New REvil Samples Indicate Ransomware Gang is Back After Months of Inactivity

The notorious ransomware operation known as REvil aka Sodin or Sodinokibi has resumed after six months of inactivity, an analysis of new ransomware samples has revealed. "Analysis of these samples indicates that the developer has access to REvil's source code, reinforcing the likelihood that the...

Ransomware-as-a-service: Understanding the cybercrime gig economy and how to protect yourself

Microsoft processes 24 trillion signals every 24 hours, and we have blocked billions of attacks in the last year alone. Microsoft Security tracks more than 35 unique ransomware families and 250 unique threat actors across observed nation-state, ransomware, and criminal activities. That depth of...

Ransomware-as-a-service: Understanding the cybercrime gig economy and how to protect yourself

Microsoft processes 24 trillion signals every 24 hours, and we have blocked billions of attacks in the last year alone. Microsoft Security tracks more than 35 unique ransomware families and 250 unique threat actors across observed nation-state, ransomware, and criminal activities. That depth of...

U.S. Offering $10 Million Reward for Information on Conti Ransomware Hackers

The U.S. State Department has announced rewards of up to $10 million for any information leading to the identification of key individuals who are part of the infamous Conti cybercrime gang. Additionally, it's offering another $5 million for intelligence information that could help arrest or convi...

Ransomware: April 2022 review

The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team monitors the threat landscape continuously and produces monthly ransomware reports based on a mixture of proprietary and open-source intelligence. April 2022 was most notable for the emergence of three new ransomware-as-a-service RaaS groups—Onyx, Mindwar...

Experts Analyze Conti and Hive Ransomware Gangs' Chats With Their Victims

An analysis of four months of chat logs spanning more than 40 conversations between the operators of Conti and Hive ransomware and their victims has offered an insight into the groups' inner workings and their negotiation techniques. In one exchange, the Conti Team is said to have significantly...

Hackers fool major tech companies into handing over data of women and minors to abuse

Some major tech companies have unwittingly opened harassment and exploitation opportunities to the women and children who they have pledged to protect. This happened because they provided information in response to emergency data requests from legitimate law enforcement accounts that hackers had...

T-Mobile Admits Lapsus$ Hackers Gained Access to its Internal Tools and Source Code

Telecom company T-Mobile on Friday confirmed that it was the victim of a security breach in March after the LAPSUS$ mercenary gang managed to gain access to its networks. The acknowledgment came after investigative journalist Brian Krebs shared internal chats belonging to the core members of the...

Researchers Share In-Depth Analysis of PYSA Ransomware Group

An 18-month-long analysis of the PYSA ransomware operation has revealed that the cybercrime cartel followed a five-stage software development cycle from August 2020, with the malware authors prioritizing features to improve the efficiency of its workflows. This included a user-friendly tool like ...

Karakurt Ensnares Conti, Diavol Ransomware Groups in Its Web

Researchers have found financial and technological links between the Karakurt cybercriminal group and two high-profile ransomware actors that signal a shift in business operations and an expansion of opportunities for the threat actors to target victims, they said. Karakurt—a financially motivate...

Researchers Connect BlackCat Ransomware with Past BlackMatter Malware Activity

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered further links between BlackCat aka ALPHV and BlackMatter ransomware families, the former of which emerged as a replacement following international scrutiny last year. "At least some members of the new BlackCat group have links to the BlackMatter group,...

Lack of Limit on amount Allows Borrowers To Be Extorted For Interest Payments

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact There is on limit on the upper bounds on the amount a lender may send to a borrower. Borrowers will then be forced to pay interest and facilitators fee on the full amount loaned. The impact for a borrower is that they may be forced to repay significantly...

British Police Charge Two Teenagers Linked to LAPSUS$ Hacker Group

The City of London Police on Friday disclosed that it has charged two of the seven teenagers, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old, who were arrested last week for their alleged connections to the LAPSUS$ data extortion gang. "Both teenagers have been charged with: three counts of unauthorized access ...

Fake Emergency Search Warrants Draw Scrutiny from Capitol Hill

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of the U.S. Senates most tech-savvy lawmakers said he was trouble...

Lapsus$ ‘Back from Vacation’

The Lapsus$ data extortionists are back from a week-long “vacation,” they announced on Telegram, posting 70GB worth of data purportedly stolen from software development giant Globant. “We are officially back from a vacation,” the gang wrote on their Telegram channel, posting images of exfiltrated...

IT Firm Globant Confirms Breach after LAPSUS$ Leaks 70GB of Data

The LAPSUS$ data extortion gang announced their return on Telegram after a week-long "vacation," leaking what they claim is data from software services company Globant. "We are officially back from a vacation," the group wrote on their Telegram channel – which has nearly around 54,000 members as ...

New Report on Okta Hack Reveals the Entire Episode LAPSUS$ Attack

An independent security researcher has shared what's a detailed timeline of events that transpired as the notorious LAPSUS$ extortion gang broke into a third-party provider linked to the cyber incident at Okta in late January 2022. In a set of screenshots posted on Twitter, Bill Demirkapi publish...

7 Suspected Members of LAPSUS$ Hacker Gang, Aged 16 to 21, Arrested in U.K.

The City of London Police has arrested seven teenagers between the ages of 16 and 21 for their alleged connections to the prolific LAPSUS$ extortion gang that's linked to a recent burst of attacks targeting NVIDIA, Samsung, Ubisoft, LG, Microsoft, and Okta. "The City of London Police has been...

LAPSUS$ – New extortion group involved in the breach against Nvidia, Microsoft, Okta and Samsung

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Lapsus$ DEV-0537 is an extortion threat group that first appeared on December 10, 2021, and has since breached the Brazilian Ministry of Health, NVIDIA, Samsung, Vodafone, Ubisoft, Octa, and Microsoft. Unlike other extortionis...

UK-Based Teen Suspected of Operating LAPSUS$ Data Extortion Group

By Deeba Ahmed Experts claim the notorious data extortion group LAPSUS$ could be the brainchild of a teenager in the United… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: UK-Based Teen Suspected of Operating LAPSUS$ Data Extortion Group...