BlackMagic Ransomware disrupts the Israeli logistics sector

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The latest ransomware entity, known as "BlackMagic" has emerged. This gang targets its victims using a double extortion approach in which it initially exfiltrates the victims data, followed by encryption...

CISA and the FBI issue alert about Cuba ransomware

In the latest StopRansomware effort of publicizing ransomware information for network defenders, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have issued a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA on the ransomware known as "Cuba." Though named...

Cuba Ransomware Extorted Over $60 Million in Ransom Fees from More than 100 Entities

The threat actors behind Cuba aka COLDDRAW ransomware have received more than $60 million in ransom payments and compromised over 100 entities across the world as of August 2022. In a new advisory shared by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of...

Stopping C2 communications in human-operated ransomware through network protection

Command-and-control C2 servers are an essential part of ransomware, commodity, and nation-state attacks. They are used to control infected devices and perform malicious activities like downloading and launching payloads, controlling botnets, or commanding post-exploitation penetration frameworks ...

Stopping C2 communications in human-operated ransomware through network protection

Command-and-control C2 servers are an essential part of ransomware, commodity, and nation-state attacks. They are used to control infected devices and perform malicious activities like downloading and launching payloads, controlling botnets, or commanding post-exploitation penetration frameworks ...

LV Ransomware Exploited ProxyShell to target Jordan

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary LV ransomware as a service has been active since late 2020 The most recent infiltration entailed the compromise of the corporate environment of a Jordan based entity, leveraging the double extortion...

Vice Society Hackers Are Behind Several Ransomware Attacks Against Education Sector

A cybercrime group known as Vice Society has been linked to multiple ransomware strains in its malicious campaigns aimed at the education, government, and retail sectors. The Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence team, which is tracking the threat cluster under the moniker DEV-0832, said the gro...

Hive Ransomware Hackers Begin Leaking Data Stolen from Tata Power Energy Company

The Hive ransomware-as-a-service RaaS group has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack against Tata Power that was disclosed by the company less than two weeks ago. The incident is said to have occurred on October 3, 2022. The threat actor has also been observed leaking stolen data exfiltrated...

CISA Warns of Daixin Team Hackers Targeting Health Organizations With Ransomware

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have published a joint advisory warning of attacks perpetrated by a cybercrime gang known as the Daixin Team primarily targeting the healthcare sector in the country. "The Daixin Team is a ransomware and data extortion group that has targeted the HPH...

Ransomware-affected school district refuses to pay, gets stolen data released

Data stolen from Los Angeles Unified School District has been leaked online, after staff refused to pay the ransom related to a ransomware attack. The attackers threatened to release the data if the ransom wasn't paid, and so release it they did. The double extortion tactic Threatening to release...

Lorenz Ransomware Exploit Mitel VoIP Systems to Breach Business Networks

The operators behind the Lornenz ransomware operation have been observed exploiting a now-patched critical security flaw in Mitel MiVoice Connect to obtain a foothold into target environments for follow-on malicious activities. "Initial malicious activity originated from a Mitel appliance sitting...

#StopRansomware: Vice Society

Note: This joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA is part of an ongoing StopRansomware effort to publish advisories for network defenders that detail various ransomware variants and ransomware threat actors. These StopRansomware advisories include recently and historically observed tactics, techniques,...

Chile government’s Windows and Linux servers hit by RedAlert ransomware

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The Chilean Ministry of Interior asserted that RedAlert ransomware aka N13V attack had disrupted the operations and online services of a government agency in the country. In classic double-extortion...

Moisha Ransomware spotted launching highly targeted attacks

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Moisha ransomware based on .Net was first mentioned in mid-August, along with the PTMOISHA team, the threat actor behind it. This ransomware was developed to carry out very targeted attacks, as indicated...

CISA and FBI issue alert about Zeppelin ransomware

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA about Zeppelin ransomware. The advisory contains indicators of compromise IOCs and tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs associated with...

Feds: Zeppelin Ransomware Resurfaces with New Compromise, Encryption Tactics

Zeppelin ransomware is back and employing new compromise and encryption tactics in its recent campaigns against various vertical industries—particularly healthcare—as well as critical infrastructure organizations, the feds are warning. Threat actors deploying the ransomware as a service RaaS are...

Hackers Behind Cuba Ransomware Attacks Using New RAT Malware

Threat actors associated with the Cuba ransomware have been linked to previously undocumented tactics, techniques and procedures TTPs, including a new remote access trojan called ROMCOM RAT on compromised systems. The new findings come from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 threat intelligence team,...

Industrial Spy trades stolen data on dark web Marketplace

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Since March 2022, Industrial Spy ransomware, a new menace in the threat environment, has been stealing and selling data on the dark web marketplace and conducting double extortion attacks, combining data theft...

To Maze and Beyond: How the Ransomware Double Extortion Space Has Evolved

We're here with the final installment in our Pain Points: Ransomware Data Disclosure Trends report blog series, and today we're looking at a unique aspect of the report that clarifies not just what ransomware actors choose to disclose, but who discloses what, and how the ransomware landscape has...

Emerging H0lyGh0st Ransomware Tied to North Korea

Microsoft researchers have linked an emerging ransomware threat that already has compromised a number of small-to-mid-sized businesses to financially motivated North Korean state-sponsored actors that have been active since last year. The group has successfully compromised small-to-mid-sized...