Researchers Uncover Iranian State-Sponsored Ransomware Operation

Crypto hacker offered reward after $600m heist

DarkSide Ransomware gang was behind the recent Colonial Pipeline cyberattack however it is unclear who is behind the seizure of DarkSide’s cyberinfrastructure. The DarkSide ransomware cybercriminals group involved in the six-day outage at Colonial Pipeline last week that led to fuel shortages and price spikes across the United States is calling it quits. The crime…

Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , DDoS Protection NZ CERT: Intermittent Disruptions at Financial Organizations Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • September 8, 2021     CERT NZ warns of DDoS attack. (Source: CERT NZ) New Zealand’s Computer Emergency Response Team, or CERT, says it is aware of ongoing distributed denial-of-service attacks that have disrupted services at…

Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management , Incident & Breach Response Faster Detection Is Good News, But More Speed Still Needed, Mandiant Reports Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • May 3, 2021     Source: FireEye Mandiant “Dwell time,” which refers to how long hackers hang out in an organization’s network before being discovered,…

Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service , Email Security & Protection Attackers Co-Opted Malware for Data Exfiltration and Ransom, Group-IB Finds Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • May 8, 2021     Attackers co-opted the Hancitor malware downloader and recently used it to deliver Cuba ransomware as part of an email spam campaign for data exfiltration and ransom extortion,…