Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware Experts See Surge in Attacks, Including in Russia, Using Leaked LockBit Code Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 17, 2024 A LockBit ransomware attack doesn’t always come from LockBit. (Image: Shutterstock) What do a German healthcare network, a Russian security company and an American bridal clothing retailer […]
Cheap ransomware is being sold for one-time use on dark web forums, allowing inexperienced freelancers to get into cybercrime without any interaction with affiliates. Researchers at the intelligence unit at the cybersecurity firm Sophos found 19 ransomware varieties being offered for sale or advertised as under development on four forums from June 2023 to February […]
LUBBOCK, Texas — A report from CNN on Wednesday said Muleshoe, Lockey and Hale Center saw suspicious activity from Russian hackers, citing experts from US cybersecurity firm Mandiant. According to the report, a hacking group with ties to the Russian government was accused of a cyberattack in Bailey County that caused the water tower to […]
Egypt’s National Telecommunication Institute (NTI) has partnered with Arab Security Consultants (ASC), a distributor of the International Council of E-Commerce Consultants (EC-Council) in Egypt, to bolster collaboration in network security and cybersecurity. EC-Council, operating in 145 countries, describes itself as the world’s largest cybersecurity technical certification body. This agreement aims to enable the […]
(TNS) — A ransomware group claims it’s behind the network disruption that forced Traverse City Area Public Schools to cancel class in early April. In a letter to TCAPS families, Dr. John VanWagoner, district superintendent, acknowledged the claim without specifying who made it. According to an article on comparitech.com, ransomware group Medusa posted to its […]
The hacking group Medusa has posted files it claims to have illegally obtained from the Tarrant Appraisal District network to the dark web, the appraisal district confirmed April 16. In a statement to the Fort Worth Report, Chief Appraiser Joe Don Bobbitt said the agency limits the sensitive data it collects and is working closely […]
(Elaine Clark) Predatory staff who target vulnerable adults in care homes are free to move jobs unchallenged, The Independent can reveal, as almost 10,000 incidents of sexual abuse have been recorded in the last three years. The fact that abusers can move from home to home emerged in an independent review sparked by complaints made […]
Mandiant today released a report that links Sandworm, a Russian state-backed threat actor, to a series of recent cyberattacks against water utilities. The Google LLC unit also changed the codename it uses to track the hacking group. Mandiant will refer to Sandstorm as APT44 going forward, with APT being an abbreviation of advanced persistent threat. […]
Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Predatory staff who target vulnerable adults in care homes are free to move jobs unchallenged, The Independent can reveal, as almost 10,000 incidents of sexual abuse have been recorded in the last […]
Linux variant of Cerber ransomware targets Atlassian servers Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2024 Threat actors are exploiting the CVE-2023-22518 flaw in Atlassian servers to deploy a Linux variant of Cerber (aka C3RB3R) ransomware. At the end of October 2023, Atlassian warned of a critical security flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-22518 (CVSS score 9.1), that affects all versions of Confluence Data Center […]
