Cybersecurity

Double-Extortion Play Ransomware Strikes 300 Organizations Worldwide

Dec 19, 2023NewsroomRansomware / Threat Intelligence The threat actors behind the Play ransomware are estimated to have impacted approximately 300 entities as of October 2023, according to a new joint cybersecurity advisory from Australia and the U.S. “Play ransomware actors employ a double-extortion model, encrypting systems after exfiltrating data and have impacted a wide range […]

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‘Virtual Wild, Wild West’: Cybercriminals use Wyoming shell companies for global hacks

Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes WASHINGTON — Digital sabotage had knocked a Somalian news website and email accounts offline in August. “I can still feel the frustration,” reporter Abdalle Ahmed Mumin told Reuters. “Our link to the outside world, to the international media, is our website.” It was only after getting help from Qurium, a […]

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SideCopy’s Multi-platform Onslaught: Leveraging WinRAR Zero-Day and Linux Variant of Ares RAT – Blogs on Information Technology, Network & Cybersecurity | Seqrite

Estimated reading time: 13 minutes SEQRITE Labs APT-Team has discovered multiple campaigns of APT SideCopy, targeting Indian government and defense entities in the past few months. The threat group is now exploiting the recent WinRAR vulnerability CVE-2023-38831 (See our advisory for more details) to deploy AllaKore RAT, DRat and additional payloads. The compromised domains, used […]