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North Korean IT workers set their sights on European organizations

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North Korean IT workers set their sights on European organizations 2025-04-02 at 13:05 By Zeljka Zorz North Korean IT workers are expanding their efforts beyond the US, and are seeking to fraudulently gain employment with organizations around the world, but most especially in Europe. According to Google’s threat researchers, they are also increasingly attempting to […]

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BlackLock ransomware onslaught: What to expect and how to fight it

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BlackLock ransomware onslaught: What to expect and how to fight it 2025-02-18 at 18:33 By Zeljka Zorz BlackLock is on track to become the most active ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) outfit in 2025, according to ReliaQuest. Its success is primarily due to their unusually active presence and good reputation on the ransomware-focused Russian-language forum RAMP, and their

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Ransomware payments plummet as more victims refuse to pay

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Ransomware payments plummet as more victims refuse to pay 2025-02-06 at 15:49 By Zeljka Zorz Chainalysis’ latest report on how the ransomware landscape changed from 2023 to 2024 shows a promising trend: An increasing number of victims refuses to pay the ransom. The total volume of ransom payments decreased year-over-year by approximately 35%, the blockchain

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Man charged with stealing $65 million by exploting DeFI protocols vulnerabilities

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Man charged with stealing $65 million by exploting DeFI protocols vulnerabilities 2025-02-04 at 12:16 By Help Net Security A Canadian man has been indicted in federal court in New York for exploiting vulnerabilities in two decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols to fraudulently obtain about $65 million from the protocols’ investors. The fraudulent scheme According to court

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North Korean IT workers are extorting employers, FBI warns

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North Korean IT workers are extorting employers, FBI warns 2025-01-24 at 16:48 By Zeljka Zorz The FBI is on a mission to raise awareness about the threat that North Korean IT workers present to organizations in the US and around the world. While corporate espionage comes to mind first, the threat goes beyond that: “In

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Attackers are encrypting AWS S3 data without using ransomware

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Attackers are encrypting AWS S3 data without using ransomware 2025-01-13 at 19:03 By Zeljka Zorz A ransomware gang dubbed Codefinger is encrypting data stored in target organizations’ AWS S3 buckets with AWS’s server-side encryption option with customer-provided keys (SSE-C), and asking for money to hand over the key they used. They do not exfiltrate the

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8Base hacked port operating company Luka Rijeka

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8Base hacked port operating company Luka Rijeka 2024-12-09 at 14:48 By Zeljka Zorz Luka Rijeka, a company that offers maritime transport, port, storage of goods and forwarding services in Rijeka, Croatia, has been hacked by the 8Base ransomware group. The group claimed the attack on their dark web data leak site and professed that they’ve

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Private US companies targeted by Stonefly APT

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Private US companies targeted by Stonefly APT 2024-10-03 at 14:01 By Zeljka Zorz Undeterred by the indictment issued against one of its alleged members, North Korean APT group Stonefly (aka APT45) continues to target companies in the US, Symantec threat analysts warned. About Stonefly Also known as Andariel and OnyxFleet, Stonefly has been linked to

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Hide yo environment files! Or risk getting your cloud-stored data stolen and held for ransom

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Hide yo environment files! Or risk getting your cloud-stored data stolen and held for ransom 2024-08-15 at 17:16 By Zeljka Zorz Cybercriminals are breaking into organizations’ cloud storage containers, exfiltrating their sensitive data and, in several cases, have been paid off by the victim organizations to not leak or sell the stolen data. “The attackers

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Record-breaking $75 million ransom paid to cybercrime group

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Record-breaking $75 million ransom paid to cybercrime group 2024-08-02 at 07:01 By Help Net Security Ransomware attacks have reached new heights of ambition and audacity over the past year, marked by a notable surge in extortion attacks, according to a Zscaler. The findings from the report uncovered a record-breaking ransom payment of $75 million to

