BlueNoroff is the name of an APT group coined by Kaspersky researchers while investigating the notorious attack on Bangladesh’s Central Bank back in 2016. A mysterious group with links to Lazarus and an unusual financial motivation for an APT. The group seems to work more like a unit within a larger formation of Lazarus attackers, with the ability to tap into its vast resources: be it malware implants, exploits, or infrastructure.…
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Ryuk is a ransomware that encrypts a victim’s files and requests payment in Bitcoin cryptocurrency to release the keys used for encryption. Ryuk is used exclusively in targeted ransomware attacks.
Ryuk was first observed in August 2018 during a campaign that targeted several enterprises.…
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Cuba ransomware is an older ransomware, that has recently undergone some development. The actors have incorporated the leaking of victim data to increase its impact and revenue, much like we have seen recently with other major ransomware campaigns.
In our analysis, we observed that the attackers had access to the network before the infection and were able to collect specific information in order to orchestrate the attack and have the greatest impact.…
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Over the past year, we have seen ransomware attackers change the way they have responded to organizations that have either chosen to not pay the ransom or have recovered their data via some other means. At the end of the day, fighting ransomware has resulted in the bad actors’ loss of revenue.…
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Babuk ransomware is a new ransomware threat discovered in 2021 that has impacted at least five big enterprises, with one already paying the criminals $85,000 after negotiations. As with other variants, this ransomware is deployed in the network of enterprises that the criminals carefully target and compromise.…
A cybercrime article from 2011 named as “Cybercrime: is it out of control?” on the website of Guardian has been found to be serving up the Angler Exploit Kit.
The Angler Exploit Kit is a Web-based utility toolbelt that hackers use to test the defenses of a user’s computer.…
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Researchers from Malwarebytes Unpacked, a security firm, have detected a malvertising, which derived from “malicious advertising” uses online advertising to spread malware and it involves malware-laden advertisements into legitimate online advertising websites, in the PlentyOfFish, a Vancouver-based online dating service which makes money from advertising.…
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