Ransomware operations are using legitimate Kickidler employee monitoring software for reconnaissance, tracking their victims’ activity, and harvesting credentials after breaching their networks. In attacks observed by cybersecurity companies Varonis and Synacktiv, Qilin and Hunters International ransomware affiliates installed Kickidler, an employee monitoring tool that can capture keystrokes, take screenshots, and create videos of the screen....Read More
The Kansas Office of Judicial Administration continues its IT modernization, shaped by the October 2023 ransomware attack and recent legislation. This effort is part of a broader push to align technology across all branches of state government while preserving their independence. In February, Kansas launched the IT Integration, Assessment, Roadmap, and Planning Project with Gartner...Read More
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The ransom-seeking cybercriminals behind the extortion group Lockbit appear to have suffered a breach of their own, according to a rogue post to one of the group’s websites and security analysts who follow the gang. On Wednesday one of Lockbit’s darkweb sites was replaced with a message saying, “Don’t do...Read More
Image courtesy of crypto.news A group claiming to be from Prague has hacked LockBit’s dark web panel, leaking sensitive data including its internal systems and Bitcoin wallets. LockBit, a notorious ransomware gang, had their internal data package compromised, which included over 60,000 Bitcoin BTC addresses, approximately 75 user credentials, and ransom negotiation logs. Analysts at...Read More
Online education software provider PowerSchool on May 7 said the threat actors they paid a ransom to following a December 2024 cyberattack have reached out to multiple school district customers in apparent attempts to extort them in exchange for restoring stolen data.The original hack in late December reportedly exposed the sensitive personal data of more...Read More
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Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware Exposes Details of Victims, ‘Aggressive’ Negotiations, Cryptocurrency Addresses Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • May 8, 2025 LockBit data leak sites displayed this message on May 8, 2025. One year to the day after an international law enforcement operation unmasked and indicted the leader of the notorious LockBit...Read More
Multiple ransomware groups seen abusing Windows Common Log File System bug Among the abusers are RansomEXX and Play The bug is used to drop backdoors, encryptors, and more Notorious ransomware actors have been abusing a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System to gain system privileges and deploy malware on target devices, multiple...Read More
The LockBit ransomware group has itself fallen victim to a data breach after its affiliate panels on the dark web were hacked and provided with a message containing a link to a MySQL database dump. All of the group’s management pages now display the text: Don’t commit crimes. Crimes are bad. Greetings from Prague. The...Read More
