Sep 30, 2023THNRansomware / Cyber Threat The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning of a new trend of dual ransomware attacks targeting the same victims, at least since July 2023. “During these attacks, cyber threat actors deployed two different ransomware variants against victim companies from the following variants: AvosLocker, Diamond, Hive, Karakurt, LockBit, […]
Sep 15, 2023THNRansomware / Cyber Threat The threat actors behind RedLine and Vidar information stealers have been observed pivoting to ransomware through phishing campaigns that spread initial payloads signed with Extended Validation (EV) code signing certificates. “This suggests that the threat actors are streamlining operations by making their techniques multipurpose,” Trend Micro researchers said in […]
Sep 13, 2023THNRansomware / Malware A new ransomware family called 3AM has emerged in the wild after it was detected in a single incident in which an unidentified affiliate deployed the strain following an unsuccessful attempt to deploy LockBit (aka Bitwise Spider or Syrphid) in the target network. “3AM is written in Rust and appears […]