Reuters Poland intervenes as Russian ‘shadow fleet’ ship spotted near power cable WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland’s military intervened after a ship from the Russian “shadow fleet” was seen performing suspicious manoeuvres near a power cable connecting Poland with Sweden, Poland’s prime minister said on Wednesday. NATO has stepped up security in the Baltic following a string...Read More
DragonForce is not just another ransomware brand – it’s a destabilizing force trying to reshape the ransomware landscape. Counter Threat Unit (CTU) researchers are actively tracking the evolution of the threat posed by the group. Enter the dragon DragonForce is involved in high-impact attacks targeting both traditional IT infrastructure and virtualized environments (e.g., VMware ESXi),...Read More
Within hours of a cyber incident that disrupted some of its services, Ohio-based Kettering Health said fraudsters were calling its patients and requesting credit card payments for medical expenses. WHY IT MATTERS A network cyber attack limiting access to patient care systems across Kettering’s 14 medical centers and more than 120 outpatient facilities caused a...Read More
Kettering Health reported an apparent ransomware attack May 20 that caused a systemwide outage in its western Ohio facilities. The hospital system canceled elective inpatient and outpatient procedures, and instead focused on acute care.Although Kettering did not specify ransomware in its news update, it admitted to experiencing a “cybersecurity incident” caused by unauthorized access to...Read More
A “small percentage” of data stored on a council’s education network, including personal data, was stolen in a recent cyberattack, according to local authority bosses. On May 6, West Lothian Council experienced a “sophisticated” ransomware attack from a group of unknown cyber-assailants. This led to the authority’s education network being isolated from its wider systems....Read More
On Monday, October 16, 2023, Oleg B., a technician working at the Czech branch of aerospace and defense corporation Thales, landed at Paris Charles-de-Gaulle airport with colleagues to attend a professional conference. As the group prepared to head for the taxi area, they were stopped by police: Oleg B. did not know it, but special...Read More
A 3AM ransomware affiliate is conducting highly targeted attacks using email bombing and spoofed IT support calls to socially engineer employees into giving credentials for remote access to corporate systems. This tactic was previously linked to the Black Basta ransomware gang and later observed in FIN7 attacks, but its effectiveness has driven a wider adoption....Read More
The criminal group DragonForce has exploded onto the cybersecurity scene in recent weeks, taking credit for the recent ransomware attacks on UK retail giants M&S and the Co-op. DragonForce is a ransomware as a service platform which provides malware and attack infrastructure to affiliate groups that are unable to launch large-scale attacks on their own....Read More
BleepingComputer reports that the newly emergent VanHelsing ransomware-as-a-service operation has released its affiliate panel, data leak site, and Windows encryptor source codes after “th30c0der”, one of its old developers, attempted to peddle such data for $10,000. Source link .........................Read More
