‘Double-Extortion’ Ransomware Damage Skyrockets 935%

The ransomware business is booming, and feeble corporate security and a flourishing ransomware-as-a-service RaaS affiliate market are to blame, researchers say. Access to compromised networks is cheap, thanks to a rise in the number of initial-access brokers and RaaS tools can turn everyday petty...

Planned Parenthood Breach Opens Patients to Follow-On Attacks

Planned Parenthood’s Los Angeles PPLA division has been hacked, with cyberattackers making off with sensitive personal health information for at least 400,000 patients. In a data-breach notice PDF filed with the state of California, the organization said that it had detected the intrusion on Oct...

Planned Parenthood data breach: Hackers steal 400,000 patients’ data

By Waqas According to Planned Parenthood, the latest data breach has affected its Los Angeles branch PPLA after it suffered a ransomware attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Planned Parenthood data breach: Hackers steal 400,000 patients data...

Yanluowang Ransomware Tied to Thieflock Threat Actor

A threat actor previously tied to the Thieflock ransomware operation may now be using the emerging Yanluowang ransomware in a series of attacks against U.S. corporations, researchers have found. Researchers from Symantec, a division of Broadcom Software, found ties between Thieflock and Yanluowan...

Hackers all over the world are targeting Tasmania’s emergency services

Emergency services—under which the police, fire, and emergency medical services departments fall—is an infrastructure vital to any country or state. But when those services come under threat from either physical or cyber entities, it’s as good as putting the lives of citizens at risk as well...

A week in security (Nov 22 – Nov 28)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs How to defend your website against card skimmers Security researchers play peek-a-boo with Conti ransomware server Windows 10 chills out, gives sysadmins a break Please dont buy this! 3 gift card scams to watch out for this Black Friday Millions of GoDaddy customer...

Hackers Using Compromised Google Cloud Accounts to Mine Cryptocurrency

Threat actors are exploiting improperly-secured Google Cloud Platform GCP instances to download cryptocurrency mining software to the compromised systems as well as abusing its infrastructure to install ransomware, stage phishing campaigns, and even generate traffic to YouTube videos for view cou...

Hackers Targeting Biomanufacturing Facilities With Tardigrade Malware

An advanced persistent threat APT has been linked to cyberattacks on two biomanufacturing companies that occurred this year with the help of a custom malware loader called "Tardigrade." That's according to an advisory published by Bioeconomy Information Sharing and Analysis Center BIO-ISAC this...

Crypto Hackers Using Babadeda Crypter to Make Their Malware Undetectable

A new malware campaign has been discovered targeting cryptocurrency, non-fungible token NFT, and DeFi aficionados through Discord channels to deploy a crypter named "Babadeda" that's capable of bypassing antivirus solutions and stage a variety of attacks. "This malware installer has been used in ...

Swire Pacific Offshore Operations hit by Cl0p ransomware gang

By Waqas As seen by Hackread.com, the Cl0p ransomware gang has leaked partial SPO data including names, email addresses, passport scans, and more. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Swire Pacific Offshore Operations hit by Cl0p ransomware gang...

Google’s Threat Horizons report: Will the straightforward approach get results?

Google’s Cybersecurity Action Team has released a Threat Horizons report focusing on cloud security. It’s taken some criticism for being surprisingly straightforward and less complex than you may expect. On the other hand, many businesses simply don’t understand many of the threats at large...

Attackers Will Flock to Crypto Wallets, Linux in 2022: Podcast

Ransomware is on the rise, and attackers are massing in never-before-seen numbers, lining up to find victims. Could the new year possibly get any worse? According to FortiGuard Labs, the answer is yes. According to its 2022 predictions, upcoming threats will target an expanding attack surface,...

Ransom Your Employer Email Scam Suspect Arrested

By Deeba Ahmed The scam involved attempts to hire insiders to install DemonWare ransomware on their employer's IT systems. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ransom Your Employer Email Scam Suspect Arrested...

Common Cloud Misconfigurations Exploited in Minutes, Report

Poorly configured cloud services can be exploit by threat actors in minutes and sometimes in under 30 seconds. Attacks include network intrusion, data theft and ransomware infections, researchers have found. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 used a honeypot infrastructure of 320 nodes...

The Importance of IT Security in Your Merger Acquisition

In the business world, mergers and acquisitions are commonplace as businesses combine, acquire, and enter various partnerships. Mergers and Acquisitions M&A are filled with often very complicated and complex processes to merge business processes, management, and a whole slew of other aspects of...

The dangers of “connected” healthcare: predictions for 2022

For a second consecutive year, the time for Kaspersky to make its predictions for the healthcare sector comes amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, the virus still dominates most aspects of our lives, and, of course, the pandemic remained the biggest and most-discussed topic in...

Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2022

First of all, we are going to analyze the forecasts we made at the end of 2020 and see how accurate they were. Then we will go through the key events of 2021 relating to attacks on financial organizations. Finally, we will make some forecasts about financial attacks in 2022. Analysis of forecasts...

Arrest in ‘Ransom Your Employer’ Email Scheme

In August, KrebsOnSecurity warned that scammers were contacting people and asking them to unleash ransomware inside their employers network, in exchange for a percentage of any ransom amount paid by the victim company. This week, authorities in Nigeria arrested a suspect in connection with the...

Security researchers play peek-a-boo with Conti ransomware server

It’s not been a great time for ransomware authors recently. Well, some ransomware authors at any rate. While many are making huge amounts of money from their device-locking antics, its not a profession without risk. Every so often something can and does go wrong, and ransomware groups get into al...

Reminder for Critical Infrastructure to Stay Vigilant Against Threats During Holidays and Weekends

As Americans prepare to hit the highways and airports this Thanksgiving holiday, CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI are reminding critical infrastructure partners that malicious cyber actors aren’t making the same holiday plans as you. Recent history tells us that this could be a ti...