The Week in Ransomware – June 4th 2021 – Where’s the Beef? Ransomware has continued to be part of the 24-hour news cycle as another significant attack against critical infrastructure took place this week. This week’s most notable attack was an REvil ransomware attack against JBS, the world’s largest meat supplier. This attack led to disruption
US Charges Latvian For Helping Develop the Trickbot Malware The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today that a Latvian national was charged for her alleged role as a malware developer in the Trickbot transnational cybercrime organization. Alla Witte (aka Max) was charged with 19 counts of a 47-count indictment after being arrested on February 6 in
Phishing Uses Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Lures to Infect Victims The recent ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline inspired a threat actor to create a new phishing lure to trick victims into downloading malicious files. The emails are targeted and tailored as urgent notifications to download and install a system update that would defend against the latest ransomware strains. Well-crafted
Attackers Are Scanning for Vulnerable VMware Servers, Patch Now! Threat actors are actively scanning for Internet-exposed VMware vCenter servers unpatched against a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability impacting all vCenter deployments and patched by VMware ten days ago. The ongoing scanning activity was spotted by threat intelligence company Bad Packets yesterday and confirmed earlier today by cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont.
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