QBot Partners With Egregor Ransomware In Bot-Fueled Attacks The Qbot banking trojan has dropped the ProLock ransomware in favor of the Egregor ransomware who burst into activity in September. Qbot, otherwise known as QakBot or QuakBot, is Windows malware that steals bank credentials, Windows domain credentials, and provides remote access to threat Read more…
Scammer Sentenced For Stealing $9M From Adoption, Automotive Firms A Florida man was sentenced to 37 months in prison earlier this week for his involvement in a business account takeover scheme that resulted in more than $9 million in total financial losses. Business account takeover (also known as corporate account takeover) Read more…
Egregor Ransomware Shoots Ransom Notes Out Of Victims’ Printers The Egregor ransomware uses a novel approach to get a victim’s attention after an attack – shoot ransom notes from all available printers. Ransomware gangs know that many businesses would rather hide a ransomware attack than make it public, including to Read more…
REvil Ransomware Hits Managed.com Hosting Provider, 500K Ransom Managed web hosting provider Managed.com has taken their servers and web hosting systems offline as they struggle to recover from a weekend REvil ransomware attack. On Monday morning, Managed.com announced that they had suffered an issue affecting the availability of their hosting Read more…
Adult Site Users Targeted With ZLoader Malware Via Fake Java Update A malware campaign ongoing since the beginning of the year has recently changed tactics, switching from exploit kits to social engineering to target adult content consumers. The operators use an old trick to distribute a variant of ZLoader, a banking Read more…
Dozens Of Ransomware Gangs Partner With Hackers To Extort Victims Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) crews are actively looking for affiliates to split profits obtained in outsourced ransomware attacks targeting high profile public and private organizations. RaaS services are viewed by some as ransomware renting service where the threat actors who breach the Read more…
Retail Giant Cencosud Hit By Egregor Ransomware Attack, Stores Impacted Chilean-based multinational retail company Cencosud has suffered a cyberattack by the Egregor ransomware operation that impacts services at stores. Cencosud is one of the largest retail companies in Latin America, with over 140,000 employees and $15 billion in revenue for 2019. Cencosud Read more…
New Tool Lets Attackers Easily Create Reply-chain Phishing Emails A new email tool advertised on a cybercriminal forum provides a stealthier method for carrying out fraud or malware attacks by allowing messages to be injected directly into the victim’s inbox. By slipping content in the normal email flow, the utility Read more…
Ransomware Gang Hacks Facebook Account To Run Extortion Ads A ransomware group has now started to run Facebook advertisements to pressure victims to pay a ransom. When modern ransomware was first introduced in 2012, we saw a new extortion attack where threat actors extort victims by encrypting their files and then demand a ransom Read more…
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