A week in security (May 2 – 8)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 10:20:30 +0000

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

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FBI warns food and agriculture to brace for seasonal ransomware attacks

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:48:18 +0000

For the second time, the FBI has warned the food and agriculture sector about the risk of ransomware attacks.

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US warns of APT groups that can “gain full system access” to some industrial control systems

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:55:22 +0000

Federal agencies have discovered tools created by a nation-state actor to compromise US critical infrastructure.

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The Ransomware Threat Intelligence Center

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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“We absolutely do not care about you”: Sugar ransomware targets individuals

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 14:04:51 +0000

They call it Sugar ransomware, but it’s not sweet in any way.

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Who Wrote the ALPHV/BlackCat Ransomware Strain?

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 13:18:36 +0000

In December 2021, researchers discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service named ALPHV (a.k.a. “BlackCat”), considered to be the first professional cybercrime group to create and use a ransomware strain in the Rust programming language. In this post, we’ll explore some of the clues left behind by the developer who was reputedly hired to code the ransomware variant.

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