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Tampa Bay Times hit with Ryuk ransomware attack

January 24, 2020 admin chicago tribune, CrowdStrike, dch health system, emotet, imperial county, imperial county california, lake city, lake city florida, Los Angeles Times, ProPublica, ransom, ransom.ryuk, ransomware, ryuk, Ryuk Ransomware, tampa bay times, tribune publishing, trickbot, Trojan.TrickBot, us coast guard

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:11:10 +0000

Florida newspaper The Tampa Bay Times suffered a Ryuk ransomware attack Thursday, making it the latest major victim of the notorious ransomware family that continues to rise in popularity.

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iNSYNQ Ransom Attack Began With Phishing Email

August 9, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, Accenture iDefense, alex holden, CrowdStrike, Elliot Luchansky, Hold Security, iNSYNQ, Megacortex ransomware

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 18:18:55 +0000

A ransomware outbreak that hit QuickBooks cloud hosting firm iNSYNQ in mid-July appears to have started with an email phishing attack that snared an employee working in sales for the company, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. It also looks like the intruders spent roughly ten days rooting around iNSYNQ’s internal network to properly stage things before unleashing the ransomware. iNSYNQ ultimately declined to pay the ransom demand, and it is still working to completely restore customer access to files.

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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

February 18, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, APNIC, Bill Woodcock, Cisco Talos, Comodo, CrowdStrike, data breaches, DHS, DNSpionage, dnssec, EPP, extensible provisioning protocol, Farsight Security, FireEye, Frobbit, ICANN, John Crain, Key Systems, Lars Michael Jogbäck, LetsEncrypt, Netnod, Packet Clearing House, Patrik Fältström, PCH, SecurityTrails, The Coming Storm, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:51:01 +0000

The U.S. government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. But to date, the specifics of exactly how that attack went down and who was hit have remained shrouded in secrecy. This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers.

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Blowing the Whistle on Bad Attribution

August 17, 2017 admin CrowdStrike, Defense Intelligence Agency, DNC hack, Dragos Inc., Grizzly Steppe, Matt Tait, Norse Corp., Other, P.A.S. Web shell, Profexer, Robert M. Lee, Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 04:29:51 +0000

The New York Times this week published a fascinating story about a young programmer in Ukraine who’d turned himself in to the local police. The Times says the man did so after one of his software tools was identified by the U.S. government as part of the arsenal used by Russian hackers suspected of hacking into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) last year. It’s a good read, as long as you can ignore that the premise of the piece is completely wrong.

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DNI: Putin Led Cyber, Propaganda Effort to Elect Trump, Denigrate Clinton

January 23, 2017 admin CrowdStrike, Daily Beast, dcleaks.com, DHS, DNC, DNI, FBI, Guccifer 2.0, Jonanthan Zdziarksi, Kevin Poulsen, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Nina Agrawal, Officer of the Director of National Intelligence, Other, RT, russia today, Vladimir Putin, Voice of America, wired

Russian President Vladimir Putin directed a massive propaganda and cyber attack operation aimed at discrediting Hillary Clinton and getting Donald Trump elected, the top U.S. intelligence agencies said in a remarkable yet unshocking report released on Friday.