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Add 'ransomware' to the list of certainties in life? Notorious ransomware gang LockBit claims to have compromised eFile.com, which offers online services for electronically filing tax returns with...
Insight The developers of EvilProxy - a phishing kit dubbed the "LockBit of phishing" - have produced guides on using legitimate Cloudflare services to disguise malicious traffic. "In recent months, Proofpoint has observed a significant increase in EvilProxy campaigns that use Cloudflare services to disguise their traffic, which prevents automated sandbox detection and ensures only targeted human users interact with the phishing links to receive the credential phishing landing pages," Blackford explained.
Two Russian nationals have pleaded guilty in a U.S. court for their participation as affiliates in the LockBit ransomware scheme and helping facilitate ransomware attacks across the world. The development comes more than two months after the U.K. National Crime Agency unmasked a 31-year-old Russian national named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the administrator and developer of the LockBit ransomware operation.
Two Russian nations have pleaded guilty to involvement in many LockBit ransomware attacks, which targeted victims worldwide and across the United States. LockBit affiliates like Vasiliev and Astamirov would identify and breach vulnerable systems on victims' networks, steal sensitive stored data, and help deploy ransomware payloads to encrypt files.
Evolve Bank & Trust says the data of more than 7.6 million customers was stolen during the LockBit break-in in late May, per a fresh filing with Maine's attorney general. It's the first time Evolve has confirmed the scale of the data theft - which affected at least three of its major partners, past and present - and it expects the number to rise as its investigations continue.
A cryptographic weakness in the DoNex ransomware and its previous incarnations - Muse, fake LockBit 3.0, and DarkRace - has allowed Avast researchers to create a decryptor for files encrypted by all those ransomware variants. "In cooperation with law enforcement organizations, we have been silently providing the decryptor to DoNex ransomware victims since March 2024," the company's Threat Research Team has shared on Monday.
Infosys McCamish Systems disclosed that the LockBit ransomware attack it suffered earlier this year impacted sensitive information of more than six million individuals. In February 2024, IMS informed the public that it had been hit by a ransomware in November 2023, which resulted in the compromise of the personal data of about 57,000 Bank of America customers.
Recently-disrupted LockBit ransomware group, in what appears to be a desperate attempt to make a comeback, claimed this week that it had hit US Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States. The tall claim was followed up with LockBit stating it had stolen 33 terabytes of sensitive banking information belonging to Americans and that negotiations were ongoing.
Ransomware attackers wielding a LockBit variant dubbed Brain Cipher have disrupted a temporary national data center facility which supports the operations of 200+ Indonesian government agencies and public services. Indonesia is working on creating four national data centers to support digital government efforts.
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