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Category Archives: Ransomware

Justice Dept. Claws Back $2.3M Paid by Colonial Pipeline to Ransomware Gang

June 7 2021 By BrianKrebs in A Little Sunshine, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Ransomware, rEvil, Security, Sodinokibi

The U.S. Department of Justice said today it has recovered $2.3 million worth of Bitcoin that Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware extortionists last month. The funds had been sent...

The DarkSide Ransomware Gang

June 2 2021 By Bruce Schneier in crime, Cybercrime, Ransomware, Russia, Security

The New York Times has a long story on the DarkSide ransomware gang.

A glimpse into DarkSide’s secret communications in the months leading up to the Colonial Pipeline attack...
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New Disk Wiping Malware Targets Israel

May 26 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Iran, Malware, Ransomware, Security

Apostle seems to be a new strain of malware that destroys data. In a post published Tuesday, SentinelOne researchers said they assessed with high confidence that based on the code...

Double-Encrypting Ransomware

May 21 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Malware, Ransomware, Security

This seems to be a new tactic:

Emsisoft has identified two distinct tactics. In the first, hackers encrypt data with ransomware A and then re-encrypt that data with ransomware...
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Adding a Russian Keyboard to Protect against Ransomware

May 18 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Malware, Ransomware, Russia, Security

A lot of Russian malware — the malware that targeted the Colonial Pipeline, for example — won’t install on computers with a Cyrillic keyboard installed. Brian Krebs wonders...

Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate

May 17 2021 By BrianKrebs in FBI, Ransomware, rEvil, Security, Sodinokibi, Twitter

In a Twitter discussion last week on ransomware attacks, KrebsOnSecurity noted that virtually all ransomware strains have a built-in failsafe designed to cover the backsides of the malware purveyors:...

DarkSide Ransomware Gang Quits After Servers, Bitcoin Stash Seized

May 14 2021 By BrianKrebs in Intel 471, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Ransomware, rEvil, Security

The DarkSide ransomware affiliate program responsible for the six-day outage at Colonial Pipeline this week that led to fuel shortages and price spikes across the country is running for...

Ransomware Is Getting Ugly

May 14 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Cybercrime, Ransomware, Security

Modern ransomware has two dimensions: pay to get your data back, and pay not to have your data dumped on the Internet. The DC police are the victims of...