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Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on the inner workings of the ransomware operation led by Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a Russian national who was indicted by the U.S. government earlier this year for his alleged role in launching thousands of attacks across the world. Matveev, who resides in Saint Petersburg and is known by the aliases […]
The threat actors behind the nascent Buhti ransomware have eschewed their custom payload in favor of leaked LockBit and Babuk ransomware families to strike Windows and Linux systems. “While the group doesn’t develop its own ransomware, it does utilize what appears to be one custom-developed tool, an information stealer designed to search for and archive […]
The latest leak by the Babuk ransomware gang contains 26GB worth of records. Last month, Hackread.com reported that the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) had become a victim of a ransomware attack. The government agency revealed that the Babuk Locker gang stole nearly 250 GB of unencrypted files from the department’s networks. On the […]
The group behind the ransomware attack is the Babuk Locker gang. The District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), the sole law enforcement agency in the whole district, is the latest victim of a ransomware attack. The high-profile government agency confirmed the news only after the Babuk Locker gang posted about stealing D.C. Police department’s […]