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BlackCat Ransomware Group Implodes After Apparent $22M Payment by Change Healthcare

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There are indications that U.S. healthcare giant Change Healthcare has made a $22 million extortion payment to the infamous BlackCat ransomware group (a.k.a. “ALPHV”) as the company struggles to bring services back online amid a cyberattack that has disrupted prescription drug services nationwide for weeks. However, the cybercriminal who claims to have given BlackCat access to Change’s network says the crime gang cheated them out of their share of the ransom, and that they still have the sensitive data that Change reportedly paid the group to destroy. Meanwhile, the affiliate’s disclosure appears to have prompted BlackCat to cease operations entirely.  Continue reading BlackCat Ransomware Group Implodes After Apparent $22M Payment by Change Healthcare→

Russian Hacker “Wazawaka” Indicted for Ransomware

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A Russian man identified by KrebsOnSecurity in January 2022 as a prolific and vocal member of several top ransomware groups was the subject of two indictments unsealed by the Justice Department today. U.S. prosecutors say Mikhail Pavolovich Matveev, a.k.a. “Wazawaka” and “Boriselcin” worked with three different ransomware gangs that extorted hundreds of millions of dollars from companies, schools, hospitals and government agencies. Continue reading Russian Hacker “Wazawaka” Indicted for Ransomware→

Wazawaka Goes Waka Waka

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In January, KrebsOnSecurity examined clues left behind by “Wazawaka,” the hacker handle chosen by a major ransomware criminal in the Russian-speaking cybercrime scene. Wazawaka has since “lost his mind” according to his erstwhile colleagues, creating a Twitter account to drop exploit code for a widely-used virtual private networking (VPN) appliance, and publishing bizarre selfie videos taunting security researchers and journalists.

In last month’s story, we explored clues that led from Wazawaka’s multitude of monikers, email addresses, and passwords to a 30-something father in Abakan, Russia named Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev. This post concerns itself with the other half of Wazawaka’s identities not mentioned in the first story, such as how Wazawaka also ran the Babuk ransomware affiliate program, and later became “Orange,” the founder of the ransomware-focused Dark Web forum known as “RAMP.” Continue reading Wazawaka Goes Waka Waka→

Who Wrote the ALPHV/BlackCat Ransomware Strain?

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In December 2021, researchers discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service named ALPHV (a.k.a. “BlackCat”), considered to be the first professional cybercrime group to create and use a ransomware strain in the Rust programming language. In this post, we’ll explore some of the clues left behind by the developer who was reputedly hired to code the ransomware variant. Continue reading Who Wrote the ALPHV/BlackCat Ransomware Strain?→

Hackers dump login credentials of Fortinet VPN users in plain-text

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By Waqas
Fortinet VPN users are urged to reset their passwords as the company has acknowledged the data to be legitimate.
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Ramp and Brex draw diverging market plans with M&A strategies

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From a high level, all of the recent deal-making in corporate cards and spend management shows that it’s not enough to just help companies track what employees are expensing these days. Continue reading Ramp and Brex draw diverging market plans with M&A strategies→

Ramp eCDN integrates with Microsoft Teams to securely deliver live and VoD streaming experience

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Ramp eCDN is one of the only Microsoft partners to offer all three types of eCDN technologies (multicast, video caching, and peer-to-peer) as a unified solution for unparallel flexibility. By utilizing the Ramp eCDN integration, organizations set up on… Continue reading Ramp eCDN integrates with Microsoft Teams to securely deliver live and VoD streaming experience→

A 3D-Printed Bowl Feeder for Tiny SMD Parts

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[Andrzej Laczewski] has something big in mind for small parts, specifically SMD resistors and capacitors. He’s not talking much about that project, but from the prototype 3D-printed bowl feeder he built as part of it, we can guess that it’s going to be a pretty cool automation project.

Bowl feeders are common devices in industrial automation, used to take a big pile of parts like nuts and bolts and present them to a process one at a time, often with some sort of orientation step so that all the parts are the right way around. They accomplish this with a …read more

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