This Week in Security News - September 24, 1021

Water Basilik Uses New HCrypt Variant to Flood Victims With RAT Payloads & Biden Administration Issues Sanctions To Counter Ransomware...

FBI Had the REvil Decryption Key

The Washington Post reports that the FBI had a decryption key for the REvil ransomware, but didnt pass it along to victims because it would have disrupted an ongoing operation. The key was obtained through access to the servers of the Russia-based criminal gang behind the July attack. Deploying i...

Romance, BEC Scams Lands Soldier in Jail for 46 Months

A former Army reservist was just sentenced to 46 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $2 million in penalties and restitution, after pleading guilty to scamming dozens of people online, including the elderly and a veteran’s organization for Marines. Joseph Iorhemba Asan Jr. along with his...

Sextortion on the rise, warns FBI

The pandemic saw a surge in sextortion cases in 2020. Fast forward 12 months, and the numbers continue to rise significantly. This revelation came from the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3. Until 31 July 2021, it had received over 16,000 sextortion complaints, with victims losing a combine...

Smurf DDoS attack:❗️ How it works and how to mitigate

Attacks geared at denying users access to servers are executed in different ways. One notable approach — similar in many forms of service denials — is the use of volume. The sheer volume of requests is employed by attackers to render a particular network useless. A good representation of that is...

CVE-2021-22098

UAA server versions prior to 75.4.0 are vulnerable to an open redirect vulnerability. A malicious user can exploit the open redirect vulnerability by social engineering leading to take over of victims’ accounts in certain cases along with redirection of UAA users to a malicious sites...

OpenStack 输入验证错误漏洞

OpenStack is a cloud platform management program developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA in collaboration with Rackspace in the United States. Openstack Nova suffers from an input validation error vulnerability that allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability ...

AvosLocker enters the ransomware scene, asks for partners

This blog post was authored by Hasherezade In mid-July we responded to an incident that involved an attack on a Microsoft Exchange server. The threat actor used this entry point to get into a Domain Controller and then leveraged it as a springboard to deploy ransomware. While examining the...

Busted! Fraud-as-a-Service gang that sold 2FA-proof phishing arrested

The Dutch police announced that they arrested two Dutch citizens, aged 24 and 15, for developing and selling phishing panels. The police also searched the house of another suspect, an 18 year old who was not arrested. The people behind this illegal business called themselves the Fraud Family and...

The Kaseya Ransomware Nightmare Is Almost Over

A decryption tool has emerged, meaning any victims whose systems remain locked up can soon breathe easy...

ID theft ghouls targeting Surfside victims is appalling, but no surprise

We’ve written at length about account compromise and identity theft, and how criminals will often hijack accounts belonging to dead people. In many ways, it’s the perfect crime for anyone indulging in social engineering. The amount of abandoned accounts due to death can only ever go up, and nobod...

Ruthless Attackers Target Florida Condo Collapse Victims

Families mourning the loss of loved ones to the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Fla. are now being urged to check the credit of their deceased relatives thanks to a group of heartless hackers targeting victims in a new identity-theft scheme. Apparently,...

REvil is Off-Line

This is an interesting development: Just days after President Biden demanded that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia shut down ransomware groups attacking American targets, the most aggressive of the groups suddenly went off-line early Tuesday. … Gone was the publicly available "happy blog" th...

Facebook Catches Iranian Spies Catfishing US Military Targets

The hackers posed as recruiters, journalists, and hospitality workers to lure their victims...

Protecting customers from a private-sector offensive actor using 0-day exploits and DevilsTongue malware

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC alongside the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC has uncovered a private-sector offensive actor, or PSOA, that we are calling SOURGUM in possession of now-patched, Windows 0-day exploits CVE-2021-31979 and CVE-2021-33771. Private-sector offensiv...

Cloud Cryptomining Swindle in Google Play Rakes in Cash

Bogus cryptomining apps for Android available for download on Google Play are estimated to have scammed more than 93,400 victims to date, researchers said, stealing at least $350,000. According to Lookout, the apps – categorized into “BitScam” and “CloudScam” versions – advertise themselves as...

Colombia arrests suspect wanted by US over Gozi virus

By Waqas The countries targeted by the Gozi virus included Finland, Germany, United States, and the United Kingdom with victims like NASA. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Colombia arrests suspect wanted by US over Gozi virus...

Are Tax Breaks Encouraging Ransom Payments?

Why tax deductions for ransom payments send the wrong signals to threat actors and their victims...

Another one bites the dust: Avaddon ransomware group shuts down operation

Are you seeing some pattern here? In what could be a called "shocking news" on Friday, BleepingComputer revealed that the gang behind the Avaddon ransomware shut down its operations after releasing more than 2,000 decryption keys to the technology news site. BleepingComputer claimed they received...

RSA Archer 跨站脚本漏洞

RSA Archer is an enterprise IT governance and compliance governance product from RSA UK, including policy, risk and compliance definition and management. It is able to aggregate all of our enterprise assets, as well as some of the monitored information, and organize it into a unified platform,...