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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) are releasing this joint CSA to disseminate the Play ransomware group’s IOCs and TTPs identified through FBI investigations Read More …
New evidence suggests that the popular Play ransomware is now being rented out to cybercriminals. Known as ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), cybercriminals can pay to use the malware itself alongside the infrastructure needed to pull off an attack.This is a relatively new Read More …
A prominent Spanish bank has confirmed that it is dealing with a ransomware attack that has impacted multiple branches. On Friday, Globalcaja issued a statement assuring customers that the incident has not impacted its entities’ operations, and that electronic banking Read More …
The Play ransomware group has developed two custom tools in .NET, namely Grixba and VSS Copying Tool, which it uses to improve the effectiveness of its cyberattacks. The two tools enable attackers to enumerate users and computers in compromised networks, Read More …
A team of ransomware hackers have published proprietary inside data allegedly obtained the Dutch shipping intelligence agency Royal Dirkzwager, according to cybsersecurity trade press. The leak purportedly include employee passports, contracts and other sensitive information. The hackers claim to have Read More …
The Play ransomware group listed networking firm A10 Networks in its leak site, after briefly gaining access to its IT infrastructure, according to data breach notifications firm BetterCyber. BetterCyber notes that the leak site claims the group has “private and Read More …
Texas-based cloud computing provider Rackspace has confirmed that the Play ransomware operation was behind a recent cyberattack that took down the company’s hosted Microsoft Exchange environments. This follows a report last month by cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, which detailed a new Read More …
The Play ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack on H-Hotels (h-hotels.com) that has resulted in communication outages for the company. H-Hotels is a hospitality business with 60 hotels in 50 locations across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, offering Read More …