Darkside
Who Wrote the ALPHV/BlackCat Ransomware Strain?
In December 2021, researchers discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service named ALPHV (a.k.a. "BlackCat"), considered to be the first professional cybercrime group to create and use a ransomware strain in the Rust programming language ...
Ransomware as a Service: A Thriving Business for Hackers
Ransomware as a service has become quite a popular and profitable business for cybercriminals. These cybercriminals often collaborate with malware developers and carry out coordinated cyberattacks. This approach to a ransomware attack ...
At Request of U.S., Russia Rounds Up 14 REvil Ransomware Affiliates
The Russian government said today it arrested 14 people accused of working for "REvil," a particularly aggressive ransomware group that has extorted hundreds of millions of dollars from victim organizations. The Russian ...
Who is the Network Access Broker ‘Wazawaka?’
In a great many ransomware attacks, the criminals who pillage the victim's network are not the same crooks who gained the initial access to the victim organization. More commonly, the infected PC ...
Best of 2021 – DarkSide Ransomware Gang Struck Down — but by Whom?
DarkSide, hackers of the Colonial Pipeline, has hurriedly shut up shop. It claims that its servers and cryptocurrency balances have disappeared ...
What is Driving the Surge of Ransomware Attacks?
Some major ransomware attacks have dominated the headlines recently. Back in the beginning of May, for instance, the Colonial Pipeline Company suspended its daily transportation of 100 million gallons of fuel between ...
Nuspire Report Confirms Massive Spike in Ransomware Attacks
Nuspire, a provider of managed security services, published a report today that found a 55,239% increase in ransomware activity a few weeks prior to the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack conducted by DarkSide ...
Prevention is Better Than Cure: The Ransomware Evolution
Ransomware tactics have continued to evolve over the years, and remain a prominent threat to both SMBs and larger organisations. Particularly during the peak of COVID-19, research by IBM found that ransomware incidents ‘exploded’ ...
Busted: Taking Down Ransomware Attackers
Ransomware has been big news this year. In March, the REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware gang infected Acer and demanded $50 million—the highest ransom demand from any ransomware group up to that point. That same ...
Colonial Pipeline Hinted at Critical Infrastructure Threat
The long gas lines, panic buying and price spikes are fading into memory. But the ransomware attack in early May 2021 on the largest fuel pipeline in the U.S. must continue to ...
