Contrary to ‘popular opinion,’ in which most of the security community feels that companies should never ever pay a ransomware ransom, my perspective on ransomware is that sometimes it is the only option and companies should pay up. Ransomware attacks exponentially increased throughout 2020, largely because of a rise in cybercrime due to the global pandemic. Ransomware operators have been…
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The rapid and recent rise of cyber threat actor group Indonesian Cyber Jawa represents a pivot within the Indonesian cyber underground towards a more sophisticated attack toolkit from a relatively underrepresented underground criminal faction. The group is concentrating its defacement efforts on online retailers while simultaneously attempting to defraud targets in the same business vertical.
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Vigilante wishes to highlight a threat actor or threat actor group on an exclusive Russian-language Dark Web forum that is currently advertising the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) known as “Smaug”. Although this type service is not entirely new, the Smaug RaaS platform is a particularly attractive option for lower-tier or unskilled cyber criminals to enter the Ransomware threat space, increasing the proliferation…
Vigilante wishes to highlight two more ransomware groups that have adopted the Maze Team model of extorting their victims to pay: NetWalker and Ako. Under the Maze model, once the group has the victim’s data in its possession, it demands two separate ransoms; the first ransom amount is for providing a decryption key and the second is to delete all the data they copied and exfiltrated before locking up the victims’ files.
Vigilante warns that over the last few weeks threat actor group Maze Team is claiming to have attacked at least two insurance companies with ransomware and may be eyeing additional insurance industry victims.
Vigilante found several malicious campaigns emanating from threat actors in the underground economy, which are targeting Canadian citizens who qualify for economic relief from the COVID-19 pandemic under Canada’s Economic Response Plan.
During this extended period of social distancing filled with increased online activity, I can’t help but reflect on all the user data that has been created, stored, hacked, exposed, bought, shared and sold over the last 10 years. Read more here or Link to published article