On Monday afternoon, the U.S. Department of Justice said it had confiscated much of the cryptocurrency ransom that U.S. pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline paid to a Russian hacker collective called DarkSide last month by tracking the payment as it passed through various Hacker group accounts hiked, and eventually broke into one of those accounts with … Read more
Last month’s oil pipeline ransomware incident that resulted in fuel shortages / hoarding and a payout of $ 4.4 to the attackers was apparently attributed to an unused but still active VPN login. Mandiant manager Charles Carmakal told Bloomberg that their analysis of the attack revealed that suspicious activity on the Colonial Pipeline network began … Read more
According to Bleeping Computer, The Record and other sources, the REvil ransomware gang has claimed $ 50 million from Taiwanese computer maker Acer and may have exploited a Microsoft Exchange vulnerability to gain access to the corporate network. This is one of the biggest – if not the biggest – ransomware requests likely because Acer … Read more