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Kia Motors Outages Caused by DoppelPaymer Ransomware

18 February 2021

According to BleepingComputer, Kia Motors America has suffered a ransomware attack by the DoppelPaymer gang, demanding $20 million for a decryptor and...

Clop Ransomware Leaks Stolen Files from Jones Day Law Firm

17 February 2021

According to SecurityWeek, a group of cybercriminals known for ransomware attacks has started leaking files allegedly stolen from Jones Day, a major U.S.-based...

Egregor Ransomware Affiliates Arrested in Ukraine

15 February 2021

After Maze ransomware group announced “retirement”, it was widely speculated among security researchers that the group rebranded to a better version of...

DarkSide Ransomware Group is Still Looming

15 February 2021

According to BleepingComputer, Canadian Discount Car and Truck Rentals has been hit with a DarkSide ransomware attack where the hackers claim to have stolen...

Ransomware Attack Forces Therapy Institution into Bankruptcy

12 February 2021

According to security researcher, Graham Cluley, “Vastaamo, the Finnish psychotherapy practice that covered up a horrific security breach which resulted...

RansomExx Ransomware Group Performs Disruptive Attack

11 February 2021

According to Bleeping Computer, French health insurance company Mutuelle Nationale des Hospitaliers (MNH) has suffered a ransomware attack that has severely...

Law Enforcement Apprehend Creator of the World’s Largest Phishing Campaign

10 February 2021

According to The Hacker News, law enforcement officials in Ukraine, in coordination with authorities from the U.S. and Australia, last week shut down one...

HelloKitty Ransomware Auctioning Source Code for Cyberpunk and Witcher

10 February 2021

According to BleepingComputer.com, Threat actors are auctioning the alleged source code for CD Projekt Red games, including Witcher 3, Thronebreaker, and...

What Factors Contributed to the Decline of the Average Ransomware Payment?

05 February 2021

At SpearTip, along with the incident response industry, we experienced, for the first time in two years, a decline of average ransomware payments in Q4...

NetWalker Affiliate Charged, Dark Website Revoked

28 January 2021

NetWalker ransomware group will be facing a tough road ahead after law enforcement brought the hammer down by discontinuing their dark web leak site and...

Emotet Operations Disrupted After International Takedown

27 January 2021

Emotet, which may be considered the most infamous botnet, was taken down in an operation coordinated by Europol, the FBI, and the UK National Crime Agency....

DDoS and Ransomware: A Disastrous Combination

25 January 2021

A ransomware and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack combination can be a recipe for disaster. One particular ransomware group, Avaddon, has recently...

Over a Thousand Passwords left Unprotected after Phishing Campaign

21 January 2021

Threat actors are very intelligent when it comes to infiltrating and phishing, but this doesn’t mean they won’t make mistakes. Researchers at two security...

How Did Threat Actors Attack This Cybersecurity Firm?

20 January 2021

The team of over 600 malware hunters, software engineers, and security industry veterans, confirmed being attacked on Tuesday, Jan. 19. Malwarebytes claims,...

COVID Vaccine Data Targeted Again by Threat Actors

14 January 2021

With vaccines for COVID-19 being deployed worldwide, threat actors are targeting the data surrounding it. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced...

Supposed Leak Site May Have SolarWinds Breach Data

14 January 2021

The threat actors behind the SolarWinds breach may have launched a website to sell the data taken from the cyberattack. It may not be up for much longer,...

Home Appliance Company, Whirlpool, Endures Ransomware Attack

28 December 2020

The home appliance company, Whirlpool, confirmed a ransomware attack and explained they will be slowly bringing back systems until all are restored. With...

North Korean Threat Actors Target COVID-19 Vaccine Research

24 December 2020

Intelligence is certainly valuable and North Korean, government-connected threat actors have been trying to obtain it. Two different incidents at a pharmaceutical...

Emotet Returns in High Volume Before Christmas

24 December 2020

Emotet returns at a rate of 100,000 targets a day. Starting as a banking trojan in 2014, Emotet has come and gone through the years. They will be very...

3 VPN Providers Taken Down Immediately

22 December 2020

Cybercriminals use one of three VPN services to attack their victims. All three VPN service providers have been confiscated by US, Germany, France, Switzerland,...

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