The prolific cyber criminal gang, LockBit, have released screens shots apparently showing that they have stolen 100GB of data from the Agenzia delle Entrate, or the Italian Government Tax Department. At the moment only a small sample of the data has been made public by LockBit, to convince the Italian …
Ransomware victims in a searchable database for threat actors to access!
It gives the threat actors a chance to check on victim’s exploited vulnerabilities, see who pays when infected by ransomware and other useful bits of information if you plan to maximise your cyber criminal profits. Experts concerned about ransomware groups creating searchable databases of victim data – The Record by …
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Now it is Son of Conti
I think it is true to say no one is sure what is happening to the Conti cyber criminal gang – other than, following the leak of it’s information earlier in the year, it has fractured. Son of Conti: Ransomware tries its hand at politics – The Record by Recorded …
Has the Conti Ransomware Gang finally stopped operating?
Research and analysis is showing that the malicious websites run by the Conti Gang to support it’s ransomware operations are now closed: Conti ransomware finally shuts down data leak, negotiation sites (bleepingcomputer.com) However the threat actors have not gone away – ransomware makes too much money for them to simply …
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The state of the ransomware threat
This report by Adam Janofsky at The Record shows some dipping in the number of reported ransomware attacks over the past few weeks. However there has been a measured increase in the activity of the ransomware gang LockBit. Ransomware tracker: the latest figures [June 2022] – The Record by Recorded …
Lack of knowledge will hamper anyone’s cyber security efforts
This equally applies to individuals, large and small organisations and government departments. The threat actors best friend, is when we all compartmentalise our cyber security issues, dealing with them quietly and behind closed doors – this includes trying to pay the cyber criminals off! This gives them the opportunity to …
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It’s that Conti gang again
The prolific cyber criminal gang is back in the news – if it was ever out. Conti spotted working on exploits for Intel ME flaws • The Register The data extortion gang Karakurt is believed to be associated with the Conti gang. Not ransomware this time that encrypts your data …
