An Ambitious Plan to Tackle Ransomware Faces Long Odds

A task force counting Amazon, Cisco, and the FBI among its members has proposed a framework to solve one of cybersecurity's biggest problems. Good luck...

UNC2447 SOMBRAT and FIVEHANDS Ransomware: A Sophisticated Financial Threat

Mandiant has observed an aggressive financially motivated group, UNC2447, exploiting one SonicWall VPN zero-day vulnerability prior to a patch being available and deploying sophisticated malware previously reported by other vendors as SOMBRAT. Mandiant has linked the use of SOMBRAT to the...

Microsoft Office SharePoint Targeted With High-Risk Phish, Ransomware Attacks

A phishing campaign, discovered by researchers at Cofense, is draping itself in a Microsoft Office SharePoint theme and successfully bypassing security email gateways SEGs. In a post on Tuesday, the firm said that this is an example of why it’s not always prudent to share documents via Microsoft’...

Ransomware group threatens to leak information about police informants

UPDATE 12:12 PM Pacific Time, April 28: As of at least 9:40 AM Pacific Time, the Babuk ransomware gang removed any reference to the allegedly stolen DC Police Department data from its data leak website. This does not indicate with any certainty that the DC Police Department paid Babuk, but it is...

D.C. Police Department suffers ransomware attack

By Deeba Ahmed The group behind the ransomware attack is the Babuk Locker gang. The Department has acknowledged the attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: D.C. Police Department suffers ransomware attack...

Meet critical infrastructure security compliance requirements with Microsoft 365

Critical infrastructure operators face a hostile cyber threat environment and a complex compliance landscape. Every operator of an industrial control system also operates an IT network to service its productivity needs. A supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA system operator of a power...

Meet critical infrastructure security compliance requirements with Microsoft 365

Critical infrastructure operators face a hostile cyber threat environment and a complex compliance landscape. Every operator of an industrial control system also operates an IT network to service its productivity needs. A supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA system operator of a power...

Babuk Ransomware Gang Targets Washington D.C. Police

The Babuk gang of threat actors claims to have stolen more than 250 gigabytes of data from the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department MPD on Monday, including police reports, internal memos, and arrested people’s mug shots and personal details. According to Vice, the attackers published t...

Hackers Threaten to Leak D.C. Police Informants' Info If Ransom Is Not Paid

The Metropolitan Police Department MPD of the District of Columbia has become the latest high-profile government agency to fall victim to a ransomware attack. The Babuk Locker gang claimed in a post on the dark web that they had compromised the DC Police's networks and stolen 250 GB of unencrypte...

Hello Ransomware Uses Updated China Chopper Web Shell, SharePoint Vulnerability

We discuss the technical features of a Hello ransomware attack, including its exploitation of CVE-2019-0604 and the use of a modified version of the China Chopper web shell...

Emotet Malware Destroys Itself From All Infected Computers

Emotet, the notorious email-based Windows malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks, was automatically wiped from infected computers en masse following a European law enforcement operation. The development comes three months after a coordinated disruption of Emote...

2021. The age of the super vulnerability?

I don’t know about you, but to me it seems that every week we are seeing another vulnerability that not only grants significant access to the vulnerable system but also more widely internally. This last week we have seen the latest round of Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities. The April 2021 updat...

Prometei Botnet Could Fire Up APT-Style Attacks

A heretofore little-seen botnet dubbed Prometei is taking a page from advanced persistent threat APT cyberattackers: The malware is exploiting two of the Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities collectively known as ProxyLogon, in order to drop a Monero cryptominer on its targets. It’s also highly...

5 Fundamental But Effective IoT Device Security Controls

As the pandemic continues to fuel the shift to remote work, numerous manufacturers have capitalized on this movement to create a multitude of handy internet of things IoT devices. While these devices may make our home and work lives more convenient, they greatly expand the attack surface for...

New QNAP NAS Flaws Exploited In Recent Ransomware Attacks - Patch It!

A new ransomware strain called "Qlocker" is targeting QNAP network attached storage NAS devices as part of an ongoing campaign and encrypting files in password-protected 7zip archives. First reports of the infections emerged on April 20, with the adversaries behind the operations demanding a...

REvil's Big Apple Ransomware Gambit Looks to Pay Off

The REvil ransomware gang is known for audacious attacks on the world’s biggest organizations, and its demands for astronomical ransoms to match. But the gang’s latest squeeze on Apple just hours before its splashy new product launch was a bold move, even for the notorious ransomware-as-a-service...

Apple’s Ransomware Mess Is the Future of Online Extortion

This week, hackers stole confidential schematics from a third-party supplier and demanded $50 million not to release them...

Ransomware by the numbers: Reassessing the threat’s global impact

Kaspersky has been following the ransomware landscape for years. In the past, weve published yearly reports on the subject: PC ransomware in 2014-2016, Ransomware in 2016-2017, and Ransomware and malicious crypto miners in 2016-2018. In fact, in 2019, we chose ransomware as the story of the year,...

This Week in Security News - April 23, 2021

XCSSET Quickly Adapts to Macs and Babuk Ransomware Gang Claims Decryptor Repaired...

Mount Locker Ransomware Aggressively Changes Up Tactics

The Mount Locker ransomware has shaken things up in recent campaigns with more sophisticated scripting and anti-prevention features, according to researchers. And, the change in tactics appears to coincide with a rebranding for the malware into “AstroLocker.” According to researchers, Mount Locke...