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The Zloader botnet is a malware as a service provider for a few notorious ransomware gangs. But now it has taken a serious blow to its infrastructure.

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Zloader, another botnet bites the dust

April 14, 2022 admin blackmatter, Botnet, botnets, darkside, dcu, dga, microsoft, ryuk, sinkhole, Zloader

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 11:41:19 +0000

The Zloader botnet is a malware as a service provider for a few notorious ransomware gangs. But now it has taken a serious blow to its infrastructure.

The post Zloader, another botnet bites the dust appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Security Sophos

The Ransomware Threat Intelligence Center

March 17, 2022 admin active adversary, astrolocker, atom silo, avaddon, avos locker, black kingdom, blackmatter, conti, cring, darkside, dearcry, dharma, egregor, entropy, epsilon red, Featured, gandcrab, karma, lockbit, lockfile, maze, memento, Midas, nefilim, netwalker, python, ragnar locker, ragnarok, ransomware, rEvil, robbinhood, ryuk, SamSam, security operations, snatch, sophos threat report, WannaCry, wastedlocker

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

Independent Krebs

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.