The US Department of Justice announced via the US Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of New York that Moises Luis Zagala Gonzalez (Zagala), a 55-year-old cardiologist with French and Venezuelan citizenship residing in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, created and rented Jigsaw and Thanos ransomware
Often security researchers will state rather bluntly that a ransomware attack can be financially devastating for an organization. So much in fact that the organization may be forced to shut its doors for good. These extreme cases are often met with the standard response of “it will never happen to m
Back in October 2021, this publication covered how Sodinokibi operations were ceased following Russian law enforcement seizing the ransomware gangs infrastructure. Now following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian and US officials are no longer collaborating on fighting cybercrime. This has now
In what can only be described as a meteoric rise to prominence, the Black Basta ransomware gang is believed to be behind 12 separate attacks in only a matter of weeks. The first known Black Basta attacks seemed to have occurred in the second week of April 2022. Further, it appears as if the gang is
Qakbot, also tracked as QBot, is well known for its botnet distributing the credential-stealing trojan component of the malware via malicious Microsoft Office documents. In many instances, Office documents, especially Word documents, would abuse the application’s macros feature to run malicious code
The last set of vulnerabilities that had everyone talking was the reveal of the Log4j2 flaw that impacted a Java framework for collecting logs in Apache webservers. As is now the case the vulnerability draw comparison to the Spectre and Meltdown flaws seen a few years prior. Comparisons between
This publication has covered how malicious malware called wipers have seen an uptick in use following the start of the Ukrainian war. Several new wipers have been discovered since the outbreak of war. Following these discoveries, the FBI warned that satellite communication infrastructure was coming
Mars Stealer appears to be rising in popularity among hackers looking to steal information without spending extended periods developing their malware. Mars Stealer first announced its presence on the malware scene in 2021 on underground hacker forums marketed as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS). A quic
Eset researchers have discovered an ongoing campaign using a previously undiscovered version of the Korplug malware. Korplug was previously seen in a campaign targeting Australian government departments and businesses in the middle of 2020. Korplug, also going by PlugX, Thor, and the latest variant
When this publication last covered Conti, the ransomware used by a highly skilled gang infamous for targeting large corporations, it covered how the gang had brought some of TrickBot’s experienced malware developers into the fold to work on making BazarBackdoor more efficient at distributing the ran