SEC Filing Reveals Fortune 500 Firm Targeted in Ransomware Attack

Fortune 500 integrated services firm R.R.Donnelley & Sons RRD is the latest victim of the hacking collective known as the Conti Group. According to regulatory disclosures RRD was the victim of a network breach that resulted in stolen data in December. RRD, a global firm with 33,000 employees,...

FIN8 Hacker group using new ‘White Rabbit’ Ransomware against U.S. Banks

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. White Rabbit is a ransomware family that has only recently been discovered. It could be a subsidiary project of the FIN8 hacking gang. A ransomware expert seeking for a sample of the malware made the first public disclosure...

Ransomware Builder Babuk Insecure Permissions

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2022 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/5dfa998f62612e10d5d28d26948dd50f.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Ransomware Builder Babuk Vulnerability: Insecure Permissions Description: The malware creates...

Update on WhisperGate, Destructive Malware Targeting Ukraine – Threat Intelligence & Protections Update

Update on WhisperGate, Destructive Malware Targeting Ukraine – Threat Intelligence & Protections Update By Taylor Mullins, Mo Cashman and Raj Samani · January 20, 2022 Recent news reports of a “ransomware” campaign targeting Ukraine has resulted in significant press coverage regarding not only...

Update on WhisperGate, Destructive Malware Targeting Ukraine – Threat Intelligence & Protections Update

Update on WhisperGate, Destructive Malware Targeting Ukraine – Threat Intelligence & Protections Update By Taylor Mullins, Mo Cashman and Raj Samani · January 20, 2022 Recent news reports of a “ransomware” campaign targeting Ukraine has resulted in significant press coverage regarding not only...

Return of Pseudo Ransomware

Return of Pseudo Ransomware By Trellix, Max Kersten and Raj Samani · January 20, 2022 Arnab Roy, Filippo Sitzia and Mo Cashman contributed to the research supporting this blog Recent news reports of a “ransomware” campaign targeting Ukraine has resulted in significant press coverage regarding not...

Ransomware Builder Babuk Insecure Permissions Vulnerability

Ransomware Builder Babuk malware suffers from an insecure permissions vulnerability. Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2022 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/5dfa998f62612e10d5d28d26948dd50f.txt Contact: email protected Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Ransomware Builder...

Return of Pseudo Ransomware

Return of Pseudo Ransomware By Trellix, Max Kersten and Raj Samani · January 20, 2022 Arnab Roy, Filippo Sitzia and Mo Cashman contributed to the research supporting this blog Recent news reports of a “ransomware” campaign targeting Ukraine has resulted in significant press coverage regarding not...

Destructive Wiper Targeting Ukraine Aimed at Eroding Trust

Russia is positioned for a hot-war attack on Ukraine that the Biden administration warned could come “at any point” — but the country is already suffering an attack of a different kind. A sweeping malware campaign remains ongoing, which experts agree is intended to permanently disrupt organizatio...

FIN8 Hackers Spotted Using New 'White Rabbit' Ransomware in Recent Attacks

The financially motivated FIN8 actor, in all likelihood, has resurfaced with a never-before-seen ransomware strain called "White Rabbit" that was recently deployed against a local bank in the U.S. in December 2021. That's according to new findings published by Trend Micro, calling out the malware...

2022 Threat Predictions

Trellix 2022 Threat Predictions By Trellix · January 19, 2022 Ransomware, nation states, social media, and a shifting reliance on a remote workforce made headlines in 2021, proving that bad actors only continue to rise to the challenge. Defiantly, they thwart solution stacks and gain momentum eac...

2022 Threat Predictions

Trellix 2022 Threat Predictions By Trellix · January 19, 2022 Ransomware, nation states, social media, and a shifting reliance on a remote workforce made headlines in 2021, proving that bad actors only continue to rise to the challenge. Defiantly, they thwart solution stacks and gain momentum eac...

The Log4j Vulnerability Puts Pressure on the Security World

It’s not my intention to be alarmist about the Log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-44228, known as Log4Shell, but this one is pretty bad. First of all, Log4j is a ubiquitous logging library that is very widely used by millions of computers. Second, the director of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure...

Europol takes down VPN service VPNLab used by ransomware operators

By Waqas According to Europol, VPNLabs was providing services to malware and ransomware operators who would mask their IP addresses… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Europol takes down VPN service VPNLab used by ransomware operators...

Why we don’t patch, with Jess Dodson: Lock and Code S03E02

In 2017, the largest ransomware attack ever recorded hit the world, infecting more than 230,000 computers across more than 150 countries in just 24 hours. And it could have been solved with a patch that was released nearly two months prior. This was the WannaCry ransomware attack, and its final,...

New ‘White Rabbit’ Ransomware May Be New FIN8 Tool

A new ransomware family, White Rabbit, chewed through a local U.S. bank last month — and it may be connected to the financially motivated advanced persistent threat APT group known as FIN8, researchers said. In a Tuesday report, Trend Micro researchers said that this twicky wabbit knows how to...

Organizations Face a ‘Losing Battle’ Against Vulnerabilities

After a banner year for vulnerabilities and cyberattacks in 2021, organizations believe they are fighting a “losing battle” against security vulnerabilities and threats, “despite the billions of dollars spent collectively on cybersecurity technology,” according to an annual security report from...

Europol Shuts Down VPNLab, Cybercriminals' Favourite VPN Service

VPNLab.net, a VPN provider that was used by malicious actors to deploy ransomware and facilitate other cybercrimes, was taken offline following a coordinated law enforcement operation. Europol said it took action against the misuse of the VPN service by grounding 15 of its servers on January 17 a...

New Ransomware Spotted: White Rabbit and Its Evasion Tactics

We analyze the ransomware White Rabbit and bring into focus the familiar evasion tactics employed by this newcomer...

Ukraine government entities targeted by a destructive malware “Whispergate”

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. A malware attack was carried out on Ukraine government, non-profit, and IT entities with a wiper disguised as ransomware. The threat actor, DEV-0586 targeted government bodies that provide critical executive branch or emergen...