Cerber: Analyzing a Ransomware Attack Methodology To Enable Protection

Ransomware is a common method of cyber extortion for financial gain that typically involves users being unable to interact with their files, applications or systems until a ransom is paid. Accessibility of cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin has directly contributed to this ransomware model. Based on...

IC3 Warns of Extortion Email Schemes

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert on extortion schemes that relate to recent high-profile data thefts. Fraudsters often use the news release of high-profile data breaches to scare victims into clicking on a link or paying a ransom. US-CERT encourages users and...

Hackers Find Bugs, Extort Ransom and Call it a Public Service

Crooks breaking into enterprise networks are holding data they steal for ransom under the guise they are doing the company a favor by exposing a flaw. The criminal act is described as bug poaching by IBM researchers and is becoming a growing new threat to businesses vulnerable to attacks. Accordi...

Empty DDoS Threats Still Net Attackers $100,000

With some members of the so-called Armada Collective in jail, another actor has decided to co-opt their technique of sending threatening DDoS extortion messages to businesses worldwide. Only difference is, this group isn’t following through with its threat, and it’s still collecting serious money...

Petya in the end is what the Ghost-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Late last month, German veteran security vendors Goethe Tower released a security report, the report pointed out the emergence of a named Petya in the new extortion Trojan. Then this new extortion Trojan the hell is going on? 0x01 Trojan overview The Trojan itself is actually technically is not...

FBI Most Wanted — Three 'Syrian Electronic Army' Hackers Charged for Cyber Crime

Syrian Electronic Army SEA Hackers have made their place on the FBI's Most Wanted List. The US Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI are willing to pay $100,000 reward for any information that leads to the arrest of the heads of the infamous hacking group Syrian...

Experts Say Bitcoin Extortionist Copycats on the Rise

Experts believe that the success tied to a recent spate of DDoS-for-hire groups may be because many are copycat collectives operating with a shorter lifespan. Researchers with Recorded Future, a Massachusetts-based firm that tracks real time threat intelligence, said Monday that they’ve noticed a...

ProtonMail Back Online Following Six Day DDoS Attack

Encrypted email service ProtonMail is back online today following a crippling six-day attack that saw the company’s ISPs and data centers under siege. Operators behind the service said the site may not always be reachable, as its servers are still under heavy strain and mitigating attack, and tha...

ProtonMail Paid Hackers $6000 Ransom in Bitcoin to Stop DDoS Attacks

The Geneva-based encrypted email service ProtonMail was forced to pay a Ransom of almost $6,000 to stop sustained Denial-of-service DDoS attacks that have knocked its service offline since Tuesday. ProtonMail – a full, end-to-end encrypted email service that launched last year – has been dealing...

TalkTalk Hackers Demand Ransom of CEO Dido Harding

Update The U.K.’s Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit this afternoon arrested a 15-year-old Northern Ireland boy in connection with the TalkTalk hack. The teen is alleged to have violated the Computer Misuse Act, a police statement said. He is being questioned at the County Antrim police station...

Hack Leads to Extortions and Suicides! Ashley Madison puts $500,000 Bounty on Hackers' Head

It's been a rough week for cheating website Ashley Madison, whose slogan is "Life is short, have an affair." Last week, the Impact Team, who claimed to hack Ashley Madison, posted 10GB of personal data for tens of Millions of its customers, including their names and email addresses. The hackers...

FBI Warns of Increase in DDoS Extortion Scams

Online scammers constantly are looking for new ways to reach into the pockets of potential victims, and the FBI says it is seeing an increase in the number of companies being targeted by scammers threatening to launch DDoS attacks if they don’t pay a ransom. The scam is a variation on a theme, th...

IC3 Issues Alert on DDoS Extortion Campaigns

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert to U.S. businesses about a rise in extortion campaigns. In a typical incident, a business receives an e-mail threatening a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack to its website unless it pays a ransom. Businesses are warned against...

The phone did not leave the body but by hacking the lock to blackmail you don't understand the Apple“security vulnerability”-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Yesterday reported that Mr. Xu transfer of second-hand Apple phone, the A 9 0 after the guy borrowed test machine of two-time with a cloud account bound, Mr. Xu phone, and extortion 3 0 0 Yuan unlocking fee. Smartphones bring to our lives a lot of convenience and even lifestyle changes. However,...

Adult Friend Finder... Hacked & 3.5 Million Users' Database Leaked Online

Until now, hackers have targeted companies and websites that hold your credit card details or medical information, but now they are showing interest in your sex life instead. You heard it right. Adult Friend Finder, a casual dating website with the tagline "hookup, find sex or meet someone hot...

17-Year-Old Hanged Himself After Receiving Police Ransomware Threat Email

Ransomware malware threat has forced somebody for the terrible suicide and once again has marked its history by somebody’s blood. Sad, but it’s True! Joseph Edwards, a 17-year-old schoolboy from Windsor, Berkshire, hanged himself after receiving a bogus email appeared to be from police claiming...

IIS discovered remote exploit code-exploit warning-the black bar safety net

IIS discovered remote exploit code. Yesterday Microsoft headquarters found to be APT hack Microsoft call engineer for overnight analysis, according to Microsoft trustworthy computing General Manager John revealed, a hacker may be by means of a Microsoft IIS server scored,the analysis may use...

Cyber Attack On 'Code Spaces' Puts Hosting Service Out of Business

Code Spaces, a code-hosting and software collaboration platform used by different organizations for project management and development needs, was forced to shut down operations after an attacker compromised its internal system and deleted its customer’s data and backups as well. This is really a...

Feedly and Evernote Hit by DDoS Attacks, Extortion Demands

Yesterday, the most popular RSS reader Feedly was down as a result of a large scale distributed-denial-of service DDoS attack carried by the cybercriminals to extort money. On Wednesday, the Feedly was temporarily unavailable for its users. Feedly posted details of the attack at 5:00 AM ET on its...

DDoS Attacks Take Down Evernote, Feedly

UPDATED — News aggregator Feedly is still offline Thursday as continues to battle a series of distributed denial of service attacks that’s kept the service down for two consecutive days. The site was able to get back online shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday after it neutralized the first DDoS attack...