The White House Is Deciding Whether to Support a Bureau of Cyber Statistics

3rd Party Risk Management , Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Software Vendor Quiet on Whether It Might Pay for REvil’s Full Decryption Tool Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • July 6, 2021     Screenshot of Kaseya’s remote IT management software VSA, which was compromised by ransomware attackers. (Source: Kaseya) Kaseya said late Monday that…

Threat actors are now installing a new ransomware called ‘DEARCRY’ after hacking into Microsoft Exchange servers using the recently disclosed ProxyLogon vulnerabilities. Since Microsoft revealed earlier this month that threat actors were compromising Microsoft Exchange servers using new zero-day ProxyLogon vulnerabilities, a significant concern has been when threat actors would use it to deploy ransomware….

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,…

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency , Cryptocurrency Fraud , Cybercrime Authorities Say Exchanges Allegedly Facilitate Money Laundering Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • August 14, 2021     U.S. dollars and other currency seized by Ukranian police this week from an alleged illegal cryptocurrency exchange (Source: Security Service of Ukraine) Ukrainian police this week shuttered a series of allegedly…

FBI Agents Secretly Deleted Web Shells From Hacked Microsoft Exchange Servers | IT Security News 14. April 2021 FBI agents executed a court-authorized cyber operation to delete malicious web shells from hundreds of previously hacked Microsoft Exchange servers in the United States, unbeknownst to their owners, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said Tuesday. Like…

San Francisco: In a big cyber attack, China-based threat actors hacked at least 30,000 organisations across the US, including government and commercial firms, by using Microsoft’s Exchange Server software to enter their networks. The espionage group is known to have exploited four vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server email software, which provided them access to email…