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BlackCat Ransomware Group Implodes After Apparent $22M Payment by Change Healthcare

March 5, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, alphv ransomware, blackcat ransomware, change healthcare, data breaches, dmitry smilyanets, emsisoft, fabian wosar, FBI, lockbit, NCA, optum, ramp, ransomware, Recorded Future, wired.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:22:56 +0000

There are indications that U.S. healthcare giant Change Healthcare has made a $22 million extortion payment to the infamous BlackCat ransomware group (a.k.a. “ALPHV”) as the company struggles to bring services back online amid a cyberattack that has disrupted prescription drug services nationwide for weeks. However, the cybercriminal who claims to have given BlackCat access to Change’s network says the crime gang cheated them out of their share of the ransom, and that they still have the sensitive data that Change reportedly paid the group to destroy. Meanwhile, the affiliate’s disclosure appears to have prompted BlackCat to cease operations entirely.

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Arrests in $400M SIM-Swap Tied to Heist at FTX?

February 1, 2024 admin 0ktapus, A Little Sunshine, alphv ransomware, Ars Technica, blackcat ransomware, carter rohn, cisa, data breaches, elliptic, emily hernandez, FBI, ftx, kroll, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nick bax, powell sim swapping crew, r$, robert powell, scattered spider, SIM swapping, tom robinson, unciphered

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:41:37 +0000

Three Americans were charged this week with stealing more than $400 million in a November 2022 SIM-swapping attack. The U.S. government did not name the victim organization, but there is every indication that the money was stolen from the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which had just filed for bankruptcy on that same day.

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BlackCat Ransomware Raises Ante After FBI Disruption

January 13, 2024 admin alphv ransomware, blackcat ransomware, deputy attorney general lisa o. monaco, FBI, Lawrence Abrams, Other, u.s. department of justice

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 22:49:43 +0000

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) disclosed today that it infiltrated the world’s second most prolific ransomware gang, a Russia-based criminal group known as ALPHV and BlackCat. The FBI said it seized the gang’s darknet website, and released a decryption tool that hundreds of victim companies can use to recover systems. Meanwhile, BlackCat responded by briefly “unseizing” its darknet site with a message promising 90 percent commissions for affiliates who continue to work with the crime group, and open season on everything from hospitals to nuclear power plants.

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ALPHV squeezes victim with dedicated leak site for employees and customers

June 17, 2022 admin alphav, alphav ransomware, blackcat, blackcat ransomware, brett callow, darkside, darkside ransomware, noberus, noberus ransomware, ransomware, rust

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 18:01:31 +0000

ALPHV, also known as BlackCat, created a leak site on the regular web, betting it can squeeze money out of victims faster than a dark web site.

The post ALPHV squeezes victim with dedicated leak site for employees and customers appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Ransomware Group Debuts Searchable Victim Data

June 14, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, alphv ransomware, blackcat ransomware, brett callow, emsisoft, ransomware, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 19:53:12 +0000

Cybercrime groups that specialize in stealing corporate data and demanding a ransom not to publish it have tried countless approaches to shaming their victims into paying. The latest innovation in ratcheting up the heat comes from the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group, which has traditionally published any stolen victim data on the Dark Web. Today, however, the group began publishing individual victim websites on the public Internet, with the leaked data made available in an easily searchable form.

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Who Wrote the ALPHV/BlackCat Ransomware Strain?

February 2, 2022 admin @cookiedays, A Little Sunshine, alphv ransomware, binrs, blackcat ransomware, blackmatter, Breadcrumbs, Catalin Cimpanu, darkside, duckerman, duckermanit, Flashpoint, jason hill, Ne'er-Do-Well News, paul roberts, ramp, Recorded Future, reversinglabs, rEvil, sergey duck, sergey kryakov, sergey penchikov, smiseo, the record, tox, varonis, ybcat

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.