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A recent global research report conducted by Cybereason, titled Ransomware: The True Cost to Business, revealed that the vast majority of organizations that have suffered a ransomware attack have experienced significant impact to the business, inc… Continue reading CISO Roundtable: Ransomware Attacks and the True Cost to Business
Join Cybereason CSO Sam Curry for this webinar series where he revisits some of the cybersecurity highlights of the first half of 2021, from the SolarWinds supply chain attacks to DarkSide and other major ransomware operations.
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A ransomware group that targets billion-dollar companies — but that has stubbornly defied attribution consensus among cybersecurity researchers — has claimed at least seven victims since its discovery late last year. What’s more, it has taken additional steps in an apparent bid to baffle investigators who have tried to pin down who, exactly, the operators are, according to Accenture Security research released Tuesday. The update on the operators of the self-proclaimed Hades ransomware variant adds to its mystery as much as it subtracts from it. Accenture said it “is not yet able to confidently make attribution claims,” though other researchers have variously described Hades as a new group, suggested it is connected to a wel known Russian ransomware gang, or linked the Hades activity to a Chinese nation-state hacking outfit thought to be behind this year’s Microsoft Exchange Server attack. What Accenture says it knows is this: First, the Hades […]
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By Waqas
The original DarkSide ransomware gang had quit operating last month after the attack on Colonial Pipeline.
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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
Ransomware attacks have continued to make headlines, and for good reason: on average, there is a new ransomware attack every 11 seconds, and the losses to organizations from ransomware attacks is projected to reach $20 billion over the course of 2… Continue reading Report: Ransomware Attacks and the True Cost to Business
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman who’s alleged to have worked as a programmer for Trickbot, a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for infecting millions of computers and seeding many of those systems with ransomware.
Just how did a self-employed web site designer and mother of two come to work for one of the world’s most rapacious cybercriminal groups and then leave such an obvious trail of clues indicating her involvement with the gang? This post explores answers to those questions, as well as some of the ways Trickbot and other organized cybercrime gangs gradually recruit, groom and trust new programmers. Continue reading How Does One Get Hired by a Top Cybercrime Gang?
Lawmakers repeatedly challenged Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount on Wednesday about the steps it took to work with the government after a May ransomware attack, often suggesting the company fell short. A long string of House Homeland Security Committee members questioned Blount about his assertion that Colonial had not, as reported, refused voluntary Transportation Security Administration cybersecurity reviews. Instead, the company delayed them due to COVID-19 restrictions and a physical move to a new building, he said. “Delaying these assessments for so long amounts to declining them, sir,” said Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., citing communications that began in March of 2020. “It raises serious questions,” she said, while noting that her information says that Colonial turned down even a virtual assessment offers before the ransomware attack that led to fuel delivery slowdowns last month. Colonial has now scheduled a TSA review for late July, Blount said. Blount’s answers about government […]
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Investigators recovered $2.3 million in bitcoin paid by the Colonial Pipeline Company to DarkSide following a ransomware attack in early May. On June 7, the Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed that law enforcement agencies had been tracking trans… Continue reading DOJ Recovers $2.3M in Bitcoin Ransom Paid by Colonial Pipeline