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Alleged Co-Founder of Garantex Arrested in India

March 11, 2025 0 Comments aleksandr mira serda, aleksej besciokov, elliptic, garantex, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Ransomware, u.s. department of justice, U.S. Secret Service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:49:02 +0000

Authorities in India today arrested the alleged co-founder of Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.S. government in 2022 for facilitating tens of billions of dollars in money laundering by transnational criminal and cybercriminal organizations. Sources close to the investigation told KrebsOnSecurity the Lithuanian national Aleksej Besciokov, 46, was apprehended while vacationing on the coast of India with his family.

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Notorious Malware, Spam Host “Prospero” Moves to Kaspersky Lab

February 28, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alfa bank, bearhost, gootloader, interisle consulting group, intrinsec, kaspersky lab, kentik, Ne'er-Do-Well News, prospero ooo, Ransomware, securehost, silent push, SocGholish, spamhaus, The Coming Storm, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:14:58 +0000

One of the most notorious providers of abuse-friendly “bulletproof” web hosting for cybercriminals has started routing its operations through networks run by the Russian antivirus and security firm Kaspersky Lab, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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UnitedHealth almost doubles victim numbers from massive Change Healthcare data breach

January 27, 2025 0 Comments change helathcare, data breach, news, Privacy, Ransomware, unitedhealth

UnitedHealth now estimates that 190 million people were affected by the massive Change Healthcare data breach nearly a year ago.

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BayMark Health Services sends breach notifications after ransomware attack

January 10, 2025 0 Comments baymark, data breach, news, Privacy, ransomhub, Ransomware

BayMark Health Services, Inc. notified an unknown number of patients that attackers stole their personal and health information.

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Keeping it real: Sophos and the 2024 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations: Enterprise

December 11, 2024 0 Comments featured, mitre, mitre att&ck, Ransomware, sophos x-ops, threat research

Credit to Author: Michael Wood| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:35:22 +0000

Sophos X-Ops looks at the realism of this year’s MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations

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Medical testing company LifeLabs failed to protect customer data, report finds

November 27, 2024 0 Comments lifelabs, medical data, news, PII, Privacy, Ransomware

LifeLabs managed to hold up a report about a ransomware incident in court for four years. It’s now been published.

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Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier

November 26, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, AT&T, boxfan, buttholio, connor riley moucka, cyb3rph4nt0m, DDoS-for-hire, john erin binns, judische, kiberphant0m, naver, Ne'er-Do-Well News, proman557, Ransomware, reverseshell, shi-bot, snowflake, south korea, telekomterrorist, The Coming Storm, vars_secc, verizon, waifu

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:45:48 +0000

Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake, but a third suspect — a prolific hacker known as Kiberphant0m — remains at large and continues to publicly extort victims. However, this person’s identity may not remain a secret for long: A careful review of Kiberphant0m’s daily chats across multiple cybercrime personas suggests they are a U.S. Army soldier who is or was recently stationed in South Korea.

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Ransomware-Gruppen erhöhen Druck auf Zahlungsunwillige

October 30, 2024 0 Comments featured, Ransomware, threat research

Credit to Author: Jörg Schindler| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 05:53:48 +0000

Sophos beschreibt im neuen Dark-Web-Report “Turning the Screws: The Pressure Tactics of Ransomware Gangs” detailliert, wie Cyberkriminelle gestohlene Daten als Mittel einsetzen, um den Druck auf zahlungsunwillige Zielpersonen zu erhöhen. Zu den Druckmitteln gehören die Weitergabe von Kontaktdaten, das Veröffentlichen von Informationen über Familienmitglieder von CEOs und Geschäftsinhabern oder die Drohung, Informationen über illegale Geschäftsaktivitäten, […]

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Microsoft Threat Intelligence healthcare ransomware report highlights need for collective industry action

October 24, 2024 0 Comments Ransomware

Credit to Author: Sherrod DeGrippo| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Healthcare organizations are an attractive target for ransomware attacks. Read our latest blog post to learn why and get strategies to protect yourself from cyberthreats.

The post Microsoft Threat Intelligence healthcare ransomware report highlights need for collective industry action appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

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