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Garmin Still Won’t Say “Ransomware Attack”

SecureWorld News

First: The incident was a ransomware attack. Second: Garmin seems to have an allergy to the word "ransomware.". The company still refuses to say, or type, the word “ransomware.” Data and screenshots reveal that ransomware strain WastedLocker is behind the attack. Did Garmin pay a ransom? in.ransomware. What was effected?

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Smooth Cybercriminals: Google Warns of Iran-Backed APT Hackers

SecureWorld News

With numbers like that and a focus on ransomware, it is easy to see why Russia is owning most of the headlines. One notorious hacking group from Iran uses particularly dirty schemes to fleece users, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Read Google's official TAG blog to learn more about the technical details.

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Maze Ransomware Operators: 'We Are Closing'

SecureWorld News

The Maze ransomware team, a pioneer in the cybercrime space, claims it is shutting down operations. This made Maze unique as the operators encrypted files on a corporate network with ransomware, making them inaccessible and also extracted the data and threatened to make the data public if the ransom was not paid.

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Germany shuts down servers for Russian darknet marketplace Hydra

The Verge

Treasuremen,” or dealers connected with the site, push drugs throughout the region by hiding them in geo-tagged pickup locations. The market primarily caters to criminals in Russia and surrounding nations. Hydra has the highest turnover rate out of any illegal market in the world.

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Bad Actor Using New Method to Avert Detection, Google Discovers

SecureWorld News

Whether it is ransomware, other types of malware, or any number of cyberattacks, threat actors keep inventing new techniques to cause disruption. In these new samples, the signature was edited such that an End of Content (EOC) marker replaced a NULL tag for the 'parameters' element of the SignatureAlgorithm signing the leaf X.509

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CIOs Have To Treat Social Media With Care

The Accidental Successful CIO

They could also send you insider details about service providers like your health-insurance company, so they can launch a ransomware attack. Don’t tag images. They can also search on Twitter for tags like “#LifeAtCompanyX” to get intel on you or your business. And so on it goes.

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Ingenious Phishing Tactics in the Modern Scammer's Toolbox

SecureWorld News

It serves as a vessel for various strains of malware, including ransomware, and underlies data-stealing campaigns that target large organizations and individuals alike. The catch was that the document contained a function to transform these gibberish-looking symbols into hexadecimal values that denoted specific JavaScript tags.

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