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Conti — one of the most ruthless and successful Russian ransomware groups — publicly declared during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic that it would refrain from targeting healthcare providers. But new information confirms this pledge was always a lie, and that Conti has launched more than 200 attacks against hospitals and other healthcare facilities since first surfacing in 2018 under the name “Ryuk.”

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Conti ransomware offshoot targets Russian organizations

April 12, 2022 0 Comments conti, conti ransomware, nb65, network battalion 65, Ransomware, roscosmos, tensor, ufa scientific center of the russian academy of science

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 11:53:03 +0000

A new Conti variant was explicitly designed to target Russian organizations.

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The Ransomware Threat Intelligence Center

March 17, 2022 0 Comments active adversary, astrolocker, atom silo, avaddon, avos locker, black kingdom, blackmatter, conti, cring, darkside, dearcry, dharma, egregor, entropy, epsilon red, featured, gandcrab, karma, lockbit, lockfile, maze, memento, midas, nefilim, netwalker, python, ragnar locker, ragnarok, Ransomware, revil, robbinhood, ryuk, SamSam, security operations, snatch, sophos threat report, WannaCry, wastedlocker

Credit to Author: Tilly Travers| Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:13:50 +0000

A collection of Sophos threat research articles and security operations reports related to new or prevalent ransomware groups from 2018 to the present. The content will be updated as new research is published

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Ransomware: February 2022 review

March 10, 2022 0 Comments avoslocker, blackbyte, blackcat, clop, conti, cuba, hivelekas, lockbit, locker, quantum, ragnar, ransomexx, Ransomware, snatch, suncrypts, threat intelligence

Credit to Author: Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 17:59:42 +0000

Get the latest information on ransomware trends with our monthly review.

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A week in security (February 28 – March 6)

March 7, 2022 0 Comments A week in security, chrome 99, Cisco, conti, crisis text line, deepfakes, hermeticwiper, malware, meta, NVIDIA, Podcast, Ransomware, toyota, trickbot, ukraine

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2022 11:05:36 +0000

The most important and interesting security stories from the last seven days.

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Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part III: Weaponry

March 4, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alarm, bentley, bio, bloodrush, chainalysis, cobalt strike, conti, grant, kaktus, lemans corporation, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pin, Ransomware, reshaev, revers, salamandra, skippy, the spaniard, tramp, trickbotleaks, trump

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2022 20:20:29 +0000

Part I of this series examined newly-leaked internal chats from the Conti ransomware group, and how the crime gang dealt with its own internal breaches. Part II explored what it’s like to be an employee of Conti’s sprawling organization. Today’s Part III looks at how Conti abused a panoply of popular commercial security services to undermine the security of their targets, as well as how the team’s leaders strategized for the upper hand in ransom negotiations with victims.

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Countermeasures and observability key to defending against attackers trying to buy security products

March 4, 2022 0 Comments conti, featured, Ransomware, security operations, sophos security

Credit to Author: Craig Jones| Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2022 17:42:45 +0000

The leak of Conti ransomware’s internal chat logs revealed the attackers tried to buy security software so they could figure out how to bypass it and avoid detection