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Read moreConti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part IV: Cryptocrime
March 8 2022Three stories here last week pored over several years’ worth of internal chat records stolen from the Conti ransomware group, the most profitable ransomware gang in operation today. The...
Read moreConti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part III: Weaponry
March 4 2022Part I of this series examined newly-leaked internal chats from the Conti ransomware group, and how the crime gang dealt with its own internal breaches. Part II explored what...
Read moreConti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part II: The Office
March 2 2022Earlier this week, a Ukrainian security researcher leaked almost two years’ worth of internal chat logs from Conti, one of the more rapacious and ruthless ransomware gangs in operation...
Read more"Change your code to improve cryptomining"... or we'll dump 1TB of stolen secrets.
Read moreConti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part I: Evasion
March 1 2022A Ukrainian security researcher this week leaked several years of internal chat logs and other sensitive data tied to Conti, an aggressive and ruthless Russian cybercrime group that focuses...
Read moreConti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part I: Evasion
March 1 2022A Ukrainian security researcher this week leaked several years of internal chat logs and other sensitive data tied to Conti, an aggressive and ruthless Russian cybercrime group that focuses...
Read moreDecrypting Hive Ransomware Data
March 1 2022Nice piece of research:
Abstract: Among the many types of malicious codes, ransomware poses a major threat. Ransomware encrypts data and demands a ransom in exchange for decryption. As...
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Red Cross Hack Linked to Iranian Influence Operation?
February 16 2022A network intrusion at the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) in January led to the theft of personal information on more than 500,000 people receiving assistance from...
Read moreWazawaka Goes Waka Waka
February 14 2022In January, KrebsOnSecurity examined clues left behind by "Wazawaka," the hacker handle chosen by a major ransomware criminal in the Russian-speaking cybercrime scene. Wazawaka has since "lost his mind"...
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