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Necurs bot well known for biggest single malware spam campaigns contains nearly 5 million infected bots, of which one million active each day. In the past, it is responsible for spreading various ransomware like JAFF Ransomware, banking trojan Trickbot now it is distributing Scarab Ransomware. Security researchers from F-Secure, Forcepoint, MalwareHunterTeam and myonlinesecurity spotted Necurs evolving […]
The U.S Department of Homeland Security, along with the FB, has come out with a statement that hackers who reportedly have ties with North Korea could still gain backdoor access to many government systems/networks and business networks. The Guardian reports-“US authorities have warned that malware developed in North Korea is still lurking in many computer […]
Another wiper malware posing as a ransomware is targeting German businesses under the guise of fake job applicants inquiring about openings. Ordinypt was discovered by ID-Ransomware coder Michael Gillespie when one of the malware’s ransom notes was uploaded to his firm’s site. Another sample was spotted targeting German users by G Data security researcher Karsten Hahn, according to Bleeping Computer. The malware is […]
Post the WannaCry outbreak, the term ransomware has become quite familiar, even to the layman. Today, it’s like ransomware here there and everywhere! It’s like every now and then we hear of ransomware outbreaks, big and small. The HackerCombat team has been keeping track of ransomware attacks all across the globe. Our analysts have been […]
For several months Cybereason has been following the concerning rise of ONI, a family of ransomware involved in targeted attacks against Japanese companies. We suspect that the ONI ransomware was used as a wiper to cover up an elaborate hacking operation. These targeted attacks lasted between three to nine months and all ended with an […]
With the rise of ransomware attacks like WannaCry, Petya, and Bad Rabbit, Windows 10 Fall Creators Update has brought “Controlled Folder Access” which can stop ransomware exploits in a computer by blocking unauthorized access to folders. Controlled Folder Acess comes as a part of Windows Defender Exploit Guard and blocks malicious executable files, scripts, and DLLs from accessing […]
A new widespread Bad Rabbit ransomware attack is spreading like wildfire around Europe and has already affected over 200 major organizations, primarily in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and Germany, in the past few hours. Called “Bad Rabbit ransomware”, it is reported as a new attack against specific Petya ransomware corporate networks, which requires 0.05 Bitcoins (~ […]
A New ransomware family called “Bad Rabbit” rapidly spreading across the Eastern European countries affecting government and private agencies including Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Turkey. Bad Rabbit is a previously unknown ransomware family and it is distributing mostly via drive-by attacks using Adobe Flash player and no Exploit were used by this Bad Rabbit ransomware. Drive-by Attacks […]
A new ransomware outbreak today and has hit some major infrastructure in Ukraine including Kiev metro. Here are some of the details about this new variant. Drive-by download via watering hole on popular sites One of the distribution method of Bad Rabbit is via drive-by download. Some popular websites are compromised and have JavaScript injected in […]
Microsoft explains how its next-gen security can protect files from being encrypted by ransomware extortionists. The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is rolling out now with a security feature that can prevent ransomware from encrypting your files.With Microsoft making headway on the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update rollout, the new anti-ransomware feature, called Controlled folder access, is […]
A new ransomware is being distributed by the Magnitude exploit kit: Magniber (detected by Trend Micro as RANSOM_MAGNIBER.A and TROJ.Win32.TRX.XXPE002FF019), which we found targeting South Korea via malvertisements on attacker-owned domains/sites. The development in Magnitude’s activity is notable not only because it eschewed Cerber—its usual ransomware payload—in favor of Magniber. Magnitude now also appears to have become […]
A new report from NetDiligence has found that an aggregated total breach of cyber even cost is US$394,000, which an average company’s loss could be around US$3.2 million NetDiligence, a provider of Cyber Risk readiness and response services, outlined the figures in its seventh annual 2017 Cyber Claims Study, released earlier this week. The study […]
Appeal of ransomware sees sales rise from $250,000 in 2016 to over $6m in 2017 – and some ransomware sellers are now pocketing a salary of over $100,000 a year. The total value of ransomware sales on dark web market places has rocketed from $250,000 to over $6m in just a year as demand for the file-encrypting […]
UK’s National Cyber Security Centre states that the WannaCry ransomware was the biggest test of the year. The NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre), which was founded last year, has made this observation in its first annual review. The NCSC was launched in October 2016 with an objective to help UK’s “…critical services from cyber attacks, […]
A few months ago, two ransomware scams made news for asking users to play video games in order to get their files back. One of them asked users to play Japanese game while the second one asked users to play “click me” game. Now, a similar but a perverted kind of ransomware attack has hit […]
Why do people write ransomware? It’s mostly to rope in cash from helpless victims whom they target. But, there are some unique kind of ransomware which, instead of money or bitcoin, want something else. On Thursday, MalwareHunterTeam researchers found a malware called nRansomware. What’s different about this ransomware is that it wants your nude snaps. Strange, […]
For years, cybercriminals have been extorting victims by locking their computers with malware. The hackers promise to give the victim their files back as long as they fork over the cryptocurrency—typically Bitcoin—within the stipulated time limit. Now, someone has added a new, perverse twist to this tried and tested scheme: demanding naked photographs instead of Bitcoin. […]
Administrators of various underground hacking forums hosted on both the public Internet and Dark Web are having serious discussions about the ethics of allowing the sale of ransomware via their platforms. According to research by threat intelligence firms Anomali and Flashpoint, shared with Bleeping Computer before publication, several such discussions have taken place on these […]
Locky Ransomware has a piece of a history of going silent and growing back all of a sudden.Security experts at Appriver detected this new campaign. In span of 24 hours over 23 million messages sent out in the attack, which makes it one of the biggest malware campaign in latter half of 2017. Locky Ransomware […]
Several hospitals part of the NHS Lanarkshire board were hit on Friday by a version of the Bit Paymer ransomware. The NHS Lanarkshire board includes hospitals such as Hairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride, Monklands Hospital in Airdrie and Wishaw General Hospital. Affected systems fixed over the weekend The infection took root on late Friday, August […]
A New Emerging Ransomware Attack called “Defray” Distributing through Microsoft Word Document and send it through Phishing Email Campaign. According to this Defray Ransomware functionality and communication, potentially targeting Healthcare and Education industries. Defray Ransomware mainly Targeting geographic location is UK and US where it can target Manufacturing and Technology industries as well. Defray Name selected and Named […]