Recent reports of Lockbit locker-based attacks against North European SMBs indicate that local crooks started using Lockbit locker variants. Executive Summary Incident Insights Recently, there has been a significant increase in ransomware attacks targeting companies in northern Europe. These attacks are being carried out using the LockBit locker, which is known to be in use […]
The BlackCat Ransomware group claims to have hacked SOLAR INDUSTRIES INDIA and to have stolen 2TB of “secret military data.” The BlackCat Ransomware gang added SOLAR INDUSTRIES INDIA to the list of victims published on its Tor leak site. The company is a globally recognised industrial explosives manufacturer, it provides complete blasting solutions, including packaged, […]
A source code repository allegedly stolen by a former employee of the Russian tech giant Yandex has been leaked online. A Yandex source code repository allegedly stolen by a former employee of the Russian IT giant has been leaked on a popular cybercrime forum. The announcement published on BreachForums includes a magnet link to the alleged […]
The leak site of the Hive ransomware gang was seized due to an international operation conducted by law enforcement in ten countries. The Tor leak site used by Hive ransomware operators has been seized as part of an international operation conducted by law enforcement in 10 countries. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation seized this site […]
Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) disclosed a data breach, the security may have exposed the data of 820K customers. Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) disclosed a data breach, the security incident may have affected the personal information of its 820,000 customers. “On December 28, 2022, Zacks learned that an unknown third-party had gained unauthorized access to certain […]
GoTo is notifying customers that its development environment was breached in November 2022, attackers stole customers’ backups and encryption key. GoTo, formerly LogMeIn Inc, is a flexible-work provider of software as a service (SaaS) and cloud-based remote work tools for collaboration and IT management, The company is warning customers that threat actors breached its development environment in November 2022 and stole encrypted […]
Researchers dismantled a sophisticated ad fraud scheme, dubbed VASTFLUX, that targeted more than 11 million devices. HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team dismantled a sophisticated ad fraud operation dubbed VASTFLUX. The name VASTFLUX comes from the evasion technique “fast flux” and VAST, the Digital Video Ad Serving Template that was abused by threat actors in this fraudulent scheme. The researchers […]
Video game developer and publisher Riot Games announced that it will delay the release of game patches after a security incident. Riot Games is an American video game developer, publisher and esports tournament organizer known for the creation of the popular games League of Legends and Valorant. Last week threat actors hacked the company’s systems in its development environment, Riot Games […]
Roaming Mantis threat actors were observed using a new variant of their mobile malware Wroba to hijack DNS settings of Wi-Fi routers. Researchers from Kaspersky observed Roaming Mantis threat actors using an updated variant of their mobile malware Wroba to compromise Wi-Fi routers and hijack DNS settings. Roaming Mantis surfaced in March 2018 when hacked routers in Japan to […]
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