Cyber Security Giant Mandiant Denies Hacking Claims By LockBit Ransomware

By Deeba Ahmed According to a Mandiant representative, the company was aware of LockBit 2.0 claims, but there was no evidence of… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cyber Security Giant Mandiant Denies Hacking Claims By LockBit Ransomware...

Cuba Ransomware Group’s New Variant Found Using Optimized Infection Techniques

Trend Micro Research observed the resurgence of the Cuba ransomware group that launched a new malware variant using different infection techniques compared to past iterations. We discuss our initial findings in this report...

Ransomware Task Force priorities see progress in first year

This blog is part of our live coverage from RSA Conference 2022: US President Joseph R. Biden Jr., The White House, and law enforcement agencies across the world paid close attention last year when a group of more than 60 cybersecurity experts launched the Ransomware Task Force, heeding the group...

Close the Gap Between IT & Security with Our New App: Qualys VMDR for ITSM

In recent years, the world has seen an alarming rise in cyber-attacks. According to the just released Verizon DBIR report, the rate of increase of ransomware attacks in 2021 was greater than its rate of increase in the last five years, combined. Malicious exploitation of vulnerabilities continues...

Evil Corp Cybercrime Group Shifts to LockBit Ransomware to Evade Sanctions

The threat cluster dubbed UNC2165, which shares numerous overlaps with a Russia-based cybercrime group known as Evil Corp, has been linked to multiple LockBit ransomware intrusions in what's seen as an attempt by the latter to get around sanctions imposed by the U.S. Treasury in December 2019...

Hacking Scenarios: How Hackers Choose Their Victims

Enforcing the "double-extortion" technique aka pay-now-or-get-breached emerged as a head-turner last year. May 6th, 2022 is a recent example. The State Department said the Conti strain of ransomware was the most costly in terms of payments made by victims as of January. Conti, a...

Prometheus ransomware’s flaws inspired researchers to try to build a near-universal decryption tool

This blog is part of our live coverage from RSA Conference 2022: Prometheus—a ransomware build based on Thanos that locked up victims’ computers in the summer of 2021—included a major “vulnerability” that led security researchers at IBM to try and build a one-size-fits-all ransomware decryptor th...

A week in security (May 30 – June 5)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Intuit phish says "We have put a temporary hold on your account" The Quad commits to strengthening cybersecurity in software, supply chains Double-whammy attack follows fake Covid alert with a bogus bank call Microsoft Office zero-day "Follina"—its not a bug, its a...

CVE-2022-30190 (Follina) vulnerability in MSDT: description and counteraction

At the end of May, researchers from the naosec team reported a new zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool MSDT that can be exploited using Microsoft Office documents. It allowed attackers to remotely execute code on Windows systems, while the victim could not even open the...

Closing the Door: DeadBolt Ransomware Locks Out Vendors With Multitiered Extortion Scheme

In this report, we investigate the reasons that the DeadBolt ransomware family is more problematic for its victims than other ransomware families that previously targeted NAS devices...

Growling Bears Make Thunderous Noise

Growling Bears Make Thunderous Noise By Trellix · June 6, 2022 Per public attribution, Russian cybercriminal groups have always been active. Their tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs have not significantly evolved over time, although some changes have been observed. Lately, the threat...

Connected Healthcare: A Cybersecurity Battlefield We Must Win

Connected Healthcare: A Cybersecurity Battlefield We Must Win By Charles McFarland · June 6, 2022 We are commonly taught to prioritize the most critical, severe, or impactful tasks when trying to conquer a list of intimidating problems. Yet, how is this possible when presented with two tasks of...

Connected Healthcare: A Cybersecurity Battlefield We Must Win

Connected Healthcare: A Cybersecurity Battlefield We Must Win By Trellix · June 6, 2022 This blog was written by Charles McFarland We are commonly taught to prioritize the most critical, severe, or impactful tasks when trying to conquer a list of intimidating problems. Yet, how is this possible...

The Hacker Gold Rush That's Poised to Eclipse Ransomware

As governments crack down on ransomware, cybercriminals may soon shift to business email compromise—already the world's most profitable type of scam...

Ransomware: May 2022 review

The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team monitors the threat landscape continuously and produces monthly ransomware reports based on a mixture of proprietary and open-source intelligence. Conti sleight of hand? Although LockBit remained the most widely-deployed ransomware in May 2022, it was,...

Old Hacks Die Hard: Ransomware, Social Engineering Top Verizon DBIR Threats – Again

Ransomware and social engineering continue to dominate challenges facing cybersecurity professionals, according to Verizon’s 15th annual Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR. In general, the results of DBIR merely confirm well-established trends, such as the growing threats of ransomware – up 1...

Evil Corp Pivots LockBit to Dodge U.S. Sanctions

Evil Corp has shifted tactics once again, this time pivoting to LockBit ransomware after U.S. sanctions have made it difficult for the cybercriminal group to reap financial gain from its activity, researchers have found. Researchers from Mandiant Intelligence have been tracking a “financially...

Conti Leaks Reveal Ransomware Gang's Interest in Firmware-based Attacks

An analysis of leaked chats from the notorious Conti ransomware group earlier this year has revealed that the syndicate has been working on a set of firmware attack techniques that could offer a path to accessing privileged code on compromised devices. "Control over firmware gives attackers...

Cybercriminals Expand Attack Radius and Ransomware Pain Points

AUTHOR: Melissa Bischoping is director, endpoint security research specialist at Tanium When ransomware strikes, security teams and business leaders are immediately faced with a flurry of questions, including: “Is the vulnerability patched?” “Does my vendor/supplier/customer’s compromise affect m...

Researchers Demonstrate Ransomware for IoT Devices That Targets IT and OT Networks

As ransomware infections have evolved from purely encrypting data to schemes such as double and triple extortion, a new attack vector is likely to set the stage for future campaigns. Called Ransomware for IoT or R4IoT by Forescout, it's a "novel, proof-of-concept ransomware that exploits an IoT...