Brian Krebs reports: Prosecutors in Finland this week commenced their criminal trial against Julius Kivimäki, a 26-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy practice and thousands of its patients. In a 2,200-page report, Finnish authorities laid out how they connected the extortion spree to Kivimäki, a notorious hacker who was convicted…
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NoEscape gang adds two more medical entities to their leak site
The NoEscape ransomware gang claims to have attacked two more medical entities. The first one is Southeastern Orthopaedic Specialists, P.A. in North Carolina. According to the threat actors, the network was locked on October 25, and 3 GB of files were exfiltrated. From the expanded listing (not shown here), it also appears that Southeastern…
UK: Nearly £2 million of stolen cryptocurrency to be paid back to victims
An interesting press release from the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU): Around £1.9 million worth of stolen cryptocurrency is to be paid back to victims of theft as a result of work by the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU). On 27 January this year, 40-year-old Wybo Wiersma, of Het Weike, Goredijk,…
MOVEit hackers leverage new zero-day bug to breach organizations (CVE-2023-47246)
Helga Labus reports: A critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-47246) in the SysAid IT support and management software solution is being exploited by Lace Tempest, a ransomware affiliate known for deploying Cl0p ransomware. […] The (limited) attacks were first spotted by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team, and they notified Israeli software maker SysAid about them on November…
OFAC Sanctions Russian National Ekaterina Zhdanova for Using Cryptocurrency to Launder Money on Behalf of Russian Elites and Ransomware Groups
The Chainanalysis Team writes: On November 3, 2023, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Russian national Ekaterina Zhdanova for using cryptocurrency to launder money on behalf of Russian elites, ransomware groups, and other bad actors. Below, we’ll explore the three Bitcoin addresses included in OFAC’s designation that she used…
United States Recovers $2.4 Million Obtained In Business Email Compromise
October 31, 2023 Orlando, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that the United States has civilly forfeited $2,462,000 in proceeds obtained from a wire fraud scheme that involved the takeover of a business email account. The forfeited funds are being returned to the fraud victim. According to court documents, the victim, Company…