The Week In Ransomware – October 15th 2021 – Disrupting Ransoms This week, senior officials from over thirty countries held virtual conferences on disrupting ransomware operations and attacks. Russia and China were left out of these talks, even though there are signs that Russia has begun to crack down on cybercriminal activity in its country.
US links $5.2 billion Worth Of Bitcoin Transactions To Ransomware The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has identified roughly $5.2 billion worth of outgoing Bitcoin transactions likely tied to the top 10 most commonly reported ransomware variants. FinCEN identified 177 CVC (convertible virtual currency) wallet addresses used for ransomware-related payments after analyzing 2,184
Twitch Downplays This Month’s Hack, Says It Had Minimal Impact In an update regarding this month’s security incident, Twitch downplayed the breach saying that it had minimal impact and only affected a small number of users. “We’ve undergone a thorough review of the information included in the files exposed and are confident that it only
Russian Cybercrime Gang Targets Finance Firms With Stealthy Macros A new phishing campaign dubbed MirrorBlast is deploying weaponized Excel documents that are extremely difficult to detect to compromise financial service organizations The most notable feature of MirrorBlast is the low detection rates of the campaign’s malicious Excel documents by security software, putting firms that rely
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