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Ransomware Group Cooperation: A Growing Challenge in the Fight Against Cybercrime

Posted on November 22, 2024 by Dissent

Marco A. De Felice (aka @amvinfe) of SuspectFile and DataBreaches have often shared information with each other about threat actors or incidents, including what may appear to be second attacks or maybe just a re-listing of a previous attack. He has recently taken a look at listings of data claimed by two or more groups to…

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Attackers Targeting VPNs Account for 28.7 Percent of Ransomware Incidents in Q3 According to Corvus Insurance Cyber Threat Report

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Dissent

A press release from Corvus Insurance has some statistics worth mulling over:  Corvus Insurance, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Travelers Companies, Inc., today released its Q3 2024 Cyber Threat Report, The Ransomware Ecosystem is Increasingly Distributed, which showed that attackers leveraging virtual private network (VPN) vulnerabilities and weak passwords for initial access contributed to nearly 30% of…

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Hibernation is Over? Akira Ransomware: Published Over 30 New Victims on their DLS (updated)

Posted on November 20, 2024November 20, 2024 by Dissent

Adi Bleih reports: The Akira ransomware group has been active since March 2023, targeting diverse industries across North America, the UK, and Australia. Operating as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, Akira employs a double-extortion strategy by stealing sensitive data before encrypting it. According to their leak site, the group claims to have compromised over 350 organizations….

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Thames Water’s IT ‘falling apart’ and is hit by cyber-attacks, sources claim

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Dissent

Anna Isaac reports: “The software we use is older than me, and some of the hardware is older than my dad,” says Siddharth*. He is one of a team fighting a daily battle to sustain ancient IT infrastructure at Thames Water. Sometimes the defences are breached. Thames, the UK’s largest water and waste treatment company,…

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Top White House cyber official urges Trump to focus on ransomware, China

Posted on November 14, 2024 by Dissent

Jonathan Grieg reports: Anne Neuberger, the U.S. deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technologies, spoke at Columbia University on Wednesday and was asked about what pressing cyber challenges the new administration should tackle in its first 100 days. “I’m going to put them into three bins. China, criminal groups like ransomware actors, and…

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Idaho man who hacked medical entities and made vile threats sentenced to 10 years in prison (1)

Posted on November 13, 2024December 5, 2024 by Dissent

An Idaho man who worked as an Information Technology Specialist for Ada County by day has been sentenced to prison for hacking medical offices and threatening his victims if they didn’t pay his ransom demands. Background of the Case In July 2017, DataBreaches reported a hacking incident with a ransom demand where the description of…

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