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Phobos Ransomware Aggressively Targeting U.S. Critical Infrastructure

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have warned of Phobos ransomware attacks targeting government and critical infrastructure entities, outlining the various tactics and techniques the threat actors have adopted to deploy the file-encrypting malware. "Structured as a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model, Phobos ransomware actors have targeted entities including municipal and county governments, emergency services, education, public healthcare, and critical infrastructure to successfully ransom several million in U.S. dollars," the government said.

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·thehackernews.com·Mar 6, 2024

Phobos Ransomware Aggressively Targeting U.S. Critical Infrastructure

Play Ransomware Goes Commercial - Now Offered as a Service to Cybercriminals

Play ransomware has turned into Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), allowing other cybercriminals to use it.

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·thehackernews.com·Nov 29, 2023

Play Ransomware Goes Commercial - Now Offered as a Service to Cybercriminals

BlackCat Operators Distributing Ransomware Disguised as WinSCP via Malvertising

Threat actors associated with the BlackCat ransomware have been observed employing malvertising tricks to distribute rogue installers of the WinSCP file transfer application.

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·thehackernews.com·Jul 5, 2023

BlackCat Operators Distributing Ransomware Disguised as WinSCP via Malvertising

New Python-based Ransomware Targeting JupyterLab Web Notebooks

Researchers have disclosed what they say is the first-ever Python-based ransomware strain specifically designed to target exposed Jupyter notebooks, a web-based interactive computing platform that allows editing and running programs via a browser. "The attackers gained initial access via misconfigured environments, then ran a ransomware script that encrypts every file on a given path on the server and deletes itself after execution to conceal the attack," Assaf Morag, a data analyst at Aqua Security, said in a report.

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·thehackernews.com·Mar 31, 2022

New Python-based Ransomware Targeting JupyterLab Web Notebooks

Researchers have disclosed what they say is the first-ever Python-based ransomware strain specifically designed to target exposed Jupyter notebooks, a web-based interactive computing platform that allows editing and running programs via a browser. "The attackers gained initial access via misconfigured environments, then ran a ransomware script that encrypts every file on a given path on the server and deletes itself after execution to conceal the attack," Assaf Morag, a data analyst at Aqua Security, said in a report.

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·thehackernews.com·Mar 31, 2022

New Python-based Ransomware Targeting JupyterLab Web Notebooks

Researchers have disclosed what they say is the first-ever Python-based ransomware strain specifically designed to target exposed Jupyter notebooks, a web-based interactive computing platform that allows editing and running programs via a browser. "The attackers gained initial access via misconfigured environments, then ran a ransomware script that encrypts every file on a given path on the server and deletes itself after execution to conceal the attack," Assaf Morag, a data analyst at Aqua Security, said in a report.

#thehackernews #EN #2022 #Python #Ransomware #JupyterLab #Notebooks

·thehackernews.com·Mar 31, 2022

New Python-based Ransomware Targeting JupyterLab Web Notebooks