QBot, aka Qakbot, has been around since 2007, while its companion, a threat actor group tagged Black Basta, first surfaced just a few months ago – in April 2022. According to the latest insights into a partnership between Qakbot and Black Basta, the latter uses this modular information stealer to travel through the compromised system […]
In December 2019, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the Russia-linked cybercriminal gang tracked as Evil Corp (aka Dridex, INDRIK SPIDER) that stood behind the deployment and distribution of the notorious Dridex malware targeting banks and financial institutions for nearly a decade. In an attempt to evade sanctions, threat actors […]
Chaos graphical user interface (GUI) builder has been on the market for less than a year, allowing adversaries to craft new ransomware strains. A new ransomware variant dubbed Yashma is its 6th version, available from May 2022. Yashma is the most refined version of this GUI ransomware builder that is known for its flexibility and […]
Iranian state-backed adversaries are accelerating their pace by leveraging different attack vectors and targeting multiple industries across the world. Hot on the heels of the spear-phishing campaign launched by the infamous APT34 group spreading a new Saitama backdoor, another Iran-linked hacking collective hits the headlines performing ransomware attacks against U.S. companies. The Iranian nation-backed COBALT […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) released a joint cybersecurity advisory in regards to the activities of the BlackByte Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) gang. BlackByte ransomware has been used against the businesses located in the USA as the primary targets. The greatest costs fall heavily on the critical infrastructure sectors such […]
LockBit operators are accelerating rapidly. The gang has been on cybersecurity professionals’ radar since 2019, revamping with the launch of a LockBit ransomware version 2.0 in June 2021. On February 07, 2022, The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) released IOCs, warning about LockBit 2.0 ransomware attacks. The current data suggest that the novel campaign is […]
Ransomware actors attempt to stay at the forefront of the malicious trends in their strive for bigger profits. Recently, security researchers spotted a new threat actor leveraging a critical vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence (CVE-2021-26084) to proceed with ransomware infections. Dubbed Atom Silo, the gang relies on CVE-2021-26084 alongside several novel evasion techniques to fly under […]
Hundreds of companies have been recently exposed to a massive supply chain attack on the software company Kaseya. A zero-day bug in Kaseya’s VSA software was nefariously leveraged by the REvil gang to infect 30 managed service providers (MSPs) and multiple their customers with ransomware. Although the vendor has been aware of the vulnerability since […]
Experts warn about an unusual approach to infect targets with BazarLoader — a notorious strain frequently used to deliver ransomware. The hacker collective, dubbed BazarCall, abuses call center functionality to trick victims into downloading the malicious payload. The campaign has been active since at least February 2021, continuously adding new tricks to increase its notoriety. […]
The cybersecurity community is facing a crisis caused by the escalating threat of high-profile ransomware attacks. Advancing the trend of 2020, ransomware continues to be the number one problem in 2021, with the increasing sophistication of intrusions and a constantly growing number of malicious affiliates. Big enterprises remain to be the primary target. Yet, the […]