A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. A threat actor is selling access to Facebook and Instagram’s Police Portal Threat actors breached Okta […]
A threat actor is selling access to Facebook and Instagram’s Police Portal used by law enforcement agencies to request data relating to users under investigation. Cyber security researcher Alon Gal, co-founder & CTO of Hudson Rock, first reported that a threat actor is selling access to Facebook and Instagram’s Police Portal. The portal allows law […]
A joint international law enforcement investigation led to the arrest of a malware developer who was involved in the Ragnar Locker ransomware operation. Yesterday we became aware of a joint law enforcement operation that led to the seizure of the Ragnar Locker ransomware’s infrastructure. The police on Thursday seized the Tor negotiation and data leak sites, group’s […]
An international law enforcement operation shuts down the infrastructure of the Ragnar Locker ransomware operation. Law enforcement from the US, Europe, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Spain, Netherlands, Czech Republic, and Latvia conducted a joint operation that led to the seizure of the Ragnar Locker ransomware’s infrastructure. The police on Thursday seized the Tor negotiation and […]
I’m proud to announce the release of the 11th edition of the ENISA Threat Landscape (ETL) on the state of the cybersecurity threat landscape. The Europen Agency for cybersecurity ENISA releases its ENISA Threat Landscape 2023 (ETL) report, which is the annual analysis of the state of the cybersecurity threat landscape. This is the 11th edition of the […]
What is the impact of ransomware on organizations? One employee’s mistake can cost a company millions of dollars. Studies show that human error is the root cause of more than 80% of all cyber breaches, whether malicious or unintended. The recent debilitating cyberattacks on casino and resort giants MGM and Caesars are no exception. How […]
Microsoft thwarted a large-scale hacking campaign carried out by Akira ransomware operators targeting an unknown industrial organization. Microsoft announced that its Microsoft Defender for Endpoint helped to block a large-scale hacking campaign carried out by Akira ransomware operators (tracked by Microsoft as Storm-1567) The attack took place in early June 2023 and aimed at an industrial engineering […]
Researchers uncovered an ongoing campaign abusing popular messaging platforms Skype and Teams to distribute the DarkGate malware. From July to September, researchers from Trend Micro observed a malicious campaign DarkGate campaign abusing instant messaging platforms to deliver a VBA loader script to victims. The threat actors abused popular messaging platforms such as Skype and Teams […]
The Alphv ransomware group added the Morrison Community Hospital to its dark web leak site. Threat actors continue to target hospitals. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group claims to have hacked the Morrison Community Hospital and added it to its dark web Tor leak site. The group claims to have stolen 5TB of patients’ and employee’s information, […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Lockbit ransomware gang demanded an 80 million ransom to CDW CISA warns of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations […]