Items tagged with Ransomware
The developer of Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore, Gellyberry Studios, has been hit by a ransomware attack, leading to the loss of 17,000 player accounts, the studio announced on their Discord server. The game is described as “a hardcore old-school MMORPG for players not afraid of challenge, risk, and adventure. Band together...
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Ransomware gang BlackCat, otherwise known as ALPHV, is after the public spotlight following the Reddit data breach debacle earlier this year. Now, the group has breached another organization with MeridianLink and is causing a stir by filing a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to try and spur...
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The Lockbit ransomware group has breached a number of high-profile organizations and companies, such as TSMC in Taiwan, which is effectively the global leader in silicon production. Most recently, though, the international aeronautic and telecommunications company Boeing seemingly fell victim to the group, and...
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Caesars Entertainment Inc. has paid off a $15 million ransom held by a hacker group to prevent sensitive client data from being sold on the dark web. The casino group was hacked a few weeks ago and is seemingly working hard to mitigate the problem.
In an SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) filing, Caesar...
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Microsoft’s traditional Patch Tuesday has arrived, bringing with it a slew of security fixes for 130 vulnerabilities and two published advisories. This update comes at the perfect time, as threat actors have been exploiting some of these vulnerabilities for espionage against defense and government organizations in...
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Just under five years ago, chip manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, otherwise known as TSMC, was hit by the WannaCry ransomware, thereby crippling production and shutting down plants. Now, the company has purportedly had its data stolen in a new attack thanks to an affiliate of the ransomware gang...
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With threat actor groups like Blackcat (ALPHV) taking the spotlight, other groups can fly under the radar doing their dastardly deeds. Such is the case with 8Base, a relatively unheard-of ransomware gang that is making waves as one of the most active ransomware groups this summer.
First cropping up in March of...
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With Reddit somewhat imploding on the cusp of going public, some are taking advantage of the situation. Ransomware gang BlackCat (ALPHV) has recently claimed a February attack against Reddit, claiming to have stolen 80GB of data from the social media company.
In early February of this year, hackers from the...
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A ransomware group has claimed responsibility for breaching MCNA (Managed Care of North America) Dental data samples and obtaining pertinent information of nearly nine million of its patients. If you know of anyone with MCNA accounts, you may want to pass this information along.
MCNA Dental, one of the largest...
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The Justice Department has issued a warrant for a hacker accused of participating in conspiracies to deploy three ransomware variants, and anyone who helps nab him could get a reward of up to $10 million. The alleged ransomware attacks were against law enforcement agencies in Washington D.C., New Jersey, and others...
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A new piece of Windows malware is making the rounds, but what else is new? You never want to fall victim to a malware campaign, but this one is particularly troublesome. EvilExtractor is billed as an "all-in-one" solution for your online criminal needs. With this one tool, a threat actor can monitor keystrokes, steal...
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A newly formed ransomware gang is attempting to extort a sizable payment from MSI after claiming to have stolen a treasure trove of data, including sensitive source code. The gang, which goes by the name "Money Message," is giving MSI five days to pay a hefty $4 million ransom. If payment is not received by then, the...
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Mortal Kombat has a reputation for being brutal, but rather than exacting excessive violence on video game characters, unknown threat actors are brazenly brutalizing their victims’ finances in a Mortal Kombat-themed ransomware campaign. Aside from ransomware, this campaign also makes use of the Laplas Clipper malware...
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Last November, two weeks after the Biden administration held the second International Counter Ransomware Summit, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a joint cybersecurity advisory warning...
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This past July, we wrote about a report published by Coverware that found that the dollar value of the median ransomware payment was on a downward trajectory beginning in Q1 2022 and continuing in Q2 of the same year. However, we weren’t sure whether this decrease in the value of individual payments would reflect in...
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It's not often that malicious actors in the malware and virus space apologize, but that is exactly what happened on New Year's Eve after a ransomware attack targeted a children's hospital system in Canada.
The LockBit ransomware gang found out recently that one of its affiliates breached the rules of the...
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This week, Lake Charles Memorial Health System (LCMHS) in Louisiana published a notice informing its patients of a cybersecurity incident that occurred back in October of this year. According to the notice, threat actors gained unauthorized access to the healthcare system’s internal network between October 20 and 21...
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This week, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3), which is part of the US Department of Health and Human Service (HHS), issued a report warning the healthcare industry about the threat posed by a new ransomware group that operates under the name “Royal.” This report comes a little over a month after the Biden administration
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Researchers at the cybersecurity company Cyble have published a technical analysis of a new ransomware known as “AXLocker.” Aside from the regular data encryption performed by ransomware, AXLocker also searches victims’ systems for Discord login tokens, then hands these tokens over to the threat actor behind the...
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Two weeks ago, the Biden administration convened the second International Counter Ransomware Summit, warning that ransomware attacks are outpacing efforts to mitigate them. Now, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Health and...
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Today and tomorrow, the White House is convening the second International Counter Ransomware Summit with representatives from over thirty countries and fifteen cybersecurity companies in attendance. This event comes after last year’s first ever summit of the same name, which was held virtually. Leading up to this...
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On September 5, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the second largest school district in the United States, published a news release disclosing a ransomware attack on its internal systems. While LAUSD is far from the only school to have been hit by ransomware this year, the size of the school district has...
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