Collaborate Disseminate
Ryuk is one of the most dangerous Ransomware families. It is (allegedly) run by a specialized cybercrime actor that during the last 2 years mainly focused on targeting enterprise environments. The amount of bitcoins demanded in their ransom attacks var… Continue reading Tracing fresh Ryuk campaigns itw
The crooks haven’t yet been caught and arrested, but their malware distribution network has been hit hard. Continue reading Microsoft on the counterattack! Trickbot malware network takes a hit
In case you hadn’t noticed, it was a bad week for system admins. Pennsylvania-based United Health Services, a company that owns and operates hospitals across the US and UK, was hit by a ransomware attack early in the week. The attack, which appears to be the Ryuk ransomware, shut down …read more
Over the past 10 days, someone has been launching a series of coordinated attacks designed to disrupt Trickbot, an enormous collection of more than two million malware-infected Windows PCs that are constantly being harvested for financial data and are often used as the entry point for deploying ransomware within compromised organizations. Continue reading Attacks Aimed at Disrupting the Trickbot Botnet
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, October 2020.
COVID-19 wasn’t the only virus seriously disrupting the start of the new UK academic year, … Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for October 2020
Universal Health Services discovered all their Windows PCs shut down over the weekend. It looks like a widespread Ryuk ransomware infection.
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The Ryuk ransomware is suspected to be the culprit. Continue reading Universal Health Services Ransomware Attack Impacts Hospitals Nationwide
Ransomware Attacks Double and Evolve Year-on-year! Security researchers have uncovered that year-on-year ransomware attacks are doubling in number. According to a report from
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Security researchers found evidence that the Conti ransomware strain could be a possible successor to the Ryuk crypto-malware family. Vitali Kremez, strategic advisor for SentinelLabs, analyzed both Conti and Ryuk. He found that the former appeared to … Continue reading Conti Ransomware Deemed a Possible Successor of Ryuk
Several attack campaigns waited two weeks after achieving a successful Trickbot infection before they deployed Ryuk ransomware as their final payload. SentinelOne came across the attacks as the result of monitoring an attack server employed by Trickbot… Continue reading Ryuk Ransomware Deployed Two Weeks After Initial Trickbot Infection