Lessons Learned from the Windows Remote Desktop Honeypot Report
Over several weeks in October of 2022, Specops collected 4.6 million attempted passwords on their Windows Remote Desktop honeypot system.…
The Evolution of Account Takeover Attacks: Initial Access Brokers for IoT
Head off account takeover attacks by being proactive about IoT security. Start with designing and building better security protocols into…
Initial Access Broker Market Booms, Posing Growing Threat to Enterprises
A rapid increase in the number of operators in the space — the "locksmiths" of the cyber underground — has…
FBI: Cuba ransomware raked in $60 million from over 100 victims
The FBI and CISA revealed in a new joint security advisory that the Cuba ransomware gang raked in over $60…
Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys
Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “Zeppelin” in…
US govt warns of Daixin Team targeting health orgs with ransomware
CISA, the FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned that a cybercrime group known as Daixin Team…
List of Common Passwords Accounts for Nearly All Cyberattacks
Half of a million passwords from the RockYou2021 list account for 99.997% of all credential attacks against a variety of…
Venus Ransomware targets publicly exposed Remote Desktop services
Threat actors behind the relatively new Venus Ransomware are hacking into publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices. [...]
Cybercriminals See Allure in BEC Attacks Over Ransomware
While ransomware seems stalled, business email compromise (BEC) attacks continue to make profits from the ProxyShell and Log4j vulnerabilities, nearly…
Automotive supplier breached by 3 ransomware gangs in 2 weeks
An automotive supplier had its systems breached and files encrypted by three different ransomware gangs over a two-week span in May,…