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The Week in Ransomware – January 7th 2022 – Watch Out for USB drives With the holidays these past two weeks, there have been only a few known ransomware attacks and little research released. At the end of December, a new enterprise-targeting ransomware operation called Night Sky was launched, but it is not very active so far.
SonicWall: Y2K22 Bug Hits Email Security, Firewall Products SonicWall has confirmed today that some of its Email Security and firewall products have been hit by the Y2K22 bug, causing message log updates and junk box failures starting with January 1st, 2022. The company says that email users and administrators will no longer be able to access the junk
FBI: Hackers Use BadUSB to Target Defense Firms with Ransomware The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned US companies in a recently updated flash alert that the financially motivated FIN7 cybercriminal group targeted the US defense industry with packages containing malicious USB devices to deploy ransomware. The attackers mailed packages containing ‘BadUSB’ or ‘Bad Beetle
FluBot Malware Now Targets Europe Posing as Flash Player App The widely distributed FluBot malware continues to evolve, with new campaigns distributing the malware as Flash Player and the developers adding new features. FluBot is an Android banking trojan that steals credentials by displaying overlay login forms against many banks worldwide. The smishing (SMS phishing)