Ransomware attack turns 2022 into 1977 for Somerset County

1977 was quite the year. Led Zeppelin! Jimmy Carter! Saturday Night Fever! We can now add "a ransomware attack" to this once static list. Somerset County, New Jersey, has been hit so hard by a network assault that theyve ended up in the direst straits imaginable, with county databases unavailable...

YourCyanide: A CMD-Based Ransomware With Multiple Layers of Obfuscation

The Trend Micro Threat Hunting team recently analyzed a series of CMD-based ransomware variants with a number capabilities such as stealing user information, bypassing remote desktop connections, and propagating through email and physical drives...

YourCyanide: A CMD-based Ransomware With Multiple Layers of Obfuscation

The Trend Micro Threat Hunting team recently analyzed a series of CMD-based ransomware variants with a number capabilities such as stealing user information, bypassing remote desktop connections, and propagating through email and physical drives...

New PoC Shows IoT Devices Can Be Hacked to Install Ransomware on OT Networks

By Deeba Ahmed In this PoC, the ransomware attack dubbed R4IoT uses vulnerable IoT devices in this case, vulnerable security cameras… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New PoC Shows IoT Devices Can Be Hacked to Install Ransomware on OT Networks...

3 ways DNS filtering can save SMBs from cyberattacks

If you’re an SMB, chances are that you’re already well-aware of the fact that cyber threats can wreak havoc on your business. Everything from rootkits to ransomware threaten not just financial losses, but also significant network downtime and reputational damage as well. Couple this with the fact...

Using Python to unearth a goldmine of threat intelligence from leaked chat logs

Dealing with a great amount of data can be time consuming, thus using Python can be very powerful to help analysts sort information and extract the most relevant data for their investigation. The open-source tools library, MSTICPy, for example, is a Python tool dedicated to threat intelligence. I...

Using Python to unearth a goldmine of threat intelligence from leaked chat logs

Dealing with a great amount of data can be time consuming, thus using Python can be very powerful to help analysts sort information and extract the most relevant data for their investigation. The open-source tools library, MSTICPy, for example, is a Python tool dedicated to threat intelligence. I...

Costa Rica May Be Pawn in Conti Ransomware Group’s Bid to Rebrand, Evade Sanctions

Costa Ricas national health service was hacked sometime earlier this morning by a Russian ransomware group known as Hive. The intrusion comes just weeks after Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared a state of emergency in response to a data ransom attack from a different Russian ransomware...

FBI warns of education sector credentials on dark web forums

The FBI is warning academics to be on their guard, as an embattled education sector continues to experience attacks and breaches, with data spilling onto the so-called dark web. The government agencys Private Industry Notification PDF cites US academic credentials up for grabs from a variety of...

Malicious code in npm_ransomware (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware d36a3797d1241ecfbc15ed232de05df1b5b550c68a8eadeffa9f432f12ccd210 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

3 Takeaways From the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report

Sometimes, data surprises you. When it does, it can force you to rethink your assumptions and second-guess the way you look at the world. But other times, data can reaffirm your assumptions, giving you hard proof they're the right ones — and providing increased motivation to act decisively based ...

ChromeLoader Browser Hijacker Provides Gateway to Bigger Threats

ChromeLoader may seem on the surface like a run-of-the-mill browser hijacker that merely redirects victims to advertisement websites. However, its use of PowerShell could pose a greater risk by leading to further and advanced malicious activity, such as the propagation of ransomware or spyware or...

A week in security (May 23 – 29)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Update now! Nvidia released fixes for 10 flaws in Windows GPU drivers Chicago students lose data to ransomware attackers Hunting down your data with Whitney Merrill: Lock and Code S03E11 Unknown APT group has targeted Russia repeatedly since Ukraine invasion Zero-d...

New 'GoodWill' Ransomware Forces Victims to Donate Money and Clothes to the Poor

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new ransomware strain called GoodWill that compels victims into donating for social causes and provide financial assistance to people in need. "The ransomware group propagates very unusual demands in exchange for the decryption key," researchers from...

FBI Warns About Hackers Selling VPN Credentials for U.S. College Networks

Network credentials and virtual private network VPN access for colleges and universities based in the U.S. are being advertised for sale on underground and public criminal marketplaces. "This exposure of sensitive credential and network access information, especially privileged user accounts, cou...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Trend Micro Apex One

Vulnerabilities have been fixed in Trend Micro Apex One. A malicious party could potentially exploit the vulnerability to increase its permissions and thereby load untrusted files. load. Trend Micro has released updates to fix the vulnerabilities fixes in Apex One. For more information, see:...

The Myths of Ransomware Attacks and How To Mitigate Risk

Today's modern companies are built on data, which now resides across countless cloud apps. Therefore preventing data loss is essential to your success. This is especially critical for mitigating against rising ransomware attacks — a threat that 57% of security leaders expect to be compromised by...

Ransomware-Simulator - Ransomware Simulator Written In Golang

The goal of this repository is to provide a simple, harmless way to check your AV's protection on ransomware. This tool simulates typical ransomware behaviour, such as: Staging from a Word document macro Deleting Volume Shadow Copies Encrypting documents embedded and dropped by the simulator into...

IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. Non-mobile statistics

IT threat evolution in Q1 2022 IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. Non-mobile statistics IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. Mobile statistics These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products and services received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Quarterly...

Cybergang Claims REvil is Back, Executes DDoS Attacks

The defunct REvil ransomware gang is claiming responsibility for a recent distributed denial of service DDoS campaign against a hospitality customer of cloud networking provider Akamai. However, it’s highly possible the attack is not a resurgence of the infamous cybercriminal group but a copycat...