Hive ransomware group was not your average crime syndicate. Formed by a conglomeration of elite hacking teams, instead of scattered individuals, the group operated more like a parent company, …
Preventing Cryptocurrency Cyber Extortion
To solve crime, the old saying still holds: “Follow the money.” But how do you do that for cybercrimes when the money itself is decentralized and anonymous—as is the case with cryptocurrency? In …
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TeslaGun Primed to Blast a New Wave of Backdoor Cyberattacks
A newly discovered cyberattack panel dubbed TeslaGun has been discovered, used by Evil Corp to run ServHelper backdoor campaigns. Data gleaned from an analysis by the Prodraft Threat Intelligence …
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Unraveling How Cybercriminals Extort Businesses Worldwide
The paper, "An Anatomy of Crypto-Enabled Cybercrimes," takes a detailed look at how highly sophisticated criminal organizations, mainly based in Russia and North Korea, extort money from corporations …
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US disrupts North Korean hackers that targeted hospitals
The FBI and Justice Department recently disrupted the activities of a hacking group that was sponsored by the North Korean government and that targeted U.S. hospitals with ransomware. The FBI and …
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5 Years That Altered the Ransomware Landscape
The ransomware landscape has evolved considerably since WannaCry dramatically drove home the potential severity of the threat five years ago on May 12. What has changed somewhat less over the same …
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Joint Cybersecurity Advisory Released by CISA, FBI, AUS CSC and UK NCSC Regarding Iranian Government-Sponsored APT
CISA reports that an advanced persistent threat (APT) group since March of 2021 has been exploiting Fortinet vulnerabilities and, since October 2021, a Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell vulnerability “to …
Law firm hackers double ransom and claim to have material on President Trump
The cybercrime group REvil has doubled the extortion ransom against compromised law firm Grubman, Shire, Meiselas and Sacks. The law firm represents clients such as Lady Gaga, Drake, Elton John, …
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Hackers who extorted Uber and LinkedIn plead guilty
In 2016, one American citizen and one Canadian national teamed up to compromise the systems of Uber and LinkedIn in order to steal user information, which they subsequently used in order to extort the …
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A DDoS gang is extorting businesses posing as Russian government hackers
Threat actors are impersonating the notorious state-backed Russian hacking group Fancy Bear (aka Sofacy, APT28 and Sednit) as part of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) extortion campaign …
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