Collaborate Disseminate
Perhaps they want to avoid provoking the white-hot rage of an already wounded public. Or maybe they’ve realized their victims can’t pay. Or, just possibly, some black hats do have a smidgen of ethics. At least in grim times like these. The … Continue reading One Hacking Group Promises to Stop Attacking Medical Units Until COVID-19 Cools Down
Ransomware operators are giving their sketchy repertoire an overhaul. These attacks used to be about unauthorized data encryption and now they are adding data theft to the mix. As a result, not only do the criminals hold the victims’ files for ransom,… Continue reading New Treacherous Tricks of Ransomware Authors
Roughly a month after the FBI advised U.S. companies to protect themselves against a pernicious strain of ransomware, hackers have continued to attack victims and threaten to publicize their private information. A hacking group deploying Maze ransomware has used a network of websites to publicly identify organizations it claimed to hack, and which of them refused to pay a ransom. In one recent note, the group said it would release confidential data if three small law firms based in South Dakota didn’t meet their demands. While it remains unclear if the Maze group has made any information public in this case, this incident only is the latest example of scammers promising to publish data, rather than leaving it encrypted or deleting it outright. A French government cybersecurity agency on Wednesday published a Maze alert suggesting TA-2101, a hacker group which previously targeted German government agencies and U.S. tax professionals, was […]
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Continue reading Maze ransomware spree continues amid advisories from French, FBI officials
Linux scripters usually know about sed — the stream editor. It has a simple job: transform text as it whizzes from input to output. So if you wanted to solve a maze, this wouldn’t be the tool you’d think to use, right? Well, if you were [xsot], you’d disagree.
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US cable and wire manufacturer, Southwire, last week filed a civil suit against Maze’s mysterious makers in Georgia Federal court. Continue reading ‘Maze’ ransomware threatens data exposure unless $6m ransom paid
In November, cyber crooks told services company Allied Universal that they would make its files public if the company didn’t pay a ransom. Allied refused and the hackers stuck to their threat, releasing a portion of the data onto the open interne… Continue reading 2020 Prediction: Ransomware to become more dangerous than ever
Maze exfiltrates data as well as locks down systems. Officials said they don’t know yet whether any residents’ personal information has been breached. Continue reading Maze Ransomware Behind Pensacola Attack, Data Breach Looms
Cybercrime has never been one to hem in tactics with ideology or rules. Rather, malware operators are known to use what works and then modify code to continue to work. By “work,” we mean that the code does what it is supposed to; for information steal… Continue reading Maze Ransomware Exploiting Exploit Kits
We can tell that [Jon Howell] is our kind of guy. After updating his vintage 1985 Hewlett-Packard plotter with WiFi and the ability to load SVG files, he obviously needed to find a bunch of stuff to run off with it. Gotta justify those hacks somehow. So he doubled down and decided support a hack with another hack by writing a maze generator to keep his plotter well fed. He was kind enough to unleash his creation on an unsuspecting Internet as an open source project, and now we all can benefit from a couple of reams worth of mazes. …read more
Continue reading Maze Generator Keeps Plotter (and Kids) Busy
We really like it when a reader is inspired by something they see on Hackaday, build on it, and let us know so we can pass it on. In this case, [Vegipete] made a secret maze game using a minimal number of parts and some neat software trickery.
It’s built around an 8-pin PIC16F18313 microcontroller, uses a joystick for input, and nine WS2812 LEDs to display the player and the surrounding maze walls. His inspiration was [David Johnson-Davies’] minimalist secret maze game built around the 8-pin ATTiny85. In that one, [David] cleverly used charlieplexing to get four pins to control …read more