Play Ransomware’s Attack Playbook Unmasks it as Another Hive Affiliate like Nokoyawa

Credit to Author: Don Ovid Ladores| Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Play is a new ransomware that takes a page out of Hive and Nokoyawa’s playbook. The many similarities among them indicate that Play, like Nokoyawa, may be a Hive affiliate.

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New Golang Ransomware Agenda Customizes Attacks

Credit to Author: Mohamed Fahmy| Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A new piece of ransomware written in the Go language has been targeting healthcare and education enterprises in Asia and Africa. This ransomware is called Agenda and is customized per victim.

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Ransomware Actor Abuses Genshin Impact Anti-Cheat Driver to Kill Antivirus

Credit to Author: Ryan Soliven| Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We investigate mhyprot2.sys, a vulnerable anti-cheat driver for the popular role-playing game Genshin Impact. The driver is currently being abused by a ransomware actor to kill antivirus processes and services for mass-deploying ransomware.

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Facebook’s Metaverse is Expanding the Attack Surface

Credit to Author: William Malik| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Understand the cybersecurity risks in the Metaverse

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SolidBit Ransomware Enters the RaaS Scene and Takes Aim at Gamers and Social Media Users With New Variant

Credit to Author: Nathaniel Morales| Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This blog entry offers a technical analysis of a new SolidBit variant that is posing as different applications to lure gamers and social media users. The SolidBit ransomware group appears to be planning to expand its operations through these fraudulent apps and its recruitment of ransomware-as-a-service affiliates.

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LockBit Ransomware Group Augments Its Latest Variant, LockBit 3.0, With BlackMatter Capabilities

Credit to Author: Ivan Nicole Chavez| Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In June 2022, LockBit revealed version 3.0 of its ransomware. In this blog entry, we discuss the findings from our own technical analysis of this variant and its behaviors, many of which are similar to those of the BlackMatter ransomware.

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