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Secure your OT and IoT devices with Microsoft Defender for IoT and Quzara Cybertorch™
This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. In recent years, malicious actors have started attacking industrial control systems and key sectors of nations’ critical infrastructure to inflict damage that transcends the cyber...
Russia Leaks Data From a Thousand Cuts–Podcast
Information about nuclear plants and air force capabilities. Conti ransomware gang crooks conjecturing that the National Security Agency NSA was maybe behind the mysterious, months-long TrickBot lull. Doxxed data about 120K Russian soldiers. Those are just some of the sensitive, valuable data...
Four key cybersecurity practices during geopolitical upheaval
Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine has altered the landscape of cybersecurity threats facing organizations both near and far from the physical threat of war. Disinformation is spreading and being actively fought. The old hacker group Anonymous promised “cyber war” against Russia. One ransomwa...
Hackers Who Broke Into NVIDIA's Network Leak DLSS Source Code Online
American chipmaking company NVIDIA on Tuesday confirmed that its network was breached as a result of a cyber attack, enabling the perpetrators to gain access to sensitive data, including source code purportedly associated with its Deep Learning Super Sampling DLSS technology. "We have no evidence...
U.S. Senate Passes Cybersecurity Bill to Strengthen Critical Infrastructure Security
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the "Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act" on Tuesday in an attempt to bolster the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure owners in the country. The new bipartisan legislation, among other things, stipulates entities that experience a cyber incident to...
Conti Ransomware Decryptor, TrickBot Source Code Leaked
The pro-Ukraine member of the Conti ransomware gang who promised to eviscerate the extortionists after they pledged support for the Russian government has spilled yet more Conti guts: The latest dump includes source code for Conti ransomware, TrickBot malware, a decryptor and the gang’s...
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...
LIVE Webinar: Key Lessons Learned from Major Cyberattacks in 2021 and What to Expect in 2022
With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to impact, and perhaps permanently changing, how we work, cybercriminals again leveraged the distraction in new waves of cyberattacks. Over the course of 2021 we saw an increase in multiple attack approaches; some old, some new. Phishing and ransomware...
Ukrainian Targets Hit by HermeticWiper, New Datawiper Malware
The Ukrainian Government has been targeted by HermeticWiper, a new ransomware-like data wiper. Its aim is not simply to encrypt the victim’s data, but rather to render a system essentially unusable. In this blog, our Research Team details our analysis of how this aggressive new malware works. The...
The Bug Report - February 2022 Edition
The Bug Report - February 2022 By Jesse Chick · March 2, 2022 Your Cybersecurity Comic Relief Image courtesy of https://toggl.com/ Why am I here? Welcome back to the Bug Report, stubby-month edition! For those in the audience unfamiliar with our shtick, every month we compile a shortlist of the t...
Conti chat logs leaked as ransomware gang sides with Russia
By Waqas The individual responsible for leaking Conti chat logs has warned the ransomware gang that more files will be… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Conti chat logs leaked as ransomware gang sides with Russia...
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...
Second New 'IsaacWiper' Data Wiper Targets Ukraine After Russian Invasion
A new data wiper malware has been observed deployed against an unnamed Ukrainian government network, a day after destructive cyber attacks struck multiple entities in the country preceding the start of Russia's military invasion. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET dubbed the new malware "IsaacWiper,"...
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...
Elections GoRansom – a smoke screen for the HermeticWiper attack
Executive summary On February 24, 2022, Avast Threat Research published a tweet announcing the discovery of new Golang ransomware, which they called HermeticRansom. This malware was found around the same time the HermeticWiper was found, and based on publicly available information from security...
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...
Decrypting Hive Ransomware Data
Nice piece of research: Abstract: Among the many types of malicious codes, ransomware poses a major threat. Ransomware encrypts data and demands a ransom in exchange for decryption. As data recovery is impossible if the encryption key is not obtained, some companies suffer from considerable damag...
