Europol recently published their Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment report for 2021 which highlights several trends relating to cyber threats, with ransomware yet again featuring prominently in their research. The report notes, among several other trends, that ransomware reports have increas
Three separate reports suggest that international law enforcement agencies are continuing to apply pressure to ransomware gangs, whether it’s the gang leaders, infrastructure, or affiliates. Last week we covered how the BlackMatter ransomware gang was experiencing a legal clampdown. Now despite ceas
On November 3, 2021, a Twitter post by vx-underground displayed an announcement by BlackMatter leadership that they were shutting down ransomware operations. The announcement read, “Due to certain unsolvable circumstances associated with pressure from the authorities (part of the team is no longer
When a company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or listing on an internationally respected stock exchange it is a significant financial event in that organization’s history. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is now warning that such events are now being targeted by ransomware gangs in a
According to the threat actors behind the Grief ransomware strain, they have successfully compromised the National Rifle Association (NRA) network, stolen data, and encrypted their data. Bleeping Computer reports that the ransomware group posted the announcement to their leak site along with data st
In a recent article published by Emisoft, it was revealed how researchers discovered a bug in the BlackMatter ransomware’s code. This bug was exploited by researchers to create decryption keys that were secretly handed out to victims of the ransomware gang, potentially losing the gang millions
The infamous financially motivated threat group FIN7 has been discovered to be posing as a legitimate company to hire penetration testers and other cybersecurity professionals to do the heavy lifting of the preliminary steps a typical ransomware attack would follow. FIN7 also tracked as Carbanak, is
In what is writing itself into its own Netflix Original movie at this point, it appears Sodinokibi, also tracked as REvil, infrastructure has been taken offline for the second time this year. The news comes following statements made on the popular hacking forum XSS. The forum posts have been shared
With ransomware attacks now becoming an almost daily phenomenon governments are actively looking at new ways to combat the scourge and protect both individuals, organizations, and national interests. The Australian Minister for Home Affairs, Karen Andrews, has recently published a plan titled the “R
The Japanese tech giant, Olympus, announced that its IT systems in the US, Canada, and Latin America had suffered a cybersecurity incident. Details of the attack are thin on the ground, but the attack follows another incident that occurred in September 2021. The first attack was announced on Septemb