The Week in Ransomware – November 17th 2023 – Citrix in the Crosshairs
Ransomware gangs target exposed Citrix Netscaler devices using a publicly available exploit to breach large organizations, steal data, and encrypt…
FBI shares tactics of notorious Scattered Spider hacker collective
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released an advisory about the evasive threat actor…
Alleged Extortioner of Psychotherapy Patients Faces Trial
Prosecutors in Finland this week commenced their criminal trial against Julius Kivimäki, a 26-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a…
Samsung hit by new data breach impacting UK store customers
Samsung Electronics is notifying some of its customers of a data breach that exposed their personal information to an unauthorized…
LockBit ransomware exploits Citrix Bleed in attacks, 10K servers exposed
The Lockbit ransomware attacks use publicly available exploits for the Citrix Bleed vulnerability (CVE-2023-4966) to breach the systems of large…
LockBit ransomware leaks gigabytes of Boeing data
The LockBit ransomware gang published data stolen from Boeing, one of the largest aerospace companies that services commercial airplanes and…
ChatGPT: OpenAI Attributes Regular Outages to DDoS Attacks
ChatGPT and the associated APIs have been affected by regular outages, citing DDoS attacks as the reason — the Anonymous…
Russian hackers switch to LOTL technique to cause power outage
Russian state hackers have evolved their methods for breaching industrial control systems by adopting living-off-the-land techniques that enable reaching the…
Russian state-owned Sberbank hit by 1 million RPS DDoS attack
Russian financial organization Sberbank states in a press release that two weeks ago it faced the most powerful distributed denial of…
Russian-speaking threat actor “farnetwork” linked to 5 ransomware gangs
The operator of the Nokoyawa ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), a threat actor known as 'farnetwork', built experience over the years by helping the JSWORM, Nefilim, Karma,…