The Week in Ransomware - October 27th 2023 - Breaking Records
Ransomware
2023-10-28 1 comment

The Week in Ransomware – October 27th 2023 – Breaking Records

Ransomware attacks are increasing significantly, with reports indicating that last month was a record month for ransomware attacks in 2023. According to NCC Group data, ransomware groups launched 514 attacks in September, surpassing March 2023 activity, which included 459 attacks that were heavily skewed by Clop’s Fortra GoAnywhere data theft attacks. This increase in attacks was also seen by Check Point Software, who said they are seeing a 3% increase in attacks for […]

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Hackers earn over $1 million for 58 zero-days at Pwn2