- Microsoft MSHTML Flaw Exploited by Ryuk Ransomware Gang
September 17, 2021
Criminals behind the Ryuk ransomware were early exploiters of the Windows MSHTML flaw, actively leveraging the bug in campaigns ahead of a patch released by Microsoft this week. Collaborative research by Microsoft and RiskIQ revealed campaigns by Ryuk threat actors early on that exploited the flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-40444. The bug is a remote code execution ...
- U.S. to sanction crypto exchanges, wallets used by ransomware
September 17, 2021
The Biden administration is expected to issue sanctions against crypto exchanges, wallets, and traders used by ransomware gangs to convert ransom payments into fiat money. With ransomware attacks against US interests and infrastructure escalating over the past two years, the White House has increased its efforts to disrupt ransomware operations Read more… Source: Bleeping Computer
- Numando banking Trojan abuses YouTube to manage remote settings
September 17, 2021
A banking Trojan has been detected that abuses YouTube, Pastebin, and other public platforms in order to spread and control compromised machines. On Friday, ESET wrapped up a series on banking Trojans present in Latin America — including Janeleiro, a new malware sample similar to Casbaneiro, Grandoreiro, and Mekotio — but this one does not just ...
- REvil/Sodinokibi Ransomware Universal Decryptor Key Is Out
September 16, 2021
REvil victims, your prayers have been answered: There’s a universal decryptor key waiting to free you. Bitdefender is releasing a free, universal decryptor key to unlock data of victimized organizations that were encrypted by REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware attacks before the gang’s servers went belly-up on July 13. The firm announced that it’s giving away the universal key on ...
- Airline Credential-Theft Takes Off in Widening Campaign
September 16, 2021
A two-year-old espionage campaign against the airline industry is ongoing, with AsyncRAT and other commodity remote-access trojans (RATs) helping those efforts take flight. The campaign can effectively be a bird strike to the business engine, so to speak, resulting in data theft, financial fraud or follow-on attacks, researchers said, who have uncovered new details about ...
- Ransomware encrypts South Africa’s entire Dept of Justice network
September 15, 2021
The justice ministry of the South African government is working on restoring its operations after a recent ransomware attack encrypted all its systems, making all electronic services unavailable both internally and to the public. As a consequence of the attack, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development said that child maintenance payments are now on hold ...
- Attackers Impersonate DoT in Two-Day Phishing Scam
September 15, 2021
Threat actors impersonated the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) in a two-day phishing campaign that used a combination of tactics – including creating new domains that mimic federal sites so as to appear to be legitimate – to evade security detections. Between Aug. 16-18, researchers at e-mail security provider INKY detected 41 phishing emails dangling the ...
- Phishing Eager Travelers
September 15, 2021
Threat actors have always been adept at keeping abreast of worldwide trends – ranging from geopolitical to technical – and rapidly exploiting these trends for their benefit. The current pandemic is no exception. Unit 42 has previously reported on how cybercriminals have preyed on consumers during COVID-19 and on the use of COVID-19 themed phishing ...
- The state of ransomware: national emergencies and million-dollar blackmail
September 14, 2021
Banks have been “disproportionately affected” by a surge in ransomware attacks, clocking a 1,318% increase year-on-year in 2021. Ransomware has become one of the most well-known and prevalent threats against the enterprise today. This year alone, we have seen high-profile cases of ransomware infection — including against Colonial Pipeline, Kaseya, and Ireland’s health service — cause ...
- Brazil debates creation of national strategy to tackle cybercrime
September 13, 2021
Amid growing concerns about increasing threats in the cybersecurity space, the Brazilian government and the banking sector are discussing the creation of a strategy to address crime in digital environments. The president at the Brazilian Federation of Banks (FEBRABAN), Isaac Sidney, and the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Anderson Torres, have started negotiations for the ...
