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Meanwhile, in a separate survey, 80 percent of organizations that paid the ransom said they were hit by a second attack. Ransomware is on the rise, but what toll does it take on the real world? Threatpost set out to answer that question in an exclusive poll aimed at taking . . . Read more
Hank Schless, senior manager of security solutions at Lookout, notes basic steps that organizations can take to protect themselves as ransomware gangs get smarter. If you feel like you’ve read a lot about ransomware in recent months, it’s because these attacks have indeed intensified. In 2020, ransomware attacks surged by . . . Read more
Ransomware group releases decryptors for nearly 3,000 victims, forfeiting millions in payouts. Ransomware group Avaddon has decided to shutter its criminal enterprise after landing in the crosshairs of law-enforcement agencies in the U.S. and Australia. Avaddon, a prolific ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) provider, released its decryption keys to BleepingComputer — 2,934 . . . Read more
SolarMarker makers are using SEO poisoning, stuffing thousands of PDFs with tens of thousands of pages full of SEO keywords & links to redirect to the malware. The pushers behind the SolarMarker backdoor malware are flooding the web with PDFs stuffed with keywords and links that redirect to the password-stealing, . . . Read more
An analysis of the campaign revealed Cyberium, an active Mirai-variant malware hosting site. A variant of the Mirai botnet called Moobot saw a big spike in activity recently, with researchers picking up widespread scanning in their telemetry for a known vulnerability in Tenda routers. It turns out that it was . . . Read more
CD Projekt Red confirmed that employee and game-related data appears to be floating around the cyber-underground, four months after a hack on the Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 developer. New data from the February hack of CD Projekt Red, the videogame-development company behind Cyberpunk 2077 and the Witcher series, is circulating . . . Read more
Airlines are warned to scour networks for traces of the campaign, likely the work of APT41, lurking in networks. A monster cyberattack on SITA, a global IT provider for 90 percent of the world’s airline industry, is slowly unfurling to reveal the largest supply-chain attack on the airline industry in . . . Read more
The desktop conferencing IoT gadget allows remote attackers to install all kinds of malware and move laterally to other parts of enterprise networks. The STEM Audio Table conference-room speaker has a security vulnerability that would allow unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) as root – paving the way for eavesdropping on . . . Read more
Emerging malware is lurking in Steam profile images. Look out for SteamHide, an emerging loader malware that disguises itself inside profile images on the gaming platform Steam, which researchers think is being developed for a wide-scale campaign. Steam’s most recent data said the platform has more than 20 million users . . . Read more
The decision to pay the ransom demanded by the cybercriminal group was to avoid any further issues or potential problems for its customers, according to the company’s CEO. JBS Foods paid the equivalent of $11 million in ransom after a cyber-attack that forced the company to shut down some operations . . . Read more