BlackMatter hits Olympus
Olympus is recovering from a ransomware attack that began in the early morning of September 8. Olympus manufactures optical and digital reprography technology for the medical and life sciences industries…
Ransomware Planting for $1M
Nigerian threat actor attempting to recruit employees by offering them to pay $1 million in Bitcoin to deploy Black Kingdom ransomware on companies. The sender tells the employee that if…
Haron & BlackMatter Emerges
Two new ransomware-as-service (RaaS) programs have appeared on the threat radar this month, with one group professing to be a successor to DarkSide and REvil. They incorporated in itself the…
Website to Promote Ransomware Business
The recent ban of ransomware ads on well-known Russian speaking cybercrime forums has forced cybercriminals to promote their service using alternative methods. Two ransomware gangs, identified as Himalaya and LockBit,…
XSS Bans Raas
A popular Russian-language criminal forum has claimed it will ban the sale of ransomware tools, after colonial pipeline attack. Ransomware was attracting too much “hype” and attention from outsiders, but…
DarkSide Ceases Operation
The ransomware group deemed responsible for the days long shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline said it would cease operations.The group sends message to hacking affiliates that it was shutting down…
RaaS landscape widens
Ransomware-as-a-Service is a cyber-security term referring to criminal gangs that rent ransomware to other groups, either via a dedicated portal or via threads on hacking forums. RaaS portals work by…