Hive Ransomware
Hive Ransomware gang website seized by FBI and Europol
In what comes as a surprise to criminals operating in the cyberworld, the website that used to act as a data leak platform for hive ransomware gang seems in control of the US law enforcement now. According to the notice witnessed on the website, the URL has been seized and its operations have been shut […]
Ransomware Attack news headlines trending on Google
The first one is a report released by the FBI stating the earning details of Hive Ransomware Group. FBI issued a joint advisory along with CISA that the said hacking group extorted more than $100m in this financial year by infecting over 1300 victims in 15 months starting from June’21.Victims list include government organizations, communication […]
Malware related news headlines trending on Google
First is the news about Hive Ransomware targeting the New York Racing Association (NYRA) on 30th of June this year that resulted in disruption of IT services, including the website. Interestingly, the accessed records by the threat actors include health info, health insurance records, Social Security Numbers, and Driving License numbers of customers. NYRA is […]
Cyber Attack news headlines trending on Google
The first news headline that is trending on Google belongs to Costa Rica Government websites. Information is out that Costa Rica’s Public Health System was recently targeted by Hive Ransomware and the incident happened just after a few days of attack by Conti Ransomware Group. Going deep into the details, Costa Rican Social Security Fund […]
Hive Ransomware deployed on Microsoft Exchange Servers
Vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Servers is allowing hackers to deploy hive ransomware and other backdoors, including Cobalt Strike Beacon, having capabilities of stealing cryptocurrency from wallets and deploy crypto mining software. It is all happening because of ProxyShell Security issues where threat actors perform network reconnaissance to download payloads. Security analytics firm Varonis discovered the […]
Ransomware news headlines trending on Google
1.) Notorious Hive Ransomware group has published details of 850,000 patient records belonging to Partnership HealthPlan of California and said that a portion of data will be sold on the dark web, if the healthcare provider doesn’t bow down to its ransom demands. As an incident response, the Partnership HealthPlan of California says that it […]
Ransomware Attack on MediaMarkt
MediaMarkt, the Europe’s number one consumer online retailer, has admitted that its IT infrastructure is working abnormally under the influence of a sophisticated cyber attack that appears to be of ransomware variant. The file encrypting malware attack started on Monday morning this week when several employees were unable to access systems and were informed not […]
Important information about Ragnarok Ransomware and Hive Ransomware
Ragnarok Ransomware that was active since 2019 has made it official that it is going to shut its operations by this month’s end. The file encrypting malware group has also released a decryption key for zero cost to help victims clean up their databases. Ragnarok aka Asnarok, released the decryption key on one of the […]
Names of new ransomware groups that are on rise
All these days the government agencies and corporate networks were busy in combating known ransomware groups such as REvil, Conti, DarkSide, CLOP and Egregor along with Babuk, DopplePaymer and Ragnar. Now, a report released by the security firm Palo Alto Networks has confirmed that the list needs to have 4 new names added to list […]