- BlackMatter ransomware hits medical technology giant Olympus
September 13, 2021
Olympus, a leading medical technology company, is investigating a “potential cybersecurity incident” that impacted some of its EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) IT systems last week. Olympus has more than 31,000 employees worldwide and over 100 years of history developing for the medical, life sciences, and industrial equipment industries. The company’s camera, audio recorder, and binocular divisions ...
- Windows MSHTML zero-day exploits shared on hacking forums
September 12, 2021
Threat actors are sharing Windows MSHTML zero-day (CVE-2021-40444) tutorials and exploits on hacking forums, allowing other hackers to start exploiting the new vulnerability in their own attacks. Last Tuesday, Microsoft disclosed a new zero-day vulnerability in Windows MSHTML that allows threat actors to create malicious documents, including Office and RTF docs, to execute commands on a ...
- REvil ransomware is back in full attack mode and leaking data
September 11, 2021
The REvil ransomware gang has fully returned and is once again attacking new victims and publishing stolen files on a data leak site. Since 2019, the REvil ransomware operation, aka Sodinokibi, has been conducting attacks on organizations worldwide where they demand million-dollar ransoms to receive a decryption key and prevent the leaking of stolen files. While in ...
- Ransomware groups continue assault on healthcare orgs as COVID-19 infections increase
September 11, 2021
Ransomware groups have shown no signs of slowing down their assault on hospitals, seemingly ramping up attacks on healthcare institutions as dozens of countries deal with a new wave of COVID-19 infections thanks to the potent Delta variant. Vice Society, one of the newer ransomware groups, debuted in June and made a name for themselves by ...
- SOVA, Worryingly Sophisticated Android Trojan, Takes Flight
September 10, 2021
A new Android banking trojan named SOVA (“owl” in Russian) is under active development, researchers said, and it has big dreams even in its infancy stage. The malware is looking to incorporate distributed denial of service (DDoS), man in the middle (MiTM) and ransomware functionality into its arsenal – on top of existing banking overlay, ...
- Ukrainian man extradited to the US to face botnet, data theft charges
September 10, 2021
A Ukrainian man was arrested in Poland and extradited to the US to face charges as an alleged botnet operator. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) said this week that Glib Oleksandr Ivanov-Tolpintsev was taken into custody in Korczowa, Poland, on October 3 last year. As the US and Poland have an extradition treaty, the 28-year-old was ...
- Hackers leak passwords for 500,000 Fortinet VPN accounts
September 8, 2021
A threat actor has leaked a list of almost 500,000 Fortinet VPN login names and passwords that were allegedly scraped from exploitable devices last summer. While the threat actor states that the exploited Fortinet vulnerability has since been patched, they claim that many VPN credentials are still valid. This leak is a serious incident as the VPN ...
- AT&T Alien Labs warns of ‘zero or low detection’ for TeamTNT’s latest malware bundle
September 8, 2021
AT&T’s Alien Labs security division has sounded the alarm on a malware campaign from TeamTNT which, it claims, has gone almost entirely undetected by anti-virus systems – and which is turning target devices into cryptocurrency miners. Described by Alien Labs researcher Ofer Caspi as “one of the most active threat groups since 2020,” TeamTNT is known ...
- Russia’s Yandex suffers biggest cyberattack yet
September 8, 2021
Russian Internet corporation Yandex revealed on Tuesday that the company’s servers experienced the biggest known denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in Russia’s online space last weekend. Cloudflare, an American web infrastructure firm and a partner of Yandex confirmed the record large scale of the cyberattack. The spokesperson for Russia’s tech giant mentioned that a part of the nation’s ...
- Ragnar Locker Gang Warns Victims Not to Call the FBI
September 7, 2021
All that the FBI/ransomware negotiators/investigators do is muck things up, so we’re going to publish your stuff if you call for help, the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang announced on its darknet data-leak site. In an announcement posted this week and seen by Bleeping Computer, the ransomware operators threatened to publish all the data of victimized organizations ...
