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Six people alleged to be part of the notorious CLOP ransomware gang have been detained and charged by Ukrainian police, following nearly two dozen raids across the country. According to a statement released by the Ukraine’s cyber police, the hacking gr… Continue reading CLOP ransomware suspects charged by police in Ukraine
Authorities in Ukraine this week charged six people alleged to have been part of the CLOP ransomware group, a cybercriminal gang said to have extorted more than half a billion dollars from victims. Some of CLOP’s victims this year alone include Stanford University Medical School, the University of California, and University of Maryland. Continue reading Ukrainian Police Nab Six Tied to CLOP Ransomware
Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday they’ve taken action against a hacking outfit that was responsible for roughly half a billion dollars in digital extortion in recent years, in a rare example of law enforcement disrupting accused ransomware scammers. Six unnamed suspects are accused of infecting organizations in the U.S. and South Korea with the Clop ransomware. Investigators previously linked prior Clop activity to TA505, a financial hacking group, and a messy data breach at Accellion, in which hackers leveraged access to an IT vendor to threaten a number of its partners. Ukrainian authorities did not explicitly state they have arrested the accused hackers in a statement Wednesday. Police carried out 21 searches in the capital city of Kyiv, including the homes and cars of the defendants, to seize computer equipment and $5 million in Ukrainian hryvnia currency (roughly $184,000 in U.S. dollars). Whether police had targeted Clop developers or an affiliate […]
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Victims in South Korea and the USA, suspects busted in Ukraine. Continue reading Clop ransomware suspects busted in Ukraine, money and motors seized
Ransomware hacking groups are getting greedier. The average demand for a digital extortion payment shot up in the first quarter of this year to $220,298, up 43% from the previous quarter, according to a quarterly report from Coveware, a ransomware response firm. The median payment, too, jumped up 58% from from $49,450 to $78,398. The majority of ransomware attacks in the first quarter also involved theft of corporate data, a continuation of a trend of ransomware actors increasingly relying on exfiltration and extortion demands. Seventy-seven percent of ransomware attacks included the threat to publish stolen data in the first quarter of this year, which is up 10% compared to the last quarter of 2020, Coveware found. The report comes as the U.S. government is working to improve law enforcement actions targeting the infrastructure that supports ransomware gangs. In recognition that extortion demands are an increasingly popular approach, the U.S. Department of […]
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Cybercriminal extortionists have adopted a new tactic to to apply even more pressure on their corporate victims: contacting the victims’ customers, and asking them to demand a ransom is paid to protect their own privacy.
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Some of the top ransomware gangs are deploying a new pressure tactic to push more victim organizations into paying an extortion demand: Emailing the victim’s customers and partners directly, warning that their data will be leaked to the dark web unless they can convince the victim firm to pay up. Continue reading Ransom Gangs Emailing Victim Customers for Leverage
Things don’t get much worse than having to admit to your employees that a gang of cybercriminals have broken into your infrastructure, stolen the private details (social security numbers, names and home addresses) of your staff, and are demanding that … Continue reading Bank loses customers’ social security numbers after ransomware attack
By Waqas
Qualys has confirmed that the Clop ransomware gang is behind the cyber attack that exploited Accellion exploit.
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By Deeba Ahmed
A group of cybercriminals known for Clop ransomware operations leaked data stolen from the US-based law firm Jones Day on the Dark Web.
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