U.S. Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:35:25 +0000

The U.S. government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot, a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. The international law enforcement operation involved seizing control over the botnet’s online infrastructure, and quietly removing the Qakbot malware from tens of thousands of infected Microsoft Windows computer systems.

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Hive! Hive! Hive! Ransomware site submerged by FBI

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Categories: Ransomware

Tags: DoJ

Tags: FBI

Tags: Europol

Tags: HIve

Tags: ransomware

Tags: RDP

Tags: Patch management

Tags: Vulnerability

Tags: phishing

The DoJ, FBI, and Europol have released details about a months-long international disruption campaign against the Hive ransomware group

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To settle with the DoJ, Uber must confess to a cover-up. And it did.

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 16:44:16 +0000

The 2016 Uber data breach affected the personal information of 57 million people. And then the company covered it all up.

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Twitter fined $150M after using 2FA phone numbers for marketing

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 12:27:05 +0000

Twitter is paying the price for using users’ security information for targeted advertising,

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Successful operations against Russian Sandworm and Strontium groups targeting Ukraine revealed

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 14:23:30 +0000

Two announcements in two days detail operations against GRU-controlled infrastructure

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