LockBit ransomware group has marked its presence on the dark web portal by adding two new victims to its roster – Maisons de l’Avenir in France and Shinwa Co in Japan. The threat actors have issued a stern deadline for their demands, set for February 4, 2024. While the ransomware group remains tight-lipped about the motive […]
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Security researchers have discovered a significant increase in global botnet activity between December 2023 and the first week of January 2024, with spikes observed exceeding one million devices. Writing in an advisory published on Friday, Netscout ASERT explained that, on a typical day, approximately 10,000 such devices engaged in malicious reconnaissance scanning last year, with […]
Officials at the State Department are working through roles and hiring challenges at the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, according to a Government Accountability Office report. The Thursday report, which looks at cyber diplomacy efforts in the United States, reported that officials at the new bureau responsible for pushing U.S. cyber policy interests abroad […]
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Healthcare , Industry Specific Report to State Regulators Indicates Big Jump in Number of Patients Affected Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • January 15, 2024 Singing River Health System was hit by a ransomware attack last August that has compromised the information of nearly 253,000 patients. (Image: Singing River) […]
Jan 16, 2024NewsroomCryptocurrency / Cyber Threat The operators behind the now-defunct Inferno Drainer created more than 16,000 unique malicious domains over a span of one year between 2022 and 2023. The scheme “leveraged high-quality phishing pages to lure unsuspecting users into connecting their cryptocurrency wallets with the attackers’ infrastructure that spoofed Web3 protocols to trick […]
Tura Scandinavia AB allegedly finds itself targeted by the LockBit ransomware group, marking another episode in the company’s history of cybersecurity challenges. This cyberattack on Tura Scandinavia AB, accompanied by a now-closed deadline date, was posted on the dark web where the threat actor, the LockBit ransomware group, posted its claims of the intrusion. The […]
Jan 16, 2024NewsroomCryptocurrency / Windows Security Threat actors have been observed leveraging a now-patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows to deploy an open-source information stealer called Phemedrone Stealer. “Phemedrone targets web browsers and data from cryptocurrency wallets and messaging apps such as Telegram, Steam, and Discord,” Trend Micro researchers Peter Girnus, Aliakbar Zahravi, and Simon […]
The second coming is imminent What a tumultuous couple of years Black Country, New Road have had, what with starting out 2022 with the release of their critically acclaimed sophomore effort Ants From Up There which landed the same week that frontman and primary songwriter Isaac Wood opted to amicably depart the collective. Cancelling a […]