Operation Israel - 1 hit by Siegedsec Ransomware Gang

10 Best Ransomware Protection Tools - 2025 - It protects devices from ransomware and other cyber threats using advanced threat intelligence, behavioral analysis, and cloud-based technology. It monitors and prevents ransomware assaults on personal files and automatically restores encrypted ...
2 weeks ago Cybersecuritynews.com

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

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

Israel Battles Spike in Wartime Hacktivist, OT Cyberattacks - For Israel, 2023 will be remembered as the beginning of the war in Gaza after the devastating Hamas terror attacks on Oct. 7. The conflict spread to the cyber realm, with hacktivists on both sides declaring their intentions to conduct cyberattacks. ...
1 year ago Darkreading.com POLONIUM

FBI disrupts Blackcat ransomware operation, creates decryption tool - The Department of Justice announced today that the FBI successfully breached the ALPHV ransomware operation's servers to monitor their activities and obtain decryption keys. On December 7th, BleepingComputer first reported that the ALPHV, aka ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com LockBit Noescape

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

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 ...
1 year ago Securityboulevard.com TA505 8base LockBit BianLian Medusa Noescape Black Basta

The law enforcement operations targeting cybercrime in 2023 - In 2023, we saw numerous law enforcement operations targeting cybercrime operations, including cryptocurrency scams, phishing attacks, credential theft, malware development, and ransomware attacks. While some of these operations were more successful ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com

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

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 ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Blacksuit LockBit Threeam

Toronto Public Library outages caused by Black Basta ransomware attack - The Toronto Public Library is experiencing ongoing technical outages due to a Black Basta ransomware attack. The Toronto Public Library is Canada's largest public library system, giving access to 12 million books through 100 branch libraries across ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Carbanak FIN7 Metaencryptor Black Basta

FBI: Royal ransomware asked 350 victims to pay $275 million - The FBI and CISA revealed in a joint advisory that the Royal ransomware gang has breached the networks of at least 350 organizations worldwide since September 2022. In an update to the original advisory published in March with additional information ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Blacksuit

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 - 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

Operation Israel - 1 hit by Siegedsec Ransomware Gang - Actor: siegedsec ...
1 year ago Twitter.com Siegedsec

Ransomware Attacks Strike South Africa, Decline in UAE - Cybercrime - and especially ransomware - traditionally have had an uneven impact across the Middle East and Africa, yet recent data suggests that ongoing geopolitical conflicts will likely raise the overall level of cyberattacks across the regions. ...
1 year ago Darkreading.com Molerats LockBit

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 - 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

VX-Underground malware collective framed by Phobos ransomware - A new Phobos ransomware variant frames the popular VX-Underground malware-sharing collective, indicating the group is behind attacks using the encryptor. Phobos launched in 2018 in what is believed to be a ransomware-as-a-service derived from the ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Qilin Cactus Black Basta

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 ...
9 months ago Bleepingcomputer.com LockBit Inc ransom Black Basta

Ragnar Locker ransomware developer arrested in France - Law enforcement agencies arrested a malware developer linked with the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang and seized the group's dark web sites in a joint international operation. Authorities from France, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Latvia, the ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Trigona Ragnar Locker

FBI: ALPHV ransomware raked in $300 million from over 1,000 victims - The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang has made over $300 million in ransom payments from more than 1,000 victims worldwide as of September 2023, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In the joint advisory published today in collaboration ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com LockBit Noescape

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

BlackSuit ransomware gang claims attack on KADOKAWA corporation - The BlackSuit ransomware gang claimed a recent cyberattack on KADOKAWA corporation and is now threatening to publish stolen data if a ransom is not paid. KADOKAWA is a Japanese media conglomerate that operates numerous companies in film, publishing, ...
8 months ago Bleepingcomputer.com Blacksuit