Octo Tempest crosses boundaries to facilitate extortion, encryption, and destruction

Credit to Author: Microsoft Incident Response and Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:30:00 +0000

Microsoft has been tracking activity related to the financially motivated threat actor Octo Tempest, whose evolving campaigns represent a growing concern for many organizations across multiple industries.

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Ransomware groups claim responsibility for double-attack on Yamaha

Categories: Business

Tags: ransomware

Tags: blackbyte

Tags: Akira

Tags: group

Tags: compromised

Tags: data

Tags: blackmail

Tags: extortion

Tags: attack

Tags: Yamaha

Tags: Canada

Tags: music

Tags: audio

We take a look at claims that Yamaha has been compromised by two unrelated ransomware groups.

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Ransomware making big money through “big game hunting”

Categories: Business

Tags: business

Tags: ransomware

Tags: crypto

Tags: cryptocurrency

Tags: digital

Tags: payment

Tags: extortion

Tags: gang

Tags: group

Tags: big game hunting

We take a look at reports that claim ransomware is making big money in 2023.

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Black Cat ransomware group wants $4.5m from Reddit or will leak stolen files

Categories: Business

Tags: reddit

Tags: ransom

Tags: black cat

Tags: ransomware

Tags: extortion

Tags: blackmail

Tags: data

Tags: leak

Tags: breach

We take a look at news that data stolen from Reddit may be leaked soon unless the site pays a cool $4.5m to keep it offline.

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Warning: Victims’ faces placed on explicit images in sextortion scam

Categories: Personal

Tags: sextortion

Tags: deepfake

Tags: FBI

Tags: blackmail

Tags: extortion

Tags: fake

Tags: fakes

Tags: synthetic

We take a look at some new developments in sextortion cases via a warning issued by the FBI.

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Sextortion “assistance” scammers con victims further

Categories: News

Tags: FBI

Tags: extortion

Tags: sextortion

Tags: crime

Tags: criminal

Tags: nude

Tags: nudes

Tags: photographs

Tags: images

Tags: video

Tags: photo

Tags: scam

Tags: payment

Tags: profit

Tags: assistance

Tags: help

We take a look at an FBI warning regarding for-profit entities making money from people targeted by sextortion attacks.

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“ViLE” members posed as police officers and extorted victims

Categories: News

Tags: Doxxers

Tags: doxxing

Tags: police

Tags: social media

Tags: extortion

Tags: data breach

Two individuals have been charged with being members of ViLE, a group of doxxers that even impersonated police officers to obtain personal information about their victims.

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