A joint advisory detailing LockBit ransomware’s tactics and mitigations disclosed that the cybercrime gang extorted $91 million from US companies since 2020 after 1,700 attacks.
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An Illinois hospital has attributed its permanent shutdown to a ransomware attack that disrupted healthcare, communication, and IT systems, preventing it from making insurance claims.
An adware campaign involving over 60,000 Android apps has infected devices since October 2022. Researchers warned that the infected Android apps could start distributing potent malware, including credential stealers, banking trojans, and ransomware.
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab has discovered an iOS malware variant spreading via an iPhone zero-click exploit in iMessage. Russia has accused the NSA of targeting the country’s diplomatic missions and Apple of providing backdoors.
Toyota discovered a second cloud misconfiguration data leak that exposed 260,000 domestic and international customers' in-vehicle data and personal information for over eight years.
Free VPN app SuperVPN data leak exposed over 360 million records that could identify users. The app has over 100 million downloads on Google Play and Apple's App Store.
Apria healthcare data breach has exposed the personal, medical, and financial information of up to 1.8 million individuals. The cyber intrusions occurred from April 5 to May 7, 2019, and from August 27 to October 10, 2021.
Bad bots account for 30% of internet traffic and are increasingly used in account takeover and API attacks, while human traffic fell to an 8-year low of just over half of all internet traffic.
Authorities in the U.S. and Australia have warned that the BianLian ransomware gang has abandoned the double extortion model for purely data extortion attacks. More groups are likely to follow suit and forego the hassle of developing and managing the encryption and decryption process in favor of a less complicated attack,
Group-IB researchers infiltrated the Qilin ransomware operation and observed that the group's payment structure rewards affiliates with 80% from a ransomware payout of $3 million or less and 85% for any payout exceeding $3 million.
