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Microsoft has linked the Clop ransomware gang to recent attacks exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer platform to steal data from organizations. "Microsoft is attributing attacks exploiting the CVE-2023-34362 MOVEit Transfer 0-day vulnerability to Lace Tempest, known for ransomware operations & running the Clop extortion site," the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team tweeted Sunday night.
A financially motivated cybercriminal group known as FIN7 resurfaced last month, with Microsoft threat analysts linking it to attacks where the end goal was the deployment of Clop ransomware payloads on victims' networks. "The group was observed deploying the Clop ransomware in opportunistic attacks in April 2023, its first ransomware campaign since late 2021.".
It has been a very quiet week for ransomware news, with only a few reports released and not much info about cyberattacks. An item of interest was Microsoft linking the recent PaperCut server attacks on the Clop and LockBit ransomware operation.
Clop and LockBit ransomware affiliates are behind the recent attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in PaperCut application servers, according to Microsoft and Trend Micro researchers."Microsoft is attributing the recently reported attacks exploiting the CVE-2023-27350 and CVE-2023-27351 vulnerabilities in print management software PaperCut to deliver Clop ransomware to the threat actor tracked as Lace Tempest," Microsoft shared.
Microsoft has attributed recent attacks on PaperCut servers to the Clop and LockBit ransomware operations, which used the vulnerabilities to steal corporate data. Today, Microsoft disclosed that the Clop and LockBit ransomware gangs are behind these PaperCut attacks and using them to steal corporate data from vulnerable servers.
Microsoft has attributed recent attacks on PaperCut servers to the Clop and LockBit ransomware operations, which used the vulnerabilities to steal corporate data. Today, Microsoft disclosed that the Clop and LockBit ransomware gangs are behind these PaperCut attacks and using them to steal corporate data from vulnerable servers.
Microsoft has attributed recent attacks on PaperCut servers to the Clop and LockBit ransomware operations, which used the vulnerabilities to steal corporate data. Today, Microsoft disclosed that the Clop and LockBit ransomware gangs are behind these PaperCut attacks and using them to steal corporate data from vulnerable servers.
Finally, we saw some reports on ransomware released this week about the ACL scareware pretending to be ransomware and a write-up on the DarkPower gang. March 21st 2023 LockBit ransomware gang now also claims City of Oakland breach.
City of Toronto is among Clop ransomware gang's latest victims hit in the ongoing GoAnywhere hacking spree.The Clop ransomware gang has hit City of Toronto in its ongoing attacks targeting organizatiosn running the vulnerable GoAnywhere file transfer utility.
The Clop ransomware gang claims to have attacked Saks Fifth Avenue on its dark web leak site.Although the company states no real customer data is impacted, it did not address if corporate or employee data was stolen.