MoneyGram: No evidence ransomware is behind recent cyberattack
MoneyGram says there is no evidence that ransomware is behind a recent cyberattack that led to a five-day outage in September.…
Microsoft links Scattered Spider hackers to Qilin ransomware attacks
Microsoft says the Scattered Spider cybercrime gang has added Qilin ransomware to its arsenal and is now using it in…
Alleged Boss of ‘Scattered Spider’ Hacking Group Arrested
A 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom arrested this week in Spain is allegedly the ringleader of Scattered Spider, a…
Scattered Spider hackers switch focus to cloud apps for data theft
The Scattered Spider gang has started to steal data from software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and establish persistence through creating new virtual machines.…
US Health Dept warns hospitals of hackers targeting IT help desks
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warns that hackers are now using social engineering tactics to target…
Arrests in $400M SIM-Swap Tied to Heist at FTX?
Three Americans were charged this week with stealing more than $400 million in a November 2022 SIM-swapping attack. The U.S.…
Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider
On Jan. 9, 2024, U.S. authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring…
Octo Tempest Group Threatens Physical Violence as Social Engineering Tactic
The financially motivated English-speaking threat actors use advanced social engineering techniques, SIM swapping, and even threats of violence to breach…
Okta says its support system was breached using stolen credentials
Okta says attackers accessed files containing cookies and session tokens uploaded by customers to its support management system after breaching…
The Week in Ransomware – August 18th 2023 – LockBit on Thin Ice
While there was quite a bit of ransomware news this week, the highlighted story was the release of Jon DiMaggio's…