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The Clop ransomware gang has once again altered extortion tactics and is now using torrents to leak data stolen in MOVEit attacks. On June 14th, the ransomware gang began extorting its victims, slowly adding names to their Tor data leak site and eventually publicly releasing the files.
Threat actors are abusing Google's Looker Studio to boost search engine rankings for their illicit websites that promote spam, torrents, and pirated content. BleepingComputer has come across several pages of Google search results flooded with datastudio.
Named "Torrents of Truth," the initiative is similar to "Call Russia," a project to help break through Russian propaganda and open people's eyes to what's happening in Ukraine. The initiative creates torrents that contain a text file with a list of credible news sources that Russians can trust and instructions on downloading and installing a VPN to secure anonymity from ISPs.
A team of Ukrainian cyber-activists has thought of a simple yet potentially effective way to spread uncensored information in Russia: bundling torrents with text and video files pretending to include installation instructions. The initiative creates torrents that contain a text file with a list of credible news sources that Russians can trust and instructions on downloading and installing a VPN to secure anonymity from ISPs.
An ongoing malware distribution campaign targeting South Korea is disguising RATs as an adult game shared via webhards and torrents. The attackers are using easily obtainable malware such as njRAT and UDP RAT, wrap them in a package that appears like a game or other program, and then upload them on webhards.
Cybercriminals have taken notice as well, increasingly lacing popular movie torrents with dangerous malware that can damage your device. In a recent thread on Twitter, Microsoft Security Intelligence wrote at length that the team saw malware attached to torrents for popular "John Wick 3" and "Contagion" in Spain, Mexico, and a number of South American countries.
The authors have tweaked a known piece of malware to specifically target Korean TV fans.
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