- 20 Arrests In QQAAZZ Multi-Million Money Laundering Case
October 15, 2020
An unprecedented international law enforcement operation involving 16 countries has resulted in the arrest of 20 individuals suspected of belonging to the QQAAZZ criminal network which attempted to launder tens of millions of euros on behalf of the world’s foremost cybercriminals. Some 40 house searches were carried out in Latvia, Bulgaria, the United Kingdom, Spain and ...
- FIN11 Cybercrime Gang Shifts Tactics to Double-Extortion Ransomware
October 14, 2020
The FIN11 financial crime gang is shifting its tactics from phishing and credential-theft to ransomware, researchers said. According to FireEye Mandiant researchers, FIN11 is notable for its “sheer volume of activity,” known to run up to five disparate wide-scale email phishing campaigns per week. “At this point, it would be difficult to name a client that ...
- Software AG Data Released After Clop Ransomware Strike – Report
October 13, 2020
Clop and the group’s signature malware has struck again — this time hitting a giant target in the form of German software conglomerate Software AG. The company isn’t paying a mammoth $23 million ransom (so far), and over the weekend it confirmed that the crooks were releasing company data, according to reports. The Clop ransomware cybercriminals ...
- Cybercriminals Gamble With Victims’ Livelihoods To Pass the Covid-19 Blues
October 12, 2020
In the Trend Micro 2020 midyear security report, we discussed how the Covid-19 global pandemic affected the cybersecurity industry. However, the pandemic didn’t just change the way businesses (and subsequently, their employees) operate; the nature of certain criminal activities have also changed in this time of isolation. Interestingly, some of this involves what we might call ...
- Court orders seizure of ransomware botnet controls as U.S. election nears
October 12, 2020
Microsoft said Monday it had used a court order to take control of computers that were installing ransomware and other malicious software on local government networks and threatening to disrupt the November election. The maker of the Windows operating system said it seized a series of internet protocol addresses hosted by U.S. companies that had been ...
- The most common malicious email attachments infecting Windows
October 11, 2020
To stay safe online, everyone needs to recognize malicious attachments that are commonly used in phishing emails to distribute malware. When distributing malware, threat actors create spam campaigns that pretend to be invoices, invites, payment information, shipping information, eFaxes, voicemails, and more. Included in these emails are malicious Word and Excel attachments, or links to them, ...
- ZeroLogon: Ransomware gang now using critical Windows flaw in attacks
October 9, 2020
Microsoft is warning that cybercriminals have started to incorporate exploit code for the ZeroLogon vulnerability in their attacks. The alert comes after the company noticed ongoing attacks from cyber-espionage group MuddyWater (SeedWorm) in the second half of September. This time, the threat actor is TA505, an adversary who is indiscriminate about the victims it attacks, with ...
- Massachusetts school district shut down by ransomware attack
October 8, 2020
The Springfield Public Schools district in Massachusetts has become the victim of a ransomware attack that has caused the closure of schools while they investigate the cyberattack. Springfield is the third largest school district in Massachusetts with over 25,000 students, 4,500 employees, and more than sixty schools. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the school district opened ...
- HEH P2P Botnet Sports Dangerous Wiper Function
October 8, 2020
A freshly discovered botnet dubbed HEH by researchers is casting a wide net, looking to infect any and all devices that use Telnet on ports 23/2323. It’s particularly destructive: It contains code that wipes all data from infected systems. Perhaps ironically, its operators also have a penchant for civil advocacy – a loading of the Universal ...
- Transforming IoT Monitoring Data into Threat Defense
October 8, 2020
In our midyear roundup report, we shared that in the first half of 2020, there was a 70% increase in inbound attacks on devices and routers compared with the second half of 2019. This data includes attacks on Internet of Things (IoT) systems, which remain alarming and prevalent. With the aim of protecting customers effectively by ...