Compass Group Italia hit by Akira Ransomware Gang

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Key Group uses leaked builders of ransomware and wipers | Securelist - The first discovered sample of Key Group, the Xorist ransomware, established persistence in the system by changing file extension associations. The .huis_bn extension added to encrypted files in the early versions of Key Group samples, Xorist and ...
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Compass Group Italia hit by Akira Ransomware Gang - Actor: akira ...
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The Top 10 Ransomware Groups of 2023 - This article takes an in-depth look at the rise in ransomware attacks over the past year and the criminal groups driving the surge in cyber extortion. LockBit has established itself as one of the most notorious ransomware operations since emerging on ...
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The Week in Ransomware - Earlier this month, the BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware operation suffered a five-day disruption to their Tor data leak and negotiation sites, rumored to be caused by a law enforcement action. The FBI revealed this week that they hacked the BlackCat/ALPHV ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com LockBit Akira Noescape

Claude is testing ChatGPT-like Deep Research feature Compass - To make things easier for users, Claude is testing some system prompts for the Compass feature, such as "Find credible sources for my research" and "Provide evidence-based insights for my topic". "Compass" will allow Claude to perform certain tasks, ...
5 days ago Bleepingcomputer.com

Tietoevry ransomware attack causes outages for Swedish firms, cities - Finnish IT services and enterprise cloud hosting provider Tietoevry has suffered a ransomware attack impacting cloud hosting customers in one of its data centers in Sweden, with the attack reportedly conducted by the Akira ransomware gang. Tietoevry ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Akira

The Week in Ransomware - Governments struck back this week against members of ransomware operations, imposing sanctions on one threat actor and sentencing another to prison. On Tuesday, the Australian, US, and UK governments announced sanctions against Aleksandr Gennadievich ...
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LockBit takedown surges Akira Ransomware Attacks - Following the takedown of the LockBit Ransomware group's website in 'Operation Cronos' by law enforcement agencies, there has been a notable surge in the activity of the Akira Ransomware group in recent weeks. This rise has been particularly ...
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Targeting homeowners' data - As these companies obtain a large amount of sensitive information from their customers, they become attractive targets for ransomware gangs to conduct double-extortion attacks. Finland is also warning of Akira ransomware increasingly targeting ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com LockBit Akira

Hive Ransomware: A Detailed Analysis - This past week, on January 26th, to be exact, the FBI successfully shut down the Hive ransomware group and saved victims over a hundred million dollars in ransom payments and remediation costs. As ransomware continues to be a national security threat ...
2 years ago Heimdalsecurity.com LockBit

Ransomware victims targeted by fake hack-back offers - Some organizations victimized by the Royal and Akira ransomware gangs have been targeted by a threat actor posing as a security researcher who promised to hack back the original attacker and delete stolen victim data. Both Royal and Akira ransomware ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Akira Qilin

NCC Group records the most ransomware victims ever in 2023 - While coordinated law enforcement action and government initiatives helped in the fight against ransomware last year, NCC Group still recorded an 84% increase in attacks during 2023. The report included data from NCC Group's Cyber Incident Response ...
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US energy firm shares how Akira ransomware hacked its systems - In a rare display of transparency, US energy services firm BHI Energy details how the Akira ransomware operation breached their networks and stole the data during the attack. BHI Energy, part of Westinghouse Electric Company, is a specialty ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Akira

Waiting for the BlackCat rebrand - We saw another ransomware operation shut down this week after first getting breached by law enforcement and then targeting critical infrastructure, putting them further in the spotlight of the US government. While the Tor onion domain seizure was a ...
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Medusa Ransomware Turning Your Files into Stone - Unit 42 Threat Intelligence analysts have noticed an escalation in Medusa ransomware activities and a shift in tactics toward extortion, characterized by the introduction in early 2023 of their dedicated leak site called the Medusa Blog. The Unit 42 ...
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Nissan Australia cyberattack claimed by Akira ransomware gang - Today, the Akira ransomware gang claimed that it breached the network of Nissan Australia, the Australian division of Japanese car maker Nissan. In a new entry added to the operation's date leak blog on December 22, Akira says that its operators ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Akira Qilin

Ransomware Roundup - The Ransomware Roundup report aims to provide readers with brief insights into the evolving ransomware landscape and the Fortinet solutions that protect against those variants. This edition of the Ransomware Roundup covers the 8base ransomware. 8base ...
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The Week in Ransomware - An international law enforcement operation claims to have dismantled a ransomware affiliate operation in Ukraine, which was responsible for attacks on organizations in 71 countries. The threat actors are said to be affiliates of numerous ransomware ...
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Top 10 Notorious Ransomware Gangs of 2023 - By employing a multitude of advanced techniques like double extortion along with other illicit tactics, ransomware groups are continually evolving at a rapid pace. Here below, we have mentioned all the types of ransomware used by the threat actors ...
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Researchers link 3AM ransomware to Conti, Royal cybercrime gangs - Security researchers analyzing the activity of the recently emerged 3AM ransomware operation uncovered close connections with infamous groups, such as the Conti syndicate and the Royal ransomware gang. The 3AM ransomware gang's activity was first ...
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Declining Ransomware Payments: Shift in Hacker Tactics? - Several cybersecurity advisories and agencies recommend not caving into ransomware gangs' demands and paying their ransoms. It seems the tide is turning, with a decline in ransomware payments; this article explores the trend and what it might mean ...
1 year ago Securityboulevard.com

Akira ransomware gang says it stole passport scans from Lush The Register - Passport scans are routinely collected to verify identities during the course of the hiring process, which suggests Akira's affiliate likely had access to a system containing staff-related data. Company documents relating to accounting, finances, ...
1 year ago Go.theregister.com Akira

Akira ransomware gang says it stole passport scans from Lush The Register - Passport scans are routinely collected to verify identities during the course of the hiring process, which suggests Akira's affiliate likely had access to a system containing staff-related data. Company documents relating to accounting, finances, ...
1 year ago Theregister.com Akira

How ransomware gangs are engaging - As ransomware gangs continue to market themselves as legitimate businesses complete with customer service representatives, new research from Sophos showed that threat actors are expanding public relations efforts to further pressure victims into ...
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