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CISA issues alert with South Korean government about DPRK’s ransomware antics

February 13, 2023 admin andariel, APT, cisa, conti, democratic people’s republic of korea, dprk, EK, EternalBlue, exploit kit, h0lygh0st, Lazarus Group, magniber, magnitude exploit kit, maui, news, NORTH KOREA, plutonium, ransomware, silent chollima, stonefly, WannaCry

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The tactics of North Korean-sponsored ransomware cyberattacks against the healthcare sector and other vital infrastructure are highlighted in the latest #StopRansomware alert.

Kaspersky Security

The chronicle of WannaCry worm | Kaspersky official blog

August 23, 2022 admin Business, Chronicle, cryptomalware, enterprise, extortion, ransomware, SMB, WannaCry

Credit to Author: Enoch Root| Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 01:19:29 +0000

The story of the unprecedented Wannacry ransomware epidemic in May 2017.

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

Kaspersky Security

CVE-2020-0796: New vulnerability in SMB protocol

March 17, 2020 admin Business, microsoft, news, SMB, Threats, vulnerabilities, WannaCry

Credit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 03:05:51 +0000

Microsoft has released a patch for newly discovered critical vulnerability CVE-2020-0796 in the network protocol SMB 3.1.1.

MalwareBytes Security

A decade in cybersecurity fails: the top breaches, threats, and ‘whoopsies’ of the 2010s

December 19, 2019 admin ashley madison, Ashley Madison hack, awareness, badrabbit, cambridge analytica, cryptolocker, cryptolocker ransomware, Data Privacy, Edward Snowden, emotet, Exploits, Facebook, Hacktivism, Mat Honan, NotPetya, NSA, nsa spying, nsa surveillance, NSA tools, playstation breach, playstation hack, ransomware, ryuk, Ryuk Ransomware, security fails, Shadow Brokers, social media, Sony, sony pictures hack, SURVEILLANCE, target breach, target hack, trickbot, triple threat, WannaCry

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:03:33 +0000

As the 2010s come to a close, we take a snarky walk down memory lane, listing the craziest, most impactful, or simply just awful cybersecurity fails of the decade.

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Independent Krebs

Study: Ransomware, Data Breaches at Hospitals tied to Uptick in Fatal Heart Attacks

November 7, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, department of health and human services, HHS, leo scanlon, owen graduate school of management, PBS, The Coming Storm, the new england journal of medicine, vanderbilt university, WannaCry

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 19:48:03 +0000

Hospitals that have been hit by a data breach or ransomware attack can expect to see an increase in the death rate among heart patients in the following months or years because of cybersecurity remediation efforts, a new study posits. Health industry experts say the findings should prompt a larger review of how security — or the lack thereof — may be impacting patient outcomes.

Security Sophos

WannaCry mutiert vom aggressiven Infekt zum fragwürdigen Impfstoff

October 7, 2019 admin ransomware, security news, Security Tips, WannaCry

Credit to Author: Jörg Schindler| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:01:10 +0000

Die Beute bleibt die gleiche. Aber das Jagdverhalten ändert sich. Der neueste Report von Sophos „WannaCry Aftershock“ gibt einen Überblick über die WannaCry Schadsoftware, die es mit einer weltweiten Angriffswelle am 12. Mai 2017 zu einiger Bekanntheit geschafft hat. Die Analysen der Sophos-Forscher zeigen, dass WannaCry weiterhin aktiv ist, mit Millionen versuchten Neuinfizierungen jeden Monat. […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/dY6xpHhxr5E” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Kaspersky Security

Smominru botnet infects 4,700 new PCs daily

October 3, 2019 admin Botnet, credentials, cryptominers, data theft, EternalBlue, news, NotPetya, smominru, Threats, WannaCry, windows

Credit to Author: Marina Mash| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:37:51 +0000

The botnet generally propagates through EternalBlue, the same vulnerability that made the WannaCry and NotPetya outbreaks possible.

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