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MalwareBytes Security

[updated]QNAP update stops Deadbolt ransomware, annoys some users, starts debate

February 2, 2022 admin deadbolt, forced update, icsci, NAS, QNAP, ransomware

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 16:32:41 +0000

After several warnings to their user and thousands of victims, QNAP pushed out a forced update to their NAS devices.

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: deadbolt forced update icsci nas qnap ransomware

MalwareBytes Security

Ransomware gangs are recruiting breached individuals to persuade companies to pay up

February 2, 2022 admin cisa, dark web, exfiltrated data, identity protection, Insider Threat, lockbit, ransomware, school district

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 12:17:12 +0000

Ransomware attackers are starting to reach out to individuals whose data they have compromised in a breach, asking them to help get the compromised company to pay up.

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: cisa Dark Web exfiltrated data identity protection insider threat lockbit ransomware school district

Independent Krebs

At Request of U.S., Russia Rounds Up 14 REvil Ransomware Affiliates

February 2, 2022 admin andrey sergeevich bessonov, colonial pipeline, darkside, dmitri alperovitch, FSB, gandcrab, immersive labs, kevin breen, Ne'er-Do-Well News, NotPetya, president biden, ransomware, rEvil, roman gennadyevich muromsky, The Coming Storm, Vladimir Putin

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 22:41:34 +0000

The Russian government said today it arrested 14 people accused of working for “REvil,” a particularly aggressive ransomware group that has extorted hundreds of millions of dollars from victim organizations. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said the actions were taken in response to a request from U.S. officials, but many experts believe the crackdown is part of an effort to reduce tensions over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to station 100,000 troops along the nation’s border with Ukraine.

Independent Krebs

Who is the Network Access Broker ‘Wazawaka?’

February 2, 2022 admin 902228, abakan, abaza, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, cs-arena.org, darkside, ddosis.ru, devdelphi@yandex.ru, domaintools, Flashpoint, initial access broker, kopyovo-a, lockbit, mikhail matveev, mikhail mix matveev, mix@devilart.net, mixfb@yandex.ru, Ne'er-Do-Well News, ransomware, uhodiransomware, wazawaka

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 05:17:31 +0000

In a great many ransomware attacks, the criminals who pillage the victim’s network are not the same crooks who gained the initial access to the victim organization. More commonly, the infected PC or stolen VPN credentials the gang used to break in were purchased from a cybercriminal middleman known as an initial access broker. This post examines some of the clues left behind by Wazawaka, the handle chosen by a major access broker in the Russian-speaking cybercrime scene.

QuickHeal Security

Anydesk Software Exploited to Spread Babuk Ransomware

February 2, 2022 admin #babuk, #babuklocker #darkweb, malware, ransomware, Security, Uncategorized

Credit to Author: Preksha Saxena| Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 11:02:35 +0000

We generally see that ransomware attacks are deployed through exploits, unsolicited malicious emails (malspam), or malicious Microsoft Office…

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Security Sophos

Ransomware attacks drive ZTNA adoption

February 2, 2022 admin Featured, products & services, ransomware, sophos ztna, ztna

Credit to Author: Sally Adam| Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:00:20 +0000

Organizations with recent direct experience of a ransomware attack have considerably higher adoption of zero trust network access (ZTNA) technology than those that haven’t fallen victim.

Security Sophos