MosesStaff Locks Up Targets, with No Ransom Demand, No Decryption
A politically motivated group is paralyzing Israeli entities with no financial goal – and no intention of handing over decryption keys.
Malware
Emotet Resurfaces on the Back of TrickBot After Nearly a Year
Researchers observed what looks like the Emotet botnet – the “world’s most dangerous malware” – reborn and distributed by the trojan it used to deliver.
The Best Ransomware Response, According to the Data
An analysis of ransomware attack negotiation-data offers best practices.
Malicious groups disable features in Alibaba Cloud ECS instances for Monero cryptojacking, according to Trend Micro researchers.
The alert was mumbo jumbo, but it was indeed sent from the bureau’s
email system, from the agency’s own internet address.
Europol reports that criminal groups are undermining the EU’s economy and its society, offering everything from murder-for-hire to kidnapping, torture and mutilation.
Immutable storage and more: Sonya Duffin, data protection expert at Veritas Technologies, offers the Top 10 steps for building a multi-layer resilience profile.
Google researchers have detailed a widespread watering-hole attack that installed a backdoor on Apple devices that visited Hong Kong-based media and pro-democracy sites.
Ransomware volumes are up 1000%. Aamir Lakhani, cybersecurity researcher and practitioner at FortiGuard Labs , discusses secure email, network segmentation and sandboxing for defense.
Asset inventories and risk assessments are critical tools in defending against the increasing scourge of ransomware.
