HelloKitty is launching a DDoS attack by exploiting known vulnerabilities

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. The FBI has issued a warning to private businesses about a new feature of the HelloKitty ransomware group aka FiveHands. The Hello Kitty/FiveHands actor UNC2447 employs the double extortion strategy to place undue pressure on...

Pirate Sports Streamer Gets Busted, Pivots to MLB Extortion

Demanding payment in exchange for not publicly disclosing a vulnerability isn’t the same as a bug bounty program; it’s extortion. A 30-year-old alleged sports content pirate in Minneapolis, Minn., has found himself on the receiving end of a criminal complaint alleging that he not only stole user...

Cracking the code in the boardroom

Former FBI Special Agent, Scott Augenbaum talks about how CISOs can successfully communicate with the board to implement more preventative protection...

Cracking the code in the boardroom

Former FBI Special Agent, Scott Augenbaum talks about how CISOs can successfully communicate with the board to implement more preventative protection...

Threat profile: Ranzy Locker ransomware

Ranzy Locker ransomware emerged in late 2020, when the variant began to target victims in the United States. According to a flash alert issued by the FBI, unknown cyber criminals using Ranzy Locker ransomware had compromised more than 30 US businesses as of July 2021, including victims in the...

How the FBI Gets Location Information

Vice has a detailed article about how the FBI gets data from cell phone providers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, based on a leaked I think 2019 139-page presentation...

FBI Releases Indicators of Compromise Associated with Ranzy Locker Ransomware

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released a Flash report detailing indicators of compromise IOCs associated with attacks using Ranzy Locker, a ransomware variant first identified targeting victims in the United States in late 2020. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the...

FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant PAX Technology

U.S. federal investigators today raided the Florida offices of PAX Technology, a Chinese provider of point-of-sale devices used by millions of businesses and retailers globally. KrebsOnSecurity has learned the raid is tied to reports that PAXs systems may have been involved in cyberattacks on U.S...

Google Crushes YouTube Cookie-Stealing Channel Hijackers

Google has caught and brushed off a bunch of cookie-stealing YouTube channel hijackers who were running cryptocurrency scams on the ripped-off channels. In a Wednesday post, Ashley Shen, with Google’s Threat Analysis Group TAG, said that TAG attributes the assaults to a group of attackers recruit...

Protect yourself from BlackMatter ransomware: Advice issued

Despite promises made by the BlackMatter ransomware gang about which organizations and business types they would avoid, multiple US critical infrastructure entities have been targeted. Now, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, in conjunction with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

Podcast: Could the Zoho Flaw Trigger SolarWinds 2.0?

A month ago, the FBI, CISA and the U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command CGCYBER warned that state-backed advanced persistent threat APT actors are likely among those who’d been actively exploiting a critical flaw in a Zoho-owned single sign-on and password management tool since early August. At issue w...

A week in security (Oct 11 – Oct 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs Google warns some users that FancyBear’s been prowling around Inside Apple: How macOS attacks are evolving The joy of phishing your employees ExpressVPN made a choice, and so did I: Lock and Code S02E19 Update now! Apple patches another privilege escalation bug in i...

BlackMatter Ransomware

Summary Actions You Can Take Now to Protect Against BlackMatter Ransomware • Implement and enforce backup and restoration policies and procedures. • Usestrong, unique passwords. • Usemulti-factor authentication. • Implement network segmentation and traversal monitoring. Note: this advisory uses t...

REvil Ransomware Gang Goes Underground After Tor Sites Were Compromised

REvil, the notorious ransomware gang behind a string of cyberattacks in recent years, appears to have gone off the radar once again, a little over a month after the cybercrime group staged a surprise return following a two-month-long hiatus. The development, first spotted by Recorded Future's...

Couple sold nuclear warship data hidden in peanut butter sandwich

By Deeba Ahmed The couple used a bubble gum package and peanut butter sandwich to hide SD card with sensitive data and sell it to undercover FBI agents. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Couple sold nuclear warship data hidden in peanut butter sandwich...

The Rise of Ransomware

With most employees still working from remote locations, ransomware attacks have increased steadily since the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report 2400+ ransomware-related incidents in 2020 resulted in a loss of about 29 million dollars. These...

Ransomware Hackers Who Attacked Over 100 Companies Arrested in Ukraine

Law enforcement agencies have announced the arrest of two "prolific ransomware operators" in Ukraine who allegedly conducted a string of targeted attacks against large industrial entities in Europe and North America since at least April 2020, marking the latest step in combating ransomware...

Police take a piece out of a ransomware gang, but won’t say which one

One of the worlds ransomware groups appears to be a couple of members short today—and about two million dollars less rich—but nobody is sure which one. Police are staying tight-lipped about whos short-handed following the arrest of two individuals in Kyiv, Ukraine. The arrests are part of a joint...

Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the worlds most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, one of Russias largest financial institutions. Those...

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...