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Read moreSo Unchill: Melting UNC2198 ICEDID to Ransomware Operations
February 25 2021Mandiant Advanced Practices (AP) closely tracks the shifting tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of financially motivated groups who severely disrupt organizations with ransomware. In May 2020, FireEye ...
Read moreSo Unchill: Melting UNC2198 ICEDID to Ransomware Operations
February 25 2021Mandiant Advanced Practices (AP) closely tracks the shifting tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of financially motivated groups who severely disrupt organizations with ransomware. In May 2020, FireEye ...
Read moreCyber Criminals Exploit Accellion FTA for Data Theft and Extortion
February 22 2021Starting in mid-December 2020, malicious actors that Mandiant tracks as UNC2546 exploited multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Accellion’s legacy File Transfer Appliance (FTA) to install a newly discovered...
Read moreCyber Criminals Exploit Accellion FTA for Data Theft and Extortion
February 22 2021Starting in mid-December 2020, malicious actors that Mandiant tracks as UNC2546 exploited multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Accellion’s legacy File Transfer Appliance (FTA) to install a newly discovered...
Read moreEgregor ransomware criminals allegedly busted in Ukraine
February 15 2021More good news in the cybercrime law-and-order world, this time a bust of ransomware crooks.
Read moreRansomware Profitability
February 10 2021Analyzing cryptocurrency data, a research group has estimated a lower-bound on 2020 ransomware revenue: $350 million, four times more than in 2019. Based on the company’s data, among last year’s...
Read moreS3 Ep17: Facemasks, hidden ads and paranormal hacking [Podcast]
January 28 2021Latest podcast - listen now! And don't forget to leave us a review if you like us...
Read morePolice Have Disrupted the Emotet Botnet
January 28 2021
A coordinated effort has captured the command-and-control servers of the Emotet botnet:
Emotet establishes a backdoor onto Windows computer systems via automated phishing emails that distribute Word documents...
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Arrest, Seizures Tied to Netwalker Ransomware
January 27 2021U.S. and Bulgarian authorities this week seized the darkweb site used by the NetWalker ransomware cybercrime group to publish data stolen from its victims. In connection with the seizure,...
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