Grand Theft Auto III/Vice City Skin File v1.1 - Buffer Overflow

Exploit Title: Grand Theft Auto III/Vice City Skin File v1.1 - Buffer Overflow Exploit Date: 22.01.2023 Discovered and Written by: Knursoft Vendor Homepage: https://www.rockstargames.com/ Version: v1.1 Tested on: Windows XP SP2/SP3, 7, 10 21H2 CVE : N/A 1 - Run this python script to generate...

Normalizing Women in Tech with Intentionality

Vice President Simone Stewart kicks off our Akamai “Women In Tech” blog series and discusses how intentionality can cultivate a more inclusive environment...

SUSE CVE-2004-0453

Format string vulnerability in the monitor "memory dump" command in VICE 1.6 to 1.14 allows local users to cause a denial of service emulator crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in an output string...

SUSE CVE-2016-9772

OpenAFS 1.6.19 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive directory information via vectors involving the 1 client cache partition, 2 fileserver vice partition, or 3 certain RPC responses...

Ransomware review: February 2023

This article is based on research by Marcelo Rivero, Malwarebytes' ransomware specialist, who builds a monthly picture of ransomware activity by monitoring the information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web leak sites. This information represents victims who were successfully attacke...

A week in security (January 23—29)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: T-Mobile reports data theft of 37 million customers in the US Ransomware revenue significantly down over 2022 Microsoft to end direct sale of Windows 10 licenses at the end of January TikTok CEO told to "step up efforts to comply" with digital laws 4 ways to protec...

5 facts about Vice Society, the ransomware group wreaking havoc on the education sector

Move over Lockbit, there's a new ransomware-as-a-service RaaS player in town attacking the education sector--and its name is Vice Society. Vice Society is believed to be a Russian-based intrusion, exfiltration, and extortion group. And their ideal prey? You guessed it: universities, colleges, and...

Brazil’s manufacturing industry under attack by Vice Society ransomware group

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The Vice Society ransomware group is a cyber threat group that made headlines in late 2022 and early 2023 for a series of attacks against various targets, including the rapid transit system in San...

Vice Society Ransomware Group Targets Manufacturing Companies

In this blog entry, we’d like to highlight our findings on Vice Society, which includes an end-to-end infection diagram that we were able to create using Trend Micro internal telemetry...

Vice Society gang switches to new custom ransomware

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Vice Society is a well-established ransomware group that has successfully targeted a range of enterprises. They aim to maximize their financial gain by using the standard double extortion strategy. In...

Vice Society Ransomware Attackers Adopt Robust Encryption Methods

The Vice Society ransomware actors have switched to yet another custom ransomware payload in their recent attacks aimed at a variety of sectors. "This ransomware variant, dubbed 'PolyVice,' implements a robust encryption scheme, using NTRUEncrypt and ChaCha20-Poly1305 algorithms," SentinelOne...

Vice Society Ransomware Attackers Targeted Dozens of Schools in 2022

The Vice Society cybercrime group has disproportionately targeted educational institutions, accounting for 33 victims in 2022 and surpassing other ransomware families like LockBit, BlackCat, BianLian, and Hive. Other prominent industry verticals targeted include healthcare, governments,...

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...

DEV-0832 (Vice Society) opportunistic ransomware campaigns impacting US education sector

In recent months, Microsoft has detected active ransomware and extortion campaigns impacting the global education sector, particularly in the US, by a threat actor we track as DEV-0832, also known as Vice Society. Shifting ransomware payloads over time from BlackCat, QuantumLocker, and Zeppelin,...

DEV-0832 (Vice Society) opportunistic ransomware campaigns impacting US education sector

In recent months, Microsoft has detected active ransomware and extortion campaigns impacting the global education sector, particularly in the US, by a threat actor we track as DEV-0832, also known as Vice Society. Shifting ransomware payloads over time from BlackCat, QuantumLocker, and Zeppelin,...

Quarterly Report: Incident Response Trends in Q3 2022

Ransomware and pre-ransomware engagements make up 40 percent of threats seen this quarter For the first time since compiling these reports, Cisco Talos Incident Response saw an equal number of ransomware and pre-ransomware engagements, making up nearly 40 percent of threats this quarter. It can b...

Why Ransomware in Education on the Rise and What That Means for 2023

The breach of LA Unified School District LAUSD highlights the prevalence of password vulnerabilities, as criminal hackers continue to use breached credentials in increasingly frequent ransomware attacks on education. The Labor Day weekend breach of LAUSD brought significant districtwide disruptio...

How Vice Society Got Away With a Global Ransomware Spree

Vice Society has a superpower that’s allowed it to quietly carry out attacks on schools and hospitals around the world: mediocrity...

A week in security (September 5 – 11)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Phishers use verified status as bait for Instagram users Microsoft will disable Basic authentication for Exchange Online in less than a month Zero-day puts a dent in Chrome's mojo Update now! QNAP warns users DeadBolt is exploiting Photo Station vulnerability Don't...

#StopRansomware: Vice Society

Summary Actions to take today to mitigate cyber threats from ransomware: • Prioritize and remediate known exploited vulnerabilities. • Train users to recognize and report phishing attempts. • Enable and enforce multifactor authentication. Note: This joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA is part of an...