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Ransomware Hit $1 Billion in 2023
Ransomware Hit $1 Billion in 2023
In 2023, ransomware actors intensified their operations, targeting high-profile institutions and critical infrastructure, including hospitals, schools, and government agencies. Major ransomware supply chain attacks were carried out exploiting the ubiquitous file transfer software MOVEit, impacting companies ranging from the BBC to British Airways. As a result of these attacks and others, ransomware gangs reached an unprecedented milestone, surpassing $1 billion in extorted cryptocurrency payments from victims. Last year’s developments highlight the evolving nature of this cyber threat and its increasing impact on global institutions and security at large.
·chainalysis.com·
Ransomware Hit $1 Billion in 2023
Time keeps on slippin’ slippin’ slippin’: The 2023 Active Adversary Report for Tech Leaders – Sophos News
Time keeps on slippin’ slippin’ slippin’: The 2023 Active Adversary Report for Tech Leaders – Sophos News
  • Compromised credentials are a gift that keeps on giving (your stuff away) MFA is your mature, sensible friend Dwell time is sinking faster than RMS Titanic Criminals don’t take time off; neither can you
    • Active Directory servers: The ultimate attacker tool RDP: High time to decline the risk Missing telemetry just makes things harder
·news.sophos.com·
Time keeps on slippin’ slippin’ slippin’: The 2023 Active Adversary Report for Tech Leaders – Sophos News
DDoS threat report for 2023 Q2
DDoS threat report for 2023 Q2
Q2 2023 saw an unprecedented escalation in DDoS attack sophistication. Pro-Russian hacktivists REvil, Killnet and Anonymous Sudan joined forces to attack Western sites. Mitel vulnerability exploits surged by a whopping 532%, and attacks on crypto rocketed up by 600%. Read the full story...
·blog.cloudflare.com·
DDoS threat report for 2023 Q2
Malvertising Used as Entry Vector for BlackCat Actors Also Leverage SpyBoy Terminator
Malvertising Used as Entry Vector for BlackCat Actors Also Leverage SpyBoy Terminator
We found that malicious actors used malvertising to distribute malware via cloned webpages of legitimate organizations. The distribution involved a webpage of the well-known application WinSCP, an open-source Windows application for file transfer. We were able to identify that this activity led to a BlackCat (aka ALPHV) infection, and actors also used SpyBoy, a terminator that tampers with protection provided by agents.
·trendmicro.com·
Malvertising Used as Entry Vector for BlackCat Actors Also Leverage SpyBoy Terminator
Cyber Extortion activity reached the highest volume ever recorded in Q1 2023 after a decline of 8% in 2022, reveals new Orange Cyberdefense report
Cyber Extortion activity reached the highest volume ever recorded in Q1 2023 after a decline of 8% in 2022, reveals new Orange Cyberdefense report
  • The shift previously observed in the geographical location of cyber extortion (Cy-X) victims continues to accelerate, moving from the United States (-21%), and Canada (-28%) to Southeast Asia region (+42%), the Nordics (+40%) & Latin America (+32%). * Whilst Manufacturing continues to be the biggest industry impacted, the number of victims decreased (-39%), with a shift towards the Utilities sector (+51%), Educational Services (+41%) and Finance and Insurance Sectors (+11%). * Businesses in 96 different countries were impacted by Cy-X in 2022, equating to nearly half (49%) the countries in the world. Since 2020 Orange Cyberdefense has recorded victims in over 70% of all countries worldwide * Over 2,100 organizations in the world were publicly shamed as a victim of Cy-X in 2022, across an almost even distribution of business sizes.
·newsroom.orange.com·
Cyber Extortion activity reached the highest volume ever recorded in Q1 2023 after a decline of 8% in 2022, reveals new Orange Cyberdefense report
Creal: New Stealer Targeting Cryptocurrency Users Via Phishing Sites
Creal: New Stealer Targeting Cryptocurrency Users Via Phishing Sites
Open-Source Stealer Widely Abused by Threat Actors The threat of InfoStealers is widespread and has been frequently employed by various Threat Actors (TA)s to launch attacks and make financial gains. Until now, the primary use of stealers by TAs has been to sell logs or to gain initial entry into a corporate network.
·blog.cyble.com·
Creal: New Stealer Targeting Cryptocurrency Users Via Phishing Sites
OneNote Embedded file abuse
OneNote Embedded file abuse
In recent weeks OneNote has gotten a lot of media attention as threat actors are abusing the embedded files feature in OneNote in their phishing campaigns. I first observed this OneNote abuse in the media via Didier’s post. This was later also mentioned in Xavier’s ISC diary and on the podcast. Later, in the beginning of February, the hacker news covered this as well.
·blog.nviso.eu·
OneNote Embedded file abuse
Activision's Data Breach Contains Employee Information, Call of Duty and More, Report
Activision's Data Breach Contains Employee Information, Call of Duty and More, Report
Insider Gaming has been able to obtain the entirety of the gaming giant Activision’s data breach initially reported by vx-underground and confirmed the data contains plans for Modern Warfare 2’s upcoming DLCs, Call of Duty 2023 (Codenamed Jupiter) and Call of Duty 2024 (Codenamed Cerberus), as well as sensitive employee information.
·metacurity.substack.com·
Activision's Data Breach Contains Employee Information, Call of Duty and More, Report
2023 Crypto Crime Trends: Illicit Cryptocurrency Volumes Reach All-Time Highs Amid Surge in Sanctions Designations and Hacking
2023 Crypto Crime Trends: Illicit Cryptocurrency Volumes Reach All-Time Highs Amid Surge in Sanctions Designations and Hacking
Every year, we publish our estimates of illicit cryptocurrency activity to demonstrate the power of blockchains’ transparency – these kinds of estimates aren’t possible in traditional finance – and to teach investigators and compliance professionals about the latest trends in cryptocurrency-related crime that they need to know about. What could those estimates look like in a year like 2022? Last year was one of the most tumultuous in cryptocurrency history, with several large firms imploding, including Celsius, Three Arrows Capital, FTX, and others — some amid allegations of fraud.
·blog.chainalysis.com·
2023 Crypto Crime Trends: Illicit Cryptocurrency Volumes Reach All-Time Highs Amid Surge in Sanctions Designations and Hacking
No Pineapple! –DPRK Targeting of Medical Research and Technology Sector
No Pineapple! –DPRK Targeting of Medical Research and Technology Sector
During Q4 2022, WithSecure™ detected and responded to a cyber attack conducted by a threat actor that WithSecure™ have attributed with high confidence to an intrusion set referred to as Lazarus Group. Attribution with high confidence was based off of overlapping techniques tactics and procedures as well as an operational security mistake by the threat actor. Amongst technical indications, the incident observed by WithSecure™ also contains characteristics of recent campaigns attributed to Lazarus Group by other researchers.
·labs.withsecure.com·
No Pineapple! –DPRK Targeting of Medical Research and Technology Sector
More than 200 U.S. institutions hit with ransomware in 2022: report
More than 200 U.S. institutions hit with ransomware in 2022: report
More than 200 local governments, schools and hospitals in the U.S. were affected by ransomware in 2022, according to research conducted by cybersecurity firm Emsisoft. The annual “State of Ransomware in the US” report found that 105 local governments; 44 universities and colleges; 45 school districts; and 25 healthcare providers operating 290 hospitals dealt with ransomware attacks last year.
·therecord.media·
More than 200 U.S. institutions hit with ransomware in 2022: report
Creal: New Stealer Targeting Cryptocurrency Users Via Phishing Sites
Creal: New Stealer Targeting Cryptocurrency Users Via Phishing Sites
Open-Source Stealer Widely Abused by Threat Actors The threat of InfoStealers is widespread and has been frequently employed by various Threat Actors (TA)s to launch attacks and make financial gains. Until now, the primary use of stealers by TAs has been to sell logs or to gain initial entry into a corporate network.
·blog.cyble.com·
Creal: New Stealer Targeting Cryptocurrency Users Via Phishing Sites
OneNote Embedded file abuse
OneNote Embedded file abuse
In recent weeks OneNote has gotten a lot of media attention as threat actors are abusing the embedded files feature in OneNote in their phishing campaigns. I first observed this OneNote abuse in the media via Didier’s post. This was later also mentioned in Xavier’s ISC diary and on the podcast. Later, in the beginning of February, the hacker news covered this as well.
·blog.nviso.eu·
OneNote Embedded file abuse
Activision's Data Breach Contains Employee Information, Call of Duty and More, Report
Activision's Data Breach Contains Employee Information, Call of Duty and More, Report
Insider Gaming has been able to obtain the entirety of the gaming giant Activision’s data breach initially reported by vx-underground and confirmed the data contains plans for Modern Warfare 2’s upcoming DLCs, Call of Duty 2023 (Codenamed Jupiter) and Call of Duty 2024 (Codenamed Cerberus), as well as sensitive employee information.
·metacurity.substack.com·
Activision's Data Breach Contains Employee Information, Call of Duty and More, Report
2023 Crypto Crime Trends: Illicit Cryptocurrency Volumes Reach All-Time Highs Amid Surge in Sanctions Designations and Hacking
2023 Crypto Crime Trends: Illicit Cryptocurrency Volumes Reach All-Time Highs Amid Surge in Sanctions Designations and Hacking
Every year, we publish our estimates of illicit cryptocurrency activity to demonstrate the power of blockchains’ transparency – these kinds of estimates aren’t possible in traditional finance – and to teach investigators and compliance professionals about the latest trends in cryptocurrency-related crime that they need to know about. What could those estimates look like in a year like 2022? Last year was one of the most tumultuous in cryptocurrency history, with several large firms imploding, including Celsius, Three Arrows Capital, FTX, and others — some amid allegations of fraud.
·blog.chainalysis.com·
2023 Crypto Crime Trends: Illicit Cryptocurrency Volumes Reach All-Time Highs Amid Surge in Sanctions Designations and Hacking
No Pineapple! –DPRK Targeting of Medical Research and Technology Sector
No Pineapple! –DPRK Targeting of Medical Research and Technology Sector
During Q4 2022, WithSecure™ detected and responded to a cyber attack conducted by a threat actor that WithSecure™ have attributed with high confidence to an intrusion set referred to as Lazarus Group. Attribution with high confidence was based off of overlapping techniques tactics and procedures as well as an operational security mistake by the threat actor. Amongst technical indications, the incident observed by WithSecure™ also contains characteristics of recent campaigns attributed to Lazarus Group by other researchers.
·labs.withsecure.com·
No Pineapple! –DPRK Targeting of Medical Research and Technology Sector