This is not a joke – it is not April 1. The GoodWill ransomware group, demands such good deeds as donating blankets to people on the street or taking disserving children to fast food restaurants as a treat! To prove the victims have carried out their good deeds they must …
Are ransomware gangs on the way up, reorganising or on the way down?
To be honest it depends on what research you are reading at the time. Even though these gangs are styling themselves on real world businesses, they are criminals and so do keep some thing secret. It does not matter ransomware is a major risk to any organisation. The main thing …
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Ransomware attack have increased again
I must be sounding a bit like a broken record (see references at the bottom), as I regularly write about the fact that ransomware attacks are ever increasing! Here is another report showing just that: A favorite of cybercriminals and nation states, ransomware incidents increase again | TechRepublic Just know …
Universities as targets UPDATED 23 May 2022
This post was first made on 12 April 2022 Update 23 May 2022 Now it is School Districts as targets: K-12 school districts in New Mexico, Ohio crippled by cyberattacks – The Record by Recorded Future Ransomware attack exposes data of 500,000 Chicago students (bleepingcomputer.com) Update 20 May 2022 I …
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Is the Conti gang really gone?
The Conti cyber-crime gang has featured in many of my blog post – they have been a prolific perpetrator of some of the worse cyber attacks. Now researchers are reporting that much of their illicit infrastructure has closed down: Notorious cybercrime gang Conti ‘shuts down,’ but its influence and talent …
BlackByte cyber gang active despite the FBI advisory
The BlackByte “Ransomware-as-a-Service” gang and it’s affiliates have been active worldwide, despite the FBI and US Secret Service issuing a cyber security advisory about the gangs operations. No one is slowing down BlackByte ransomware gang • The Register Ransomware in more hands can only be a bad thing for our …
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The malware player Wizard Spider
Wizard Spider, is the gang that is behind the malware Conti, Ryuk and Trickbot. Research by PRODAFT has examined their growth and operations over the last five years that has built an illicit corporate-like multimillion-dollar organisation. Terms like “full-service”, “it manages the entire lifecycle of a cyberattack” and “it invests …