Leedarson Lighting hit by Dragonforce Ransomware Gang

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DragonForce Ransomware Gang Prompts Ohio Lottery to Shut Down - On 25 December 2023, the Ohio Lottery faced a major cyberattack, as a result, they had to shut down some crucial systems related to the undisclosed internal application. The threat actors behind the breach are the DragonForce ransomware group. While ...
1 year ago Cysecurity.news Dragonforce

Leedarson.com hit by Dragonforce Ransomware Gang - Actor: dragonforce ...
1 year ago Twitter.com Dragonforce

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

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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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

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 ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Medusa Cuba STORMOUS

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 ...
1 year ago Feeds.fortinet.com 8base

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 ...
1 year ago Unit42.paloaltonetworks.com Medusa

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 ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com LockBit BianLian Akira Cactus

Ransomware trends and recovery strategies companies should know - Ransomware attacks can have severe consequences, causing financial losses, reputational damage, and operational disruptions. The methods used to deliver ransomware vary, including phishing emails, malicious websites, and exploiting vulnerabilities in ...
1 year ago Helpnetsecurity.com

LockBit targets hospitals - We did not see much research released on ransomware this week, with most of the news focusing on new attacks and LockBit affiliates increasingly targeting hospitals. These attacks include ones against Yakult Australia and the Ohio Lottery by the new ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com 8base LockBit Dragonforce

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 ...
1 year ago Techtarget.com LockBit Snatch

The Week in Ransomware - Today's column brings you two weeks of information on the latest ransomware attacks and research after we skipped last week's article. BleepingComputer has learned that some of the BlackCat/ALPHV affiliates are not buying the explanation and have ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com LockBit Qilin Noescape

The Week in Ransomware - This week was pretty quiet on the ransomware front, with most of the attention on the seizure of the BreachForums data theft forum. That does not mean there was nothing of interest released this week about ransomware. A report by CISA said that the ...
10 months ago Bleepingcomputer.com LockBit Inc ransom Black Basta

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 ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Qilin Cactus Black Basta

Ransomware in 2023 recap: 5 key takeaways - This provides the best overall picture of ransomware activity, but the true number of attacks is far higher. While some ransomware trends hardly changed over the last year, such as LockBit's continued dominance, ransomware criminals also challenged ...
1 year ago Malwarebytes.com Scattered Spider LockBit

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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Ohio Lottery hit by cyberattack claimed by DragonForce ransomware - The Ohio Lottery was forced to shut down some key systems after a cyberattack affected an undisclosed number of internal applications on Christmas Eve. While the incident is now under investigation, and the lottery is working to restore all impacted ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Dragonforce

Dozens of countries will pledge to stop paying ransomware gangs - An alliance of 40 countries will sign a pledge during the third annual International Counter-Ransomware Initiative summit in Washington, D.C., to stop paying ransoms demanded by cybercriminal groups. Addressing reporters on Monday, Anne Neuberger, ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com

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

Ransomware Roundup - On a bi-weekly basis, FortiGuard Labs gathers data on ransomware variants of interest that have been gaining traction within our datasets and the OSINT community. The Ransomware Roundup report aims to provide readers with brief insights into the ...
1 year ago Feeds.fortinet.com

ALPHV ransomware site outage rumored to be caused by law enforcement - A law enforcement operation is rumored to be behind an outage affecting ALPHV ransomware gang's websites over the last 30 hours. The ALPHV negotiation and data leak sites suddenly became unavailable yesterday and continue to remain down today. ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Ragnar Locker

Ransomware review: January 2024 - This provides the best overall picture of ransomware activity, but the true number of attacks is far higher. In February, there were 376 ransomware victims, marking an unusually active month for the historically subdued time period. February didn't ...
1 year ago Malwarebytes.com LockBit Black Basta