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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

May 13, 2024 admin 3k@xakep.ru, 7.9521020220, A Little Sunshine, antichat, Breadcrumbs, Cerber, constella intelligence, d.horoshev@gmail.com, dmitrij ju horoshev, dmitry yuriyevich khoroshev, exploit, icq number 669316, Intel 471, khoroshev1@icloud.com, lockbit, lockbitsupp, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nerowolfe, pin@darktower.su, putinkrab, ransomware, Ransomware as a Service, sitedev5@yandex.ru, stairwell.ru, tkaner.com, u.s. department of the treasury, verified

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 11:26:27 +0000

Last week, the United States joined the U.K. and Australia in sanctioning and charging a Russian man named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the leader of the infamous LockBit ransomware group. LockBit’s leader “LockBitSupp” claims the feds named the wrong guy, saying the charges don’t explain how they connected him to Khoroshev. This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years.

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Confluence exploits used to drop ransomware on vulnerable servers

June 16, 2022 admin atlassian, Cerber, confluence, CryptoGuard, cve-2022-26134, Featured, Intercept X, Powershell, ransomware, security operations, sophos managed threat response (mtr), SophosLabs Uncut, threat research, Tomcat, webshell

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 11:00:03 +0000

Automated attacks are now widely exploiting the Atlassian vulnerability

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Labs quarterly report finds ransomware’s gone rampant against businesses

August 8, 2019 admin Cerber, CTNT, gandcrab, Locky, Phobos, ransomware, ransomware report, rapid, reports, ryuk, Ryuk Ransomware, Sodinokibi, Troldesh, Troldesh ransomware

Credit to Author: Wendy Zamora| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 14:00:00 +0000

This quarter, we noticed one threat dominating the landscape so much it deserved its own hard look. Ransomware is back in a big way, targeting businesses with brute force.

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2018 Malware Forecast: ransomware hits hard, continues to evolve

November 2, 2017 admin Android, Cerber, Google Play, malware, NotPetya, Ransomwares, Security Tips, SophosLabs, WannaCry

Credit to Author: Bill Brenner| Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 10:00:31 +0000

SophosLabs looked at the most prolific ransomware variants. And, we offer you the tools to better defend against them.<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=43824&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/KUjPWMy0Kt8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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2018 Malware Forecast: ransomware hits hard, crosses platforms

November 2, 2017 admin Android, Cerber, Google Play, malware, NotPetya, Ransomwares, Security Tips, SophosLabs, WannaCry

Credit to Author: Bill Brenner| Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 10:00:31 +0000

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Labs report: summer ushers in unprecedented season of breaches

October 12, 2017 admin 3rd quarter, Android malware, astrum, breach, Cerber, cybercrime, cybercrime tactics and techniques, emotet, Equifax, exploit kit, francophone, fruitfly, globeimposter, Locky, mac malware, malicious spam, malspam, Malwarebytes, malwarebytes labs, Malwarebytes news, National Health Service, NHS, oceanlotus, q3 2017, report, RIG, smartscreen, sonic, tech support scams, trickbot, trojan.clicker.hyj, whole foods

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:00:27 +0000

In this edition of the Malwarebytes Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques report, we saw a number of high profile breaches targeting the personal information of hundreds of millions of people. We also observed shifts in malware distribution, the revival of some old families, and found cases of international tech support scams.

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Week in Security (August 7 – August 13)

August 14, 2017 admin Cerber, certificates, dna, Locky, Magnitude, mamba, ransomware, Security, Security world, Week in security, weekly blog roundup

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 19:51:26 +0000

A compilation of security news and blog posts from Monday the 7th of August to August 14th. We looked at security certificates and the new bloated Cerber ransomware.

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