Mallox is a sophisticated and dangerous family of malicious software that has been causing significant damage to organizations worldwide.
In 2023, this ransomware strain demonstrated an uptick in attacks, the overall number of discovered Mallox samples exceeding 700. In the first half of 2024, the malware was still being actively developed, with new versions being released several times a month, while the Mallox RaaS affiliate program advertised on dark web forums was seeking new partners. This article aims to provide a comprehensive technical overview of the ransomware and its history.
Read more…
Source: Kaspersky
Related:
- Assessed Cyber Structure and Alignments of North Korea in 2023
October 10, 2023
Historically Mandiant has made assessments on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) cyber program based on Mandiant responses to intrusions, defector accounts, and OSINT reporting, in conjunction with government disclosures of DPRK units and motivation information. These assessments were generalizations and as new activity, such as cryptocurrency-focused units, emerged it blended the efforts from DPRK ...
- How it works: The novel HTTP/2 ‘Rapid Reset’ DDoS attack
October 10, 2023
A number of Google services and Cloud customers have been targeted with a novel HTTP/2-based DDoS attack which peaked in August. These attacks were significantly larger than any previously-reported Layer 7 attacks, with the largest attack surpassing 398 million requests per second. The attacks were largely stopped at the edge of our network by Google’s ...
- FBI and CISA Release Update on AvosLocker Advisory
October 10, 2023
Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), #StopRansomware: AvosLocker Ransomware (Update) to disseminate known indicators of compromise (IOCs), tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and detection methods associated with the AvosLocker variant identified through FBI investigations as recently as May 2023. This release ...
- ‘Gay furry hackers’ brag of second NATO break-in, steal and leak more data
October 10, 2023
On Sunday, the SiegedSec crew claimed it broke into six NATO web portals: the alliance’s Joint Advanced Distributed Learning e-learning website; the NATO Lessons Learned Portal, from which the gang said it stole 331 documents; the Logistics Network Portal (588 documents and other files); the Communities of Interest Cooperation Portal; the NATO Investment Division Portal ...
- Survey finds more than 50% of German companies victim of cyberattacks
October 10, 2023
A multi-country survey by the British insurer Hiscox shows that security authorities around the world are struggling in the fight against cybercrime. According to the Hiscox comparison with selected countries, German businesses are relatively frequent targets of hackers. The latest edition of the annual comparison of eight countries shows 53% of the companies surveyed reported cyberattacks. According ...
- ‘Predator Files’ spyware scandal reveals brazen targeting of civil society, politicians and officials
October 9, 2023
Shocking spyware attacks have been attempted against civil society, journalists, politicians and academics in the European Union (EU), USA and Asia, according to a major new investigation by Amnesty International. Among the targets of Predator spyware are United Nations (UN) officials, a Senator and Congressman in the USA and even the Presidents of the European ...