July 13, 2022

Japanese Game publishing giant Bandai Namco confirms hack after BlackCat ransomware data leak posting

On Wednesday 13th of July 2022, the Japanese Game publishing giant Bandai Namco confirmed that they experienced a cyberattack on Sunday 3rd of July 2022 where the threat actors breached internal systems for offices in Asian regions, other than Japan. Bandai Namco also stated there is a possibility that customer information has been stolen by the threat actors. On Monday […]
July 6, 2022

The University of Maastricht recovers ransom payment from the 2019 ransomware attack

On Saturday 2nd of July 2022, the University of Maastricht announced they had managed to successfully recover a ransom they had paid from a ransomware attack against the university that occurred on December 23, 2019. The ransom demand was 30 Bitcoins which at the time was worth about 197,000 euros ($218,000). But in April this year, the Dutch public prosecution […]
July 4, 2022

AstraLocker ransomware announces shutdown and releases decryptors

This week, the threat actor behind the lesser-known AstraLocker ransomware has reported telling the technology news outlet, BleepingComputer that they are shutting down the operation and plan to switch to cryptojacking. As well as shutting down the operation, the developer also submitted a ZIP archive which contained AstraLocker decryptors to the VirusTotal malware analysis platform. The decryptors have been confirmed […]
June 29, 2022

Ex-Canadian government employee linked to NetWalker Ransomware crew pleads guilty to U.S. ransomware charges

On Tuesday 28th of June 2022, 34-year-old Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins pleaded guilty in a US court to conspiring to commit computer and wire fraud, intentionally damaged a protected computer, and transmitted a demand in relation to damaging a protected computer. The former Canadian government employee has been described as “one of the most prolific NetWalker Ransomware affiliates” responsible for extorting said millions […]
June 28, 2022

Black Basta ransomware gang are on track to become a highly dangerous group after hitting 50 organisations in just two months

Two recent reports by cyber security researchers have revealed that the new ransomware group known as Black Basta have claimed to have successfully attacked 50 victims in just two months while also revealing that the new group has links to veteran gangs like REvil and Conti. “The Black Basta gang has added nearly 50 victims to their list as of […]
June 28, 2022

Research reveals that Chinese APT are using short-lived ransomware variants as a disguise for cyberespionage activities

On the 23rd of June 2022, cybersecurity researchers from Secureworks published new research which named several ransomware variants which have been identified as being used by a state-backed hacking group with China-linked origins known as ‘Bronze Starlight’ to disguise the true objective of their attacks that is for conducting cyberespionage activities. The research looked into HUI Loader, which is a […]
June 27, 2022

Sensitive health data leaked after ransomware attack against Fitzgibbon Hospital

On Saturday 25th of June 2022, information pointing to an attack on Fitzgibbon Hospital in Missouri was discovered. The group “Daixin Team” have claimed responsibility for the attack via their onion site which contained files allegedly stolen from Fitzgibbon. Based on the leaked files, the Daixin Team had claimed to have exfiltrated 40 GB of data which contained numerous files […]
May 6, 2022

AGCO, US agricultural machinery maker announces they suffered a ransomware attack

On Thursday 5th of May 2022, AGCO, one of the leading US-based agricultural machinery producers suffered a ransomware attack which resulted in some of their production facilities being impacted. This incident was announced on Friday 6th of May 2022 in a press release where AGCO stated that their business operations will be affected for several days whilst they repair their […]
April 29, 2022

A Possible ransomware attack against the service provider of a popular online Library app, Onleihe led to problems

On Tuesday 26th of April 2022, Onleihe, a popular Library lending app announces they experienced problems which could have been related to their service provider, EKZ who suffered a cyber-attack on Monday 18th of April 2022. The incident led to the outage of EKZ systems which impacted the websites: ekz.de, ekz.at, ekz.fr, divibib.com, the divibib user forum, the divibib Pentaho […]