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US sanctions China cyber firm for potentially deadly ransomware attack
2 weeks, 1 day ago

US sanctions China cyber firm for potentially deadly ransomware attack

Al Jazeera  

Some firewalls targeted in the US were protecting critical infrastructure companies, the US Treasury Department says. Guan Tianfeng, an employee of Sichuan Silence Information Technology Company, deployed malicious software to 81,000 firewalls run by thousands of companies worldwide in April 2020, including 23,000 in the US, the Treasury Department said in a statement on Tuesday. Sichuan Silence is a cybersecurity …

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Bengaluru-based Sobha Limited hit with ransomware attack, company says no impact observed
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Bengaluru-based Sobha Limited hit with ransomware attack, company says no impact observed

Hindustan Times  

Bengaluru-based real estate firm Sobha Limited’s IT infrastructure was hit by a ransomware attack on August 4, the company said in a regulatory filing. Ransomware attack hits Bengaluru-based Sobha Limited’s IT systems “This is to inform about a cyber security incidence that occurred yesterday, wherein our company's IT infrastructure was targeted by a ransomware attack,” the company said in its …

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Global IT collapse puts cyber firm CrowdStrike in spotlight
5 months ago

Global IT collapse puts cyber firm CrowdStrike in spotlight

LA Times  

A glitchy update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike was responsible for disabling potentially millions of corporate and government computers around the world that run on Microsoft Windows. Representatives of Austin, Texas-based CrowdStrike confirmed online reports that a glitchy update was responsible for disabling potentially millions of corporate and government Windows computers around the world and causing the dreaded “blue screen of …

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Google Is Piloting Face Recognition for Office Security
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Google Is Piloting Face Recognition for Office Security

Wired  

WIRED learned this week that Amazon Web Services investigated claims that the AI search startup Perplexity may have violated the cloud company's rules by appearing to pull data from websites that have attempted to shield themselves from such scraping. At its campus in Kirkland, Washington, Google is rolling out a face recognition system to detect “unauthorized individuals” and block their …

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Medical-Targeted Ransomware Is Breaking Records After Change Healthcare’s $22M Payout
6 months, 1 week ago

Medical-Targeted Ransomware Is Breaking Records After Change Healthcare’s $22M Payout

Wired  

When Change Healthcare paid $22 million in March to a ransomware gang that had crippled the company along with hundreds of hospitals, medical practices, and pharmacies across the US, the cybersecurity industry warned that Change's extortion payment would only fuel a vicious cycle: Rewarding hackers who had carried out a ruthless act of sabotage against the US health care system …

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Cyberattack on aerospace research firm under NIA lens
9 months, 1 week ago

Cyberattack on aerospace research firm under NIA lens

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: In November last year, data from National Aerospace Laboratories was stolen by a hacker group LockBit. A ransomware attack on government-owned National Aerospace Laboratories, India’s largest aerospace research company, on November 15 last year has come under the scanner of the National Investigation Agency, which has started investigating the incident as a cyberterrorist attack. The federal anti-terror agency …

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Confidential data breach in Motilal Oswal by ransomware gang LockBit
10 months ago

Confidential data breach in Motilal Oswal by ransomware gang LockBit

Business Standard  

Broking firm Motilal Oswal Financial Services has fallen victim to a cyber attack by LockBit, which has claimed to have gained access to 'confidential data,' according to a report by technology news portal TechCrunch. LockBit, a ransomware group, claimed responsibility for the attack on its dark web, potentially risking the information of over six million clients of MOFSL. Last year, …

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India most targeted country with 13.7% of cyberattacks: Report
1 year, 1 month ago

India most targeted country with 13.7% of cyberattacks: Report

India TV News  

India is reportedly the highest on the list of targeted countries for cybercrime. The new report Cyfirma, a cybersecurity firm it was reported that India had been the most targeted country in 2022, as the cyber attacks on government agencies grew by more than doubled. Later, in the second half of 2022, there were around 95 per cent more cyberattacks …

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Kansas court system down nearly 2 weeks in ‘security incident’ that has hallmarks of ransomware
1 year, 1 month ago

Kansas court system down nearly 2 weeks in ‘security incident’ that has hallmarks of ransomware

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas officials are calling a massive computer outage that’s kept most of the state’s courts offline for two weeks a “security incident” and, while they had not provided an explanation as of Wednesday, experts say it has all the hallmarks of a ransomware attack. it’s going to knock out the entire state system rather than simply an …

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FBI and European partners seize major malware network in blow to global cybercrime
1 year, 3 months ago

FBI and European partners seize major malware network in blow to global cybercrime

The Independent  

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FBI and European partners seize major malware network in blow to global cybercrime
1 year, 3 months ago

FBI and European partners seize major malware network in blow to global cybercrime

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — U.S. officials said Tuesday that the FBI and its European partners infiltrated and seized control of a major global malware network used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes including crippling ransomware attacks. “Nearly ever sector of the economy has been victimized by Qakbot,” Martin Estrada, the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, …

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FBI and European partners seize major malware network in blow to global cybercrime
1 year, 3 months ago

FBI and European partners seize major malware network in blow to global cybercrime

LA Times  

The FBI announced that it and European partners, including Europol, whose Cybercrime Center is shown, had infiltrated and seized control of a major malware network that was used for more than 15 years to commit crippling ransomware attacks and other crimes. U.S. officials said Tuesday that the FBI and its European partners infiltrated and seized control of a major malware …

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Russian ransomware gang breaches U.S. Energy Department, other federal agencies
1 year, 6 months ago

Russian ransomware gang breaches U.S. Energy Department, other federal agencies

LA Times  

Jen Easterly, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, shown speaking in Washington in February, said the latest Russian hack did not present “a systemic risk to our national security or our nation’s networks.” The U.S. Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang’s global hack of a …

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Ransomware Attacks Have Entered a ‘Heinous’ New Phase
1 year, 9 months ago

Ransomware Attacks Have Entered a ‘Heinous’ New Phase

Wired  

In February, attackers from the Russia-based BlackCat ransomware group hit a physician practice in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, that's part of the Lehigh Valley Health Network. The health care group said that BlackCat had issued a ransom demand, “but LVHN refused to pay this criminal enterprise.” After a couple of weeks, BlackCat threatened to publish data stolen from the system. “As …

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This new malware is targeting crypto investors globally! Here's how you can spot it
1 year, 10 months ago

This new malware is targeting crypto investors globally! Here's how you can spot it

India Today  

The crypto-verse is no stranger to malicious programs and cybercriminals who target crypto users to steal their funds. In a recent report by anti-malware software firm Malwarebytes, it has been found that a new strain of malware known as MortalKombat ransomware and a GO variant of the Laplas Clipper malware have been targeting crypto investors and duping them of their …

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Increase in ransomware, zero-day vulnerabilities, and supply chain attacks top cyber threats for 2023, report
1 year, 11 months ago

Increase in ransomware, zero-day vulnerabilities, and supply chain attacks top cyber threats for 2023, report

The Hindu  

Security solutions firm Barracuda, on Wednesday, shared its cyber threat predictions for 2023. The predictions point to the exploitation of authentication methods, expansions of attack surfaces, more zero-day and supply chain attacks, web application attacks, and exploitation of vulnerabilities in IoTs. And with ransomware-as-a-service business models taking off and the build leak of LockBit 3.0, a new generation of smaller …

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Shutdown of Russia's Hydra Market Disrupts a Crypto-Crime ATM
54 years, 11 months ago

Shutdown of Russia's Hydra Market Disrupts a Crypto-Crime ATM

Wired  

On the dark web, the takedown of yet another cryptocurrency-based black market for drugs has become almost a semiannual routine, with plenty of competitors ready to fill the shoes of any market law enforcement manages to bust. But the seizure of the Russian-language dark-web site Hydra may have ripple effects that go further than most: It represents a disruption of …

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Hackers Make Crucial Data of This Danish Company Public After Ransomware Attack
3 years ago

Hackers Make Crucial Data of This Danish Company Public After Ransomware Attack

News 18  

Personal data stolen from wind turbine maker Vestas by hackers in a so-called ransomware attack last month has been made public, the firm said late on Wednesday. “The hackers managed to retrieve data from the compromised internal file share systems and have made some of the compromised data public,” Vestas said in a statement. It added that the majority of …

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Ransomware hackers release 39,000 internal government files
3 years ago

Ransomware hackers release 39,000 internal government files

Dutch News  

A technology firm that handles sensitive documents for Dutch police, emergency services and security has been targeted by hackers, the Volkskrant reported on Monday. A total of 39,000 documents, including ID documents and invoices, were leaked online after the company, Abiom, refused to comply with a demand by ransomware group LockBit. The Volkskrant said confidential communications with foreign documents were …

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Ransomware hackers release 39,000 internal government files
3 years ago

Ransomware hackers release 39,000 internal government files

Dutch News  

A technology firm that handles sensitive documents for Dutch police, emergency services and security has been targeted by hackers, the Volkskrant reported on Monday. A total of 39,000 documents, including ID documents and invoices, were leaked online after the company, Abiom, refused to comply with a demand by ransomware group LockBit. The Volkskrant said confidential communications with foreign documents were …

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Employees embarassed to report data loss
3 years, 1 month ago

Employees embarassed to report data loss

The Hindu  

Organisations are losing critical data such as customer orders and financial information because employees are too scared or embarrassed to report data loss or ransomware issues while using cloud applications, according to research by IT firm Veritas Technologies. More than half office workers have accidentally deleted files hosted in the cloud, including business documents and presentations, indicating cloud applications such …

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Hackers exploit Kaseya ransomware attack to launch spam campaign
3 years, 5 months ago

Hackers exploit Kaseya ransomware attack to launch spam campaign

The Hindu  

Florida-based IT firm Kaseya was hit by a ransomware attack earlier this month affecting nearly 1,500 businesses in multiple countries. Hackers demanded $70 million in payment to restore the data in what was called the biggest ransomware attack on record. Now, researchers at Malwarebytes say they found an email that poses as a patch for the Kaseya attack, but contains …

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Firm hacked to spread ransomware had previous security flaws
3 years, 5 months ago

Firm hacked to spread ransomware had previous security flaws

Associated Press  

For 21 years, the software company Kaseya labored in relative obscurity — at least until cybercriminals exploited it in early July for a massive ransomware attack that snarled businesses around the world and escalated U.S.-Russia diplomatic tensions. In 2018, for instance, hackers managed to infiltrate Kaseya’s remote tool to run a “cryptojacking” operation, which channels the power of afflicted computers …

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Russia-based ransomware gang REvil offline but cause not clear
3 years, 5 months ago

Russia-based ransomware gang REvil offline but cause not clear

Daily Mail  

The Russia-based criminal syndicate behind a devastating series of recent ransomware attacks on US businesses is now mysteriously offline just days after President Biden urged Russian leader Vladimir Putin to take action. REvil, also known as 'Ransomware evil', was responsible for the Memorial Day ransomware attack on the meat processor JBS and the supply-chain attack this month targeting the Miami-based …

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