Russia Releases List of IPs, Domains Attacking Its Infrastructure with DDoS Attacks

As the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to escalate, the Russian government on Thursday released a massive list containing 17,576 IP addresses and 166 domains that it said are behind a series of distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks aimed at its domestic infrastructure. Some of the...

Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part II: The Office

Earlier this week, a Ukrainian security researcher leaked almost two years worth of internal chat logs from Conti, one of the more rapacious and ruthless ransomware gangs in operation today. Tuesdays story examined how Conti dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security...

Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part I: Evasion

A Ukrainian security researcher this week leaked several years of internal chat logs and other sensitive data tied to Conti, an aggressive and ruthless Russian cybercrime group that focuses on deploying its ransomware to companies with more than $100 million in annual revenue. The chat logs offer...

The Conti ransomware leaks

On February 27, an individual with insights into the Conti ransomware group started leaking a treasure trove of data beginning with internal chat messages. Conti is responsible for a number of high profile attacks, including one against the Irish Healthcare system which has cost more than $48...

Conti Ransomware Group Internal Chats Leaked Over Russia-Ukraine Conflict

UPDATE: As of March 2, 2022, Conti began taking down exposed infrastructure as a result of the chat disclosure. At that time, we assessed that due to their sophisticated capability, deep funding, and quick recovery from exposed infrastructure in November 2021, they remained an active and...

Conti Ransomware Gang's Internal Chats Leaked Online After Siding With Russia

Days after the Conti ransomware group broadcasted a pro-Russian message pledging its allegiance to Vladimir Putin's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, an anonymous security researcher using the Twitter handle @ContiLeaks has leaked the syndicate's internal chats. The file dump, published by malware...

TrickBot Malware Gang Upgrades its AnchorDNS Backdoor to AnchorMail

Even as the TrickBot infrastructure closed shop, the operators of the malware are continuing to refine and retool their arsenal to carry out attacks that culminated in the deployment of Conti ransomware. IBM Security X-Force, which discovered the revamped version of the criminal gang's AnchorDNS...

Ukraine-Russia Cyber Warzone Splits Cyber Underground

The Russia-Ukraine cyber warzone has split the Conti ransomware gang into warring factions, leading to a Ukrainian member spilling 60,000 of the group’s internal chat messages online. On Monday, vx-underground – an internet collection of malware source code, samples and papers that’s generally...

TrickBot Gang Likely Shifting Operations to Switch to New Malware

TrickBot, the infamous Windows crimeware-as-a-service CaaS solution that's used by a variety of threat actors to deliver next-stage payloads like ransomware, appears to be undergoing a transition of sorts, with no new activity recorded since the start of the year. The lull in the malware campaign...

Cyberattackers Cook Up Employee Personal Data Heist for Meyer

Meyer Corp., maker of Farberware and the largest cookware and bakeware distributor in the U.S., has begun notifying 2,747 employees that a cyberattack that occurred on Oct. 25 compromised their personal data. Meyer filed a notice with the state of Maine disclosing the breach, which it discovered ...

New Zloader Banking Malware Campaign Exploiting Microsoft Signature Verification

An ongoing ZLoader malware campaign has been uncovered exploiting remote monitoring tools and a nine-year-old flaw concerning Microsoft's digital signature verification to siphon user credentials and sensitive information. Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point Research, which has been trackin...

Microsoft Sees Rampant Log4j Exploit Attempts, Testing

No surprise here: The holidays bought no Log4Shell relief. Threat actors vigorously launched exploit attempts and testing during the last weeks of December, Microsoft said on Monday, in the latest update to its landing page and guidance around the flaws in Apache’s Log4j logging library. “We have...

Conti Ransomware Group Exploiting Log4j Vulnerability

By Deeba Ahmed These attacks started on December 13 in which the group focused on targeting VMWare vCenter servers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Conti Ransomware Group Exploiting Log4j Vulnerability...

Inside Ireland’s Public Healthcare Ransomware Scare

The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Irelands public health system. The unusually candid post-mortem found that nearly two months elapsed between the initial intrusion and the launching of the...

Hotel claims Conti ransomware attack on system as guests locked out

By Deeba Ahmed So far, the Conti ransomware has not demanded any ransom or published any details of the ransomware attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hotel claims Conti ransomware attack on system as guests locked out...

Security researchers play peek-a-boo with Conti ransomware server

It’s not been a great time for ransomware authors recently. Well, some ransomware authors at any rate. While many are making huge amounts of money from their device-locking antics, its not a profession without risk. Every so often something can and does go wrong, and ransomware groups get into al...

Experts Expose Secrets of Conti Ransomware Group That Made 25 Million from Victims

The clearnet and dark web payment portals operated by the Conti ransomware group have gone down in what appears to be an attempt to shift to new infrastructure after details about the gang's inner workings and its members were made public. According to MalwareHunterTeam, "while both the clearweb...

Conti Ransomware

Conti is a sophisticated Ransomware-as-a-Service RaaS model first detected in December 2019. Since its inception, its use has grown rapidly and has even displaced the use of other RaaS tools like Ryuk. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigati...

TrickBot Operators Partner with Shathak Attackers for Conti Ransomware

The operators of TrickBot trojan are collaborating with the Shathak threat group to distribute their wares, ultimately leading to the deployment of Conti ransomware on infected machines. "The implementation of TrickBot has evolved over the years, with recent versions of TrickBot implementing...

Conti ransomware gang apologized to Arab Royals over data leak

By Waqas The data leak took place last month when the infamous Conti ransomware gang hacked Graff, a UK-based jewelry store Graff popular among the elite. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Conti ransomware gang apologized to Arab Royals over data leak...