Research from Symantec and the Carbon Black Threat Hunter team reveals that the Fog ransomware group utilizes an uncommon toolset, including open-source pentesting utilities and Syteca, a legitimate employee monitoring software.  Security Leaders Weigh In Mr. Akhil Mittal, Senior Manager at Black Duck: The real danger in this case isn’t the ransom note — it’s how Fog turns […]

Scattered Spider, the loose-knit cybercrime collective that recently ran roughshod over U.K.- and U.S.-based retailers, has pivoted once again, setting its sites on insurance companies, according to Google Threat Intelligence Group. Google previously warned that the financially motivated threat group, which it tracks as UNC3944, was pivoting to U.S. retailers following a wave of ransomware […]

“It was the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane coming through,” lamented John Miller, Chief Judge of the First Circuit Court of Florida, in an interview with the Harvard Political Review. “They got our computer systems, our hard drive, all of our stored information, [and] our telephone system.” An entire judicial circuit was knocked off […]

Visakhapatnam: City police arrested a man for allegedly trying to deceive youths into cyber slavery in Laos with fake job offers. The accused was identified as Mukhesh, a native of Anakapalle district. Meanwhile, police have decided to issue a lookout circular (LOC) against a Vizag-based woman Ankita, who has been luring the youngsters into cyber […]

An extortion gang claims to have breached Freedman HealthCare, a data and analytics firm whose customers include state agencies, health providers, and insurance companies, and is threatening to dump tens of thousands of sensitive files early Tuesday morning. According to a claim posted Sunday on the shame site belonging to World Leaks, formerly Hunters International, […]

Cyber attacks on state and local governments are becoming more frequent, more sophisticated, and more damaging. Texas is addressing this problem by creating a statewide Cyber Command Center responsible for finding and fixing vulnerabilities in government systems, training workers on best practices, and responding to cyber incidents. Earlier this month, Governor Greg Abbot signed House […]

WTF?! Being affected by a dangerous ransomware operation is bad enough, but at least you might have a chance to recover your files somehow. A recently discovered ransomware strain is making things even trickier by offering a new wiping option that allows affiliate criminals to completely destroy data after encryption. Security researchers have discovered a […]

Security researchers claim Anubis ransomware is adding a file wiper The wiper reduces all files to 0 KB, irreversibly destroying them This could be an additional pressure point during negotiations Anubis, a relatively new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation, added a new feature to its encryptor that irreversibly destroys all encrypted files on the compromised system. Cybersecurity […]