New MortalKombat Ransomware Attack Aiming for Crypto Wallets

By Habiba Rashid Hackers are deploying the MortalKombat ransomware and Laplas Clipper malware in a financially motivated campaign against victims worldwide. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New MortalKombat Ransomware Attack Aiming for Crypto Wallets...

Financially Motivated Threat Actor Strikes with New Ransomware and Clipper Malware

A new financially motivated campaign that commenced in December 2022 has seen the unidentified threat actor behind it deploying a novel ransomware strain dubbed MortalKombat and a clipper malware known as Laplas. Cisco Talos said it "observed the actor scanning the internet for victim machines wi...

Financially Motivated Threat Actor Strikes with New Ransomware and Clipper Malware

A new financially motivated campaign that commenced in December 2022 has seen the unidentified threat actor behind it deploying a novel ransomware strain dubbed MortalKombat and a clipper malware known as Laplas. Cisco Talos said it "observed the actor scanning the internet for victim machines wi...

Emerging MortalKombat Ransomware and Laplas Clipper Malware Targeting Cryptocurrency

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary An unidentified actor using the MortalKombat ransomware and a GO variant of the Laplas Clipper malware to steal cryptocurrency from victims. This campaign aims to steal or demand ransom payments in...

Experts Warn of 'Beep' - A New Evasive Malware That Can Fly Under the Radar

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new piece of evasive malware dubbed Beep that's designed to fly under the radar and drop additional payloads onto a compromised host. "It seemed as if the authors of this malware were trying to implement as many anti-debugging and anti-VM anti-sandbox...

TrickBot gang members sanctioned after pandemic ransomware attacks

In a collaborative partnership, officials in the United States and the United Kingdom unmasked and imposed financial sanctions against seven members of the notorious Russian gang TrickBot alias "TrickLoader", a mainstream banking Trojan turned malware-as-a-service MaaS platform for other criminal...

New MortalKombat ransomware and Laplas Clipper malware threats deployed in financially motivated campaign

Since December 2022, Cisco Talos has been observing an unidentified actor deploying two relatively new threats, the recently discovered MortalKombat ransomware and a GO variant of the Laplas Clipper malware, to steal cryptocurrency from victims. Talos observed the actor scanning the internet for...

What Will It Take?

What will it take for policy makers to take cybersecurity seriously? Not minimal-change seriously. Not here-and-there seriously. But really seriously. What will it take for policy makers to take cybersecurity seriously enough to enact substantive legislative changes that would address the problem...

A CISOs Practical Guide to Storage and Backup Ransomware Resiliency

One thing is clear. The "business value" of data continues to grow, making it an organization's primary piece of intellectual property. From a cyber risk perspective, attacks on data are the most prominent threat to organizations. Regulators, cyber insurance firms, and auditors are paying much...

A CISOs Practical Guide to Storage and Backup Ransomware Resiliency

One thing is clear. The "business value" of data continues to grow, making it an organization's primary piece of intellectual property. From a cyber risk perspective, attacks on data are the most prominent threat to organizations. Regulators, cyber insurance firms, and auditors are paying much...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 6 February to 12 February 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Hive Pro identified three active actors over the past week. The first, OilRig, is a well-known threat actor known for its information theft and espionage activities. The secon...

New ESXiArgs encryption routine outmaneuvers recovery methods

In what seems to be a typical arms race where one side responds to counter the progress the other side has made, the ransomware group behind the massive attack on ESXi Virtual Machines VMs has come up with a new variant that can no longer be decrypted with the recovery script released by the...

Trickbot Hacking Group Jointly Sanctioned By the US and Britain

By Habiba Rashid The Trickbot botnet was dismantled in 2019, but its use by ransomware gangs evolved over the years. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Trickbot Hacking Group Jointly Sanctioned By the US and Britain...

Clop Ransomware Group Claims Responsibility for GoAnywhere MFT Attacks

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The Clop ransomware group claims responsibility for recent cyber attacks that exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the GoAnywhere MFT secure file transfer tool. The vulnerability, now known as...

CISA issues alert with South Korean government about DPRK's ransomware antics

CISA and other federal agencies were joined by the National Intelligence Service NIS and the Defense Security Agency of the Republic of Korea ROK in releasing the latest cybersecurity advisory in the US government's ongoing StopRansomware effort. This alert highlights continuous state-sponsored...

A week in security (February 6 - 12)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Two year old vulnerability used in ransomware attack against VMware ESXi On the 20th Safer Internet Day, what was security like back in 2004? Florida hospital takes entire IT systems offline after 'ransomware attack' Introducing Malwarebytes Mobile Security for...

New ESXiArgs Ransomware Variant Emerges After CISA Releases Decryptor Tool

After the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA released a decryptor for affected victims to recover from ESXiArgs ransomware attacks, the threat actors have bounced back with an updated version that encrypts more data. The emergence of the new variant was reported by a syste...

New ESXiArgs Ransomware Variant Emerges After CISA Releases Decryptor Tool

After the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA released a decryptor for affected victims to recover from ESXiArgs ransomware attacks, the threat actors have bounced back with an updated version that encrypts more data. The emergence of the new variant was reported by a syste...

CISA Warns of Active Attacks Exploiting Fortra MFT, TerraMaster NAS, and Intel Driver Flaws

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Friday added three flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active abuse in the wild. Included among the three is CVE-2022-24990, a bug affecting TerraMaster network-attached storage TNAS devices...

Talos Takes 128: Year in Review - Ransomware and Commodity Loaders Edition

Were back with the final year in review focused episode. This time the focus is on the ever broadening ransomware landscape and the commodity malware loaders that often support it. Ill be joined by one of the researchers from the year in review report, Aliza Johnson to talk about what we saw on t...