Ghana Business News reports: For about five days now some customers of the largest electricity seller in the country, Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) have been unable to buy power and others have had their power off for days without respite, because some sections of the company’s systems have been hacked, ghanabusinessnews.com has been told…
Category: Malware
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
Cl (Update): Failure to patch resulted in an embarrassing government leak Last week, DataBreaches noted that Guacamaya Group hacktivists had leaked emails from El Estado Mayor Conjunto De Chile (EMCO), the advisory body of the Chilean Ministry of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other governments. Now BiobioChile reports the government is considering the…
Dismantling a Prolific Cybercriminal Empire: REvil Arrests and Reemergence
John Fokker writes: We’ve recently seen reports that the REvil ransomware gang is back online after the January 2022 arrests of several its members by Russian authorities claiming to dismantle the group and the November 2021 arrests of two members by U.S. authorities. While it remains to be seen if this re-emergence of REvil includes…
British teenager, 18, denies creating computer virus that crashed hundreds of institutions when he was just 14
David O’Dornan and Paul Higgins report: A teenager today denied creating a computer virus which allegedly ‘crashed hundreds of financial institutions across the world when he was just 14 years old. Josh Maunder, now 18, from Abbey Park in Bangor, Co Down in Northern Ireland, entered not guilty pleas to each of the 21 charges against…
Leaked LockBit 3.0 builder used by ‘Bl00dy’ ransomware gang in attacks
Lawrence Abrams reports: The relatively new Bl00Dy Ransomware Gang has started to use a recently leaked LockBit ransomware builder in attacks against companies. Last week, the LockBit 3.0 ransomware builder was leaked on Twitter after the LockBit operator had a falling out with his developer. This builder allows anyone to build a fully functional encryptor and decryptor…
Hong Kong, Aoyuan Healthy Life Group hit by PT_Moisha ransomware group
Marco A. DeFelice has been looking into a number of new ransomware groups that have recently poked their heads out. PT_Moisha is one of the new names, but they tell Marco they are an old group: Aoyuan Healthy Life Group, with operational offices also in Sydney in Australia and in Toronto and Vancouver in Canada, is…