Tag: ransom
Boeing Discloses $200M Ransomware Attempt – May 13th
Boeing made a significant disclosure: The LockBit ransomware group targeted the company, which demanded a staggering $200M extortion payment. Boeing did not pay LockBit a ransom despite 43 GB of company data leaked on the ransomware group's website in November 2023. Boeing is now in contact with the FBI to mitigate the breach.
Ransomware is evolving into protection rackets
There is growing evidence that ransomware gangs are rapidly evolving into full-scale protection rackets. Ransomware gangs are increasingly returning to fleece their victims multiple times, even after the ransom has been paid. “Despite most victims agreeing to pay the ransom, less than half who did get their systems and data back uncorrupted. And most were breached again within a year,” says security company Cybereason’s report Ransomware: the true cost to business 2024. All of the 1008 enterprise IT professionals surveyed had been breached at least once in the past 24 months. While 84 percent paid the ‘ransom’, only 47 percent got their data and services back intact. But this new generation of ransomware attacks frequently do not stop – even once the ransom is paid. An astonishing 78 percent were breached again and 63 percent were asked to pay more the second time. In 36 percent of the cases, the second attack was carried out by the same gang that conducted the first.
LockBit threatens another major data leakage – October 11th
The LockBit ransomware gang has threatened to release data stolen from CDW Corp, a major IT reseller and services provider in the US, UK, and Canada after discussions over the ransom fee for the data commenced. The notorious ransomware gang demanded $80 million, with CDW offering just $1.1 million as their ransom counteroffer.
Upbit announces 159k hack attempts in Q1 – October 9th
Crypto exchange server Upbit has announced it was targeted by hackers 159,000 times during the first quarter of this year. This is more than double the number of hacker attacks it experienced in the same period last year. The figures were released by Dunamu, the company that operates Upbit.
Dark web ads are seeing a massive surge – September 25th
There has been a surge of advertisements on the dark web this year, with over 700 adverts advertising Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks through the Internet of Things (IoT) devices having been identified. The cost of employing the sinister DDoS attack services ranges from $20 per day to $1 000 per month, depending on the amount of protection the target has.
Lazarus equips two new remote access trojan weapons – September 22nd
The Lazarus group is using two new remote access trojans to target health systems' ManageEngine vulnerabilities. The group recently made headlines after targeting healthcare entities in Europe and the US and has since evolved its malware to exploit the CVE-2022047966 vulnerability in the ManageEngine setup, allowing for remote code execution. Its new RAT variants, QuiteRAT and CollectionRAT, allow for the attacker to run arbitrary commands, among other capabilities.
LinkedIn accounts held for ransom in ongoing campaign
LinkedIn has become a byword for respectability and overall security. But all that has started to change, with the growing attention of cybercriminal gangs, firstly with false flags and, more recently, directly taking control of targeted individual LinkedIn accounts.