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The Week in Ransomware – February 18th 2022 – Mergers & Acquisitions The big news this week is that the Conti ransomware gang has recruited the core developers and managers of the TrickBot group, the developers of the notorious TrickBot malware. This recruitment drive now allows the Conti ransomware gang to focus on developing further
Today, the White House has linked the recent DDoS attacks that knocked down the sites of Ukrainian banks and defense agencies to Russia’s Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (also known as GRU). “The US government believes that Russian cyber actors likely have targeted the Ukrainian government, including military and critical
A new Golang-based botnet under active development has been ensnaring hundreds of Windows devices each time its operators deploy a new command and control (C2) server. First spotted in October 2021 by ZeroFox researchers who dubbed it Kraken, this previously unknown botnet uses the SmokeLoader backdoor and malware downloader to spread to new Windows systems. After infecting a new
Iranian Hackers Target VMware Horizon Servers with Log4j Exploits An Iranian-aligned hacking group tracked as TunnelVision was spotted exploiting Log4j on VMware Horizon servers to breach corporate networks in the Middle East and the United States. Security analysts at SentinelLabs who have been tracking the activity chose that name due to the group’s heavy reliance