2024 had its fair share of high-profile cyber attacks, with companies as big as Dell and TicketMaster falling victim to data breaches and other infrastructure compromises. In 2025, this trend will continue. So, to be prepared for any kind of malware attack, every organization needs to know it...
The ransomware has been observed to exploit CVE-2023-3519 and uses HackTool.Win32.ProcTerminator.A for defense evasion and HackTool.PS1.VeeamCreds for credential access in its different attack chains. Read more Phobos Emerges as a Formidable Threat in Q1 2024, LockBit Stays in the Top Spot...
Bryan Vorndran: When we talk about the actors behind some of the more recent ransomware attacks, the name that's generally raised is Scattered Spider. And that's a criminal group that we have a lot of attention on because of the havoc they're wreaking a...
was one of the most recent ransomware attack targets. This month, they announced that they were the target of an attack using the Egregor ransomware. Although it seems that the attackers haven't demanded a ransom amount, the company acknowledges that the hackers have published sensitive in...
In a recent investigation by Microsoft Incident Response of a BlackByte 2.0 ransomware attack, we found that the threat actor progressed through the full attack chain, from initial access to impact, in less than five days, causing significant business disruption for the victim organization. Researc...
Ransomware is a type ofmalwarethat locks up your data or your device, then demands that you pay a ransom to get it back. But despite its recent boom in popularity, ransomware’s roots reach back decades. One of the earliest instances of ransomware was the 1989 AIDSTrojan horse attack. Hos...
The group behind a recent ransomware attack that exposed sensitive medical data across many UK hospitals has published that data on darknet.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Personal data stolen from wind turbine maker Vestas by hackers in a so-called ransomware attack last month has been made public, the firm said late on Wednesday. A cyber security incident on Nov. 19 forced Vestas to shut down IT systems across multiple bus...
As data security challenges intensify, the new ransomware trends demand new approaches to ransomware protection. The old approach for small businesses was to wait until the end of the attack and the subsequent data recovery from backups. Now, there’s a higher possibility of data theft than befo...
As not all ransomware provides this timer countdown, the WannaCry attack shows computer users that "payment will be raised" after a specific countdown, along with another display raising urgency to pay up, threatening that the user will completely lose their files after the set timeout, the te...