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The Week In Ransomware – April 9th 2021 – Massive Ransom Demands Ransomware attacks continue over the past two weeks with a continuation of the massive initial ransom demands we have seen recently. Over the past two weeks, we have learned of attacks against Asteelflash, the Broward County Public Schools, Applus Technologies, Pierre Fabre, and Harris Federation, with many of
FBI Arrests Man For Plan To Kill “70% Of Internet” In AWS Bomb Attack The FBI arrested a Texas man on Thursday for allegedly planning to “kill of about 70% of the internet” in a bomb attack targeting an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center on Smith Switch Road in Ashburn, Virginia. Seth Aaron Pendley,
Attackers Deliver Legal Threats, IcedID Malware Via Contact Forms Threat actors are using legitimate corporate contact forms to send phishing emails that threaten enterprise targets with lawsuits and attempt to infect them with the IcedID info-stealing malware. IcedID is a modular banking trojan first spotted in 2017 and updated to also deploy second-stage malware payloads, including Trickbot, Qakbot, and Ryuk