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The changes in the cyber threat landscape in the last 12 months

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The changes in the cyber threat landscape in the last 12 months 2024-07-23 at 14:31 By Zeljka Zorz When it comes to the cyber threat landscape, change is the only constant: the inevitable interplay between cybercriminals and law enforcement agencies makes it inevitable. Europol’s recently released Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) 2024 report covers

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Medibank breach: Security failures revealed (lack of MFA among them)

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Medibank breach: Security failures revealed (lack of MFA among them) 2024-06-18 at 17:31 By Zeljka Zorz The 2022 Medibank data breach / extortion attack perpetrated by the REvil ransomware group started by the attackers leveraging login credentials stolen from a private computer of an employee of a Medibank’s IT contractor. According to a statement by

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The number of known Snowflake customer data breaches is rising

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The number of known Snowflake customer data breaches is rising 2024-06-10 at 15:46 By Zeljka Zorz LendingTree subsidiary QuoteWizard and automotive parts provider Advance Auto Parts have been revealed as victims of attackers who are trying to sell data stolen from Snowflake-hosted cloud databases. Snowflake says that their investigation is still ongoing, but continues to

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Snowflake denies breach, blames data theft on poorly secured customer accounts

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Snowflake denies breach, blames data theft on poorly secured customer accounts 2024-06-01 at 23:32 By Zeljka Zorz Snowflake is disputing claims made by a threat actor who stole data belonging to Santander and Ticketmaster, and maintains that the theft of customer data was the result of stolen customer login credentials. “We are aware of recent

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Snowflake compromised? Attackers exploit stolen credentials

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Snowflake compromised? Attackers exploit stolen credentials 2024-05-31 at 22:17 By Zeljka Zorz Have attackers compromised Snowflake or just their customers’ accounts and databases? Conflicting claims muddy the situation. What is Snowflake? Snowflake is cloud-based data storage and analytics company based in the US, and claims nearly 9,500 organizations around the world as customers. “From an

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Organizations struggle to defend against ransomware

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Organizations struggle to defend against ransomware 2024-05-17 at 07:01 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Jeremy Nichols, Director, Global Threat Intelligence Center at NTT Security Holdings, discusses a recent surge in ransomware incidents. After a down year in 2022, ransomware and extortion incidents increased in 2023. More than 5,000 ransomware victims

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Global ransomware crisis worsens

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Global ransomware crisis worsens 2024-05-09 at 07:31 By Help Net Security Ransomware and extortion incidents surged by 67% in 2023, according to NTT Security Holdings’ 2024 Global Threat Intelligence Report. Global ransomware crisis After a down year in 2022, ransomware and extortion incidents increased in 2023. More than 5,000 ransomware victims were detected or posted

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Ransomware in Q1 2024: Frequency, size of payments trending downwards, SMBs beware!

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Ransomware in Q1 2024: Frequency, size of payments trending downwards, SMBs beware! 2024-04-19 at 15:46 By Zeljka Zorz More organizations hit by ransomware gangs are starting to realize that it doesn’t pay to pay up: “In Q1 2024, the proportion of victims that chose to pay touched a new record low of 28%,” ransomware incident

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Ransomware group maturity should influence ransom payment decision

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Ransomware group maturity should influence ransom payment decision 2024-04-11 at 16:16 By Zeljka Zorz Your organization has been hit by ransomware and a decision has to be made on whether or not to make the ransom payment to get your data decrypted, deleted from attackers’ servers, and/or not leaked online. The decision will depend on

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NHS Scotland confirms ransomware attackers leaked patients’ data

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NHS Scotland confirms ransomware attackers leaked patients’ data 2024-03-28 at 14:31 By Zeljka Zorz NHS Dumfries and Galloway (part of NHS Scotland) has confirmed that a “recognised ransomware group” was able to “access a significant amount of data including patient and staff-identifiable information,” and has published “clinical data relating to a small number of patients.”

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