The Maze Team attackers continue to announce more of their ransomware victims that have not complied with their ransom demands, and they continue to dump data from those who do not pay them. When I checked their site again today, I noticed that they had announced that they have dumped all their files on the…
Category: Of Note
The average ransom demand for a REvil ransomware infection is a whopping $260,000
Catalin Cimpanu reports: .. in a report published today and shared with ZDNet, the security team at KPN, a Dutch telecommunications provider, said it was able to sinkhole and intercept the communications between REvil-infected computers and the REvil ransomware’s command-and-control (C&C) servers. KPN researchers say this allowed them to obtain unique insights into the operations of the…
Magecart gang arrested in Indonesia
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Interpol and Indonesian police have arrested three men on suspicion of being part of a cybercrime group engaged in Magecart attacks. […] The suspects were only identified by their initials: ANF (27 years), K (35 years), and N (23 years), from he regions of Jakarta and Yogyakarta. Read more on ZDNet.
Chasing Soccer’s Secrets, Hacker Found Those of Africa’s Richest Woman, Too
Tariq Panja reports: The Portuguese fan was looking for soccer’s secrets when he began hacking into the legal and financial networks supporting the game’s multibillion-dollar industry five years ago. For years, he plundered internal documents and secret agreements, unmasking questionable practices — and even criminality — by lawyers and players and teams, and then published…
FBI breach notice rules lauded by states, but some want more
Derek B. Johnson reports: A new FBI policy raises the question about who are the true victims of election systems breaches: local officials who supervise elections or the voters and candidates who depend on a trustworthy ballot? Under a recent policy change, the FBI will notify states if local election systems are hacked, but some…
Russian National Pleads Guilty to Running Online Criminal Marketplace
Press release from DOJ, January 23. Previous coverage on this threat actor on this site can be found here and here. Russian National Pleads Guilty to Running Online Criminal Marketplace A Russian national pleaded guilty today to charges related to his operation of two websites devoted to the facilitation of payment card fraud, computer hacking…