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A joint cybersecurity advisory from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Health and Human services and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center was recently released to provide more information about the Black Basta ransomware. According to cybersecurity company SentinelOne, Black Basta is highly likely tied to FIN7, a threat actor also known as "Carbanak," active since 2012 and affiliated with several ransomware operations.
Interview On Wednesday the FBI and international cops celebrated yet another cybercrime takedown - of ransomware brokerage site BreachForums - just a week after doxing and imposing sanctions on the LockBit ransomware crew's kingpin, and two months after compromising the gang's website. While the BreachForums shutdown didn't have quite the swagger of the LockBit seizure in February, it did brag the stolen data marketplace "Is under control of the FBI" and include profile pics of website admins Baphomet and ShinyHunters.
The US Justice Department had unsealed charges against a US woman and an Ukranian man who, along with three unidentified foreign nationals, have allegedly helped North Korean IT workers work remotely for US companies under assumed US identities and thus evade sanctions. According to the court documents, the conspirators defrauded over 300 US companies by using US payment platforms and online job site accounts, proxy computers located in the United States, and witting and unwitting US persons and entities.
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Interestingly, the RAT module is fetched twice from the attacker-controlled infrastructure, the first of which is just used to load the Waterbear plugin that subsequently launches a different version of the Waterbear downloader to retrieve the RAT module from another C&C server. Put differently, the first Waterbear RAT serves as a downloader while the second Waterbear RAT functions as a backdoor, harvesting sensitive information from the compromised host through a set of 60 commands.
The FBI has seized the BreachForums website, used by ransomware criminals to leak stolen corporate data. The FBI is requesting victims and individuals contact them with information about the hacking forum and its members to aid in their investigation.
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