Sodinokibi
Justice Dept. Claws Back $2.3M Paid by Colonial Pipeline to Ransomware Gang
The U.S. Department of Justice said today it has recovered $2.3 million worth of Bitcoin that Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware extortionists last month. The funds had been sent to DarkSide, a ...
Cybereason vs. REvil Ransomware
According to reports, meatpacking giant JBS was hit with a serious attack reportedly involving REvil ransomware, shutting down a good portion of the company’s production capabilities and threatening to create supply chain ...
Ransomware Trends: Six Notable Ransomware Attacks from 2021
The security community witnessed triple-digit growth in the number of publicly disclosed ransomware incidents in 2020. As noted in a previous blog post on Five Things You Need to Know About Ransomware ...
Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate
In a Twitter discussion last week on ransomware attacks, KrebsOnSecurity noted that virtually all ransomware strains have a built-in failsafe designed to cover the backsides of the malware purveyors: They simply will ...
Sodinokibi Ransomware Gang Extorts Apple Through Supply Chain Attack
The Sodinokibi ransomware gang is trying to extort Apple following an attack against one of the tech giant’s business partners. According to Bloomberg News, someone using the moniker “Unknown” announced on April ...
Black Kingdom Ransomware Jumps on the Exchange Express
When Microsoft announced that it discovered a state-sponsored threat group, Hafnium, was exploiting four separate zero-day vulnerabilities, the InfoSec community was already looking into their crystal ball to predict when other groups ...
Security Blueprints of Many Companies Leaked in Hack of Swedish Firm Gunnebo
In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. In August, ...
Stuck Between a Data Breach and a Ransom
2020 will be remembered for a whole host of reasons. Campfire stories will be told to grandchildren of when we all had to wear face masks, stand 2 meters apart and were ...
High-Profile Data Thefts Shine Spotlight on Dark Web
Recent ransomware threats leveled at President Trump, Lady Gaga and Madonna have raised awareness of the need to not only better secure data but also devoting more resources to determine what data ...
REvil Ransomware Gang Starts Auctioning Victim Data
The criminal group behind the REvil ransomware enterprise has begun auctioning off sensitive data stolen from companies hit by its malicious software. The move marks an escalation in tactics aimed at coercing ...
