Billion-dollar shoe seller Aldo said a recent claim by a notorious ransomware gang was related to one of the company’s franchise partners. On Wednesday morning, the LockBit ransomware gang claimed it attacked the company, giving it until December 25 to pay a ransom in exchange for an undisclosed amount of stolen data. The gang did […]
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware Report: 2.6 Billion Personal Records Exposed in the Last 2 Years Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • December 7, 2023 Data breaches in the U.S. have hit an all-time high thanks to hacking incidents, including ransomware and vendor attacks, says a new study released by Apple […]
Dec 08, 2023NewsroomCyber Espionage / Cryptocurrency The North Korean threat actor known as Kimsuky has been observed targeting research institutes in South Korea as part of a spear-phishing campaign with the ultimate goal of distributing backdoors on compromised systems. “The threat actor ultimately uses a backdoor to steal information and execute commands,” the AhnLab Security […]
Russian APT28 hackers, also known as Fancy Bear, exploited a Microsoft Outlook zero-day vulnerability to target European NATO member countries, including a NATO Rapid Deployable Corps.
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BLACK HAT EUROPE 2023 — London — The HeadCrab malware, which adds infected devices to a botnet for use in cryptomining and other attacks, has resurfaced with a shiny new variant that allows root access to Redis open source servers. Researchers from Aqua Security said the second variant of cryptomining malware has infected 1,100 servers; […]
Dec 08, 2023The Hacker NewsCryptocurrency / Cyber Crime The Russian founder of the now-defunct Bitzlato cryptocurrency exchange has pleaded guilty, nearly 11 months after he was arrested in Miami earlier this year. Anatoly Legkodymov (aka Anatolii Legkodymov, Gandalf, and Tolik), according to the U.S. Justice Department, admitted to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business that enabled […]
In a blog post on Dec. 5, Microsoft executive vice president of security Charlie Bell announced that as part of its new strategic focus on security, the company will shift Bret Arsenault out of his longtime role as CISO and into a chief security adviser position. In his place, Igor Tsyganskiy will assume the CISO […]
Ransomware attacks have become a significant and pervasive threat in the ever-evolving realm of cybersecurity. Among the various iterations of ransomware, one trend that has gained prominence is Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS). This alarming development has transformed the cybercrime landscape, enabling individuals with limited technical expertise to carry out devastating attacks. Traditional and double extortion ransomware attacks […]