of GB of internal data from the networks of electronic behemoths LG and Xerox in the aftermath of two botched extortion attempts. The cybercriminals leaked 50.2 GB they claim to have pinched from LG’s internal network, and 25.8 GB of Continue Reading
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