Capcom, the Japanese video game developer and publisher, that has created multi-million-selling game franchises, like Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, Street Fighter, Mega Man, Devil May Cry, had suffered a breach in its corporate networks in November la…
Read More Behind The Capcom Ransomware AttackA ransomware attack aimed at one of the largest warehousing and transportation providers in the Netherlands, Bakker Logistiek, caused a cheese shortage in Dutch supermarkets. Last week, Bakker Logistiek was the victim of a ransomware attack that encryp…
Read More Cheese Delivery Crisis for Dutch Supermarkets Following Ransomware AttackThe Avaddon ransomware operators updated their malware after security researchers released a public decryptor in February 2021. The Avaddon ransomware family first appeared in the threat landscape in February 2020, and its authors started offering it with a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model in June, 2020. In August 2020, cybersecurity intelligence firm Kela was the first to report that […]
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Read More Evolution and rise of the Avaddon Ransomware-as-a-ServicePDI Group is an Ohio-based company manufacturing different types of ground support equipment for military needs, like dollies, trollies, and platforms for transporting weapons, engines, and airplane parts during servicing operations. The attacker, Babu…
Read More New Ransomware Group Leaks Data Belonging to a Important US Military ContractorCNA Financial is a leading US-based insurance company, considered to be one of the sixth-largest commercial insurance companies in the USA, according to the Insurance Information Institute, providing a wide range of insurance products, including cyber …
Read More CNA Was Hit by a Cyberattack and Its Operations Were ImpactedThe PC vendor Acer became the victim of a REvil ransomware attack. The requested ransom might be the largest one to date, REvil asking for $50,000,000. Acer is the 6th-largest PC vendor by unit sales in the world with more than 7,000 employees and over…
Read More REvil Ransomware Hacked PC Vendor AcerOver the past year, ransomware attacks are not showing any signs of slowing down, with the average ransom paid to cybercriminals by organizations being triple now. The Cybersecurity researchers from Palo Alto Networks analyzed ransomware attacks that…
Read More The New Record for Ransomware Demands Now at $30 MillionGandCrab malware is spread via an executable binary file which is returned after GandCrab is running on the local machine as a file called “bhxsew.exe”. During the process, the ransomware will try to collect and determine the external IP addresses of t…
Read More GandCrab Ransomware Affiliate Member Was Arrested For Phishing AttacksSEPE, the Spanish government agency for labor systems were taken down following a ransomware attack. Ryuk is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that’s been active since August 2018 and is known for running a private affiliate program. In this prog…
Read More Ryuk Ransomware Hits 700 Spanish Government Labor Agency OfficesFlagstar Bank, one of the largest residential mortgage servicers and largest banks in the United States, became the victim of a major data breach in January, exposing customer and employee data. What role has Accellion played in the data breach? Accel…
Read More US Bank and Mortgage Lender Flagstar Victim of a major data breachThe pandemic has created a prosperous playground for the attackers that have nefarious activities in mind. When working from home, as many employees currently do, the company’s systems might be not as protected from RDP attacks as they would have been …
Read More A Year-long Exponential Rise in RDP Credential FraudMore good news in the cybercrime law-and-order world, this time a bust of ransomware crooks.
Read More Egregor ransomware criminals allegedly busted in Ukraine