The U.S. National Security Council (NSC) is urging the governments of all countries participating in the International Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI) to issue a joint statement announcing they will not pay ransoms to cybercriminals, according to three sources with knowledge of the plans. CRI’s 47 members will convene in Washington for its annual summit on […]
A new ransomware family dubbed 3AM has emerged in the threat landscape. It was detected in an attack by a LockBit affiliate who attempted to deploy the ransomware when LockBit was blocked on the targeted network. Diving in details It begins with the use of the gpresult command to retrieve the policy settings for a […]
A new ransomware family calling itself 3AM has emerged. To date, the ransomware has only been used in a limited fashion. Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, has seen it used in a single attack by a ransomware affiliate that attempted to deploy LockBit on a target’s network and then switched to 3AM when […]
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware UK Crime and Cybersecurity Agencies Urge ‘Holistic’ View of Ransomware Ecosystem Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • September 11, 2023 Image: Shutterstock Stopping the ransomware epidemic is less about tackling individual crypto-locking malware variants and more about combating the entire ecosystem of bad actors underpinning digital extortion, the British […]
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 […]
Ransomware gang BianLian has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack against nonprofit Save The Children International. The ransomware gang has been active since June 2022, and primarily targets critical infrastructure and healthcare organizations. In previous attacks, BianLian has extorted these organziations for their data. While the charity was not directly named by the ransomware gang, […]
Reported ransomware attacks on organizations in the United Kingdom reached record levels last year, when criminals compromised data on potentially more than 5.3 million people from over 700 organizations, according to a surprisingly neglected dataset published by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The true count of ransomware incidents is a known unknown for officials trying […]
Investigations have begun into a massive ransomware attack that has affected Sri Lanka’s government cloud system, Lanka Government Cloud (LGC). The investigation is being conducted by the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team and Coordination Center (CERT|CC). Sri Lanka’s Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) confirmed the attack to several local news outlets on September […]
Rhysida Ransomware gang claims to have hacked three more US hospitals Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2023 Rhysida Ransomware group added three more US hospitals to the list of victims on its Tor leak site after the PROSPECT MEDICAL attack. Recently the Rhysida ransomware group made the headlines because it announced the hack of Prospect Medical […]