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Low-Drama ‘Dark Angels’ Reap Record Ransoms

August 5, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, amerisourcebergen corporation, Bleeping Computer, brett stone-gross, cencora, dark angels, data breaches, dunghill leak, ransomware, SABRE, Sophos, sysco, threatlabz, zscaler

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 19:52:35 +0000

A ransomware group called Dark Angels made headlines this past week when it was revealed the crime group recently received a record $75 million data ransom payment from a Fortune 50 company. Security experts say the Dark Angels have been around since 2021, but the group doesn’t get much press because they work alone and maintain a low profile, picking one target at a time and favoring mass data theft over disrupting the victim’s operations.

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Sophos Discovers Ransomware Abusing “Sophos” Name

July 18, 2023 admin brand abuse, brandjacking, Featured, raas, ransomware, Sophos, threat research

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:20:01 +0000

Attackers will sometimes use the name of security companies in their malware. While performing a regular search on VirusTotal looking for interesting malware and new ransomware variants using our threat hunting rules this week, a Sophos X-Ops analyst discovered a novel ransomware executable that appears to use “Sophos” in the UI of the panel alerting […]

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Apple & Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2023 Edition

July 11, 2023 admin adam barnett, andrew brandt, apple zero-day, Cisco, cve-2023-32046, cve-2023-32049, cve-2023-35311, cve-2023-36884, immersive labs, ios 16.5.1, kevin breen, macos 13.4.1, patch tuesday july 2023, Rapid7, safari 16.5.2, Security Tools, Sophos, storm-0978, Time to Patch, Trend Micro

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 22:55:07 +0000

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to quash 130 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and related software, including at least five flaws that are already seeing active exploitation. Meanwhile, Apple customers have their own zero-day woes again this month: On Monday, Apple issued (and then quickly pulled) an emergency update to fix a zero-day vulnerability that is being exploited on MacOS and iOS devices.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2022 Edition

December 14, 2022 admin apple zero-day, cve-2022-41076, cve-2022-44698, cve-2022-44710, cve-2022-44713, Greg Wiseman, immersive labs, kevin breen, Latest Warnings, microsoft patch tuesday december 2022, Powershell, Rapid7, Security Tools, Sophos, Time to Patch, trend micro's zero day initiative, will dormann, windows

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 17:01:07 +0000

Microsoft has released its final monthly batch of security updates for 2022, fixing more than four dozen security holes in its various Windows operating systems and related software. The most pressing patches include a zero-day vulnerability in a Windows feature that tries to flag malicious files from the Web, a critical bug in PowerShell, and a dangerous flaw in Windows 11 systems that was detailed publicly prior to this week’s Patch Tuesday.

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Conti’s Ransomware Toll on the Healthcare Industry

April 18, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, conti, emotet, emsisoft, errol weiss, FBI, h-isac, health information sharing & analysis center, healthcare information and management systems society, microsoft, Ne'er-Do-Well News, proofpoint, ransomware, ryuk, Sophos, u.s. cybersecurity & infrastructure security agency, Zloader

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 20:41:08 +0000

Conti — one of the most ruthless and successful Russian ransomware groups — publicly declared during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic that it would refrain from targeting healthcare providers. But new information confirms this pledge was always a lie, and that Conti has launched more than 200 attacks against hospitals and other healthcare facilities since first surfacing in 2018 under the name “Ryuk.”

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Non-stop Sophos protection during the coronavirus pandemic

March 17, 2020 admin coronavirus, Corporate, covid-19, Sophos

Credit to Author: Editor| Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 18:00:24 +0000

SophosLabs, Managed Threat Response, and Global Support Services are operating as normal 24×7.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/YcjVFPYyXnY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Sophos opens new chapter with take-private acquisition

March 2, 2020 admin Corporate, Sophos, thoma bravo

Credit to Author: Kris Hagerman| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 09:13:27 +0000

Accelerating the next-gen transition to deliver enhanced cybersecurity solutions for our customers<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/PfQuj_7a1OA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Sophos presenta Intercept X para móvil con soluciones de seguridad para el sistema operativo de Chrome, Android e iOS

January 22, 2020 admin Actualidad, nota de prensa, Soluciones, Sophos

Credit to Author: Sophos Iberia| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:02:21 +0000

Sophos presenta Sophos Intercept X para móvil con nuevas funciones de seguridad para dispositivos con sistema operativo Chrome y una mejor defensa frente a amenazas móviles para los dispositivos Android e iOS. Sophos también ha publicado recientemente la investigación, Fleeceware Apps Persist on the Play Store, que detalla los últimos descubrimientos sobre las aplicaciones conocidas como […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/aZlXGiYyPMs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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