The Week in Ransomware – August 19th 2022 – Evolving extortion tactics
Bringing you the latest ransomware news, including new research, tactics, and cyberattacks. We also saw the return of the BlackByte…
Winnti hackers split Cobalt Strike into 154 pieces to evade detection
The Chinese Winnti hacking group, also known as 'APT41' or 'Wicked Spider,' targeted at least 80 organizations last year and…
Hackers attack UK water supplier but extort wrong company
South Staffordshire Water, a company supplying 330 million liters of drinking water to 1.6m consumers daily, has issued a statement…
Hackers attack UK water supplier but extort wrong victim
South Staffordshire Water, a company supplying 330 million liters of drinking water to 1.6 consumers daily, has issued a statement…
Microsoft disrupts Russian hackers’ operation on NATO targets
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has disrupted a hacking and social engineering operation linked to a Russian threat actor…
The Week in Ransomware – August 12th 2022 – Attacking the defenders
It was a very busy week for ransomware news and attacks, especially with the disclosure that Cisco was breached by…
Microsoft blocks UEFI bootloaders enabling Windows Secure Boot bypass
Some signed third-party bootloaders for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) used by Windows could allow attackers to execute unauthorized…
UK NHS service recovery may take a month after MSP ransomware attack
Managed service provider (MSP) Advanced confirmed that a ransomware attack on its systems caused the disruption of emergency services (111) from…
UK NHS suffers outage after cyberattack on managed service provider
United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) 111 emergency services are affected by a major outage triggered by a cyberattack that hit…
Critical RCE vulnerability impacts 29 models of DrayTek routers
Researchers at Trellix have discovered a critical unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability impacting 29 models of the DrayTek Vigor…