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Conti ransomware group’s pulse stops, but did it fake its own death?

June 23, 2022 admin conti, conti ransomware, ransomware

Credit to Author: Mark Stockley| Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 16:54:11 +0000

The leak site essential to the operation of Conti ransomware has disappeared, but everything may not be as it appears.

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Conti ransomware disappears—did it fake its own death?

June 23, 2022 admin conti, conti ransomware, ransomware

Credit to Author: Mark Stockley| Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 16:54:11 +0000

The leak site essential to the operation of Conti ransomware has disappeared, but everything may not be as it appears.

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Security vulnerabilities: 5 times that organizations got hacked

June 21, 2022 admin Business, Exploits, Government, hack, patch management, ransomware, vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: Bill Cozens| Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:04:02 +0000

In this post, we break down 5 times hackers used security vulnerabilities in 2021 to attack governments and businesses.

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ALPHV squeezes victim with dedicated leak site for employees and customers

June 17, 2022 admin alphav, alphav ransomware, blackcat, blackcat ransomware, brett callow, darkside, darkside ransomware, noberus, noberus ransomware, ransomware, rust

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 18:01:31 +0000

ALPHV, also known as BlackCat, created a leak site on the regular web, betting it can squeeze money out of victims faster than a dark web site.

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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

Independent Krebs

Ransomware Group Debuts Searchable Victim Data

June 14, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, alphv ransomware, blackcat ransomware, brett callow, emsisoft, ransomware, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 19:53:12 +0000

Cybercrime groups that specialize in stealing corporate data and demanding a ransom not to publish it have tried countless approaches to shaming their victims into paying. The latest innovation in ratcheting up the heat comes from the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group, which has traditionally published any stolen victim data on the Dark Web. Today, however, the group began publishing individual victim websites on the public Internet, with the leaked data made available in an easily searchable form.

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Karakurt extortion group: Threat profile

June 14, 2022 admin accenture security, advanced intel, anydesk, chainalysis, cirt, cisa, cobalt strike, conti ransomware, cyber incident response team, cybercrime, cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, diavol, diavol ransomware, dridex, evil corp., FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, filezilla, karakurt, karakurt extortion group, karakurt lair, karakurt team, kimberly goody, Mandiant, mega.io, mfa, Mimikatz, multi-factor authentication, ncc, ransomhouse, ransomware, ransomware syndicate, rclone, tetra defense, virtual private network, VPN, Wall Street Journal

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:00:29 +0000

An obscure group called Karakurt has extorted organizations in the US and elsewhere. Know how to keep it away from your network.

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“Multiple adversaries” exploiting Confluence vulnerability, warns Microsoft

June 14, 2022 admin APT, atlassian, confluence, Exploits and vulnerabilities, nation state, ransomware

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:43:08 +0000

Microsoft has warned of APT groups and ransomware authors exploiting the now patched Confluence vulnerability. We take a look at the dangers.

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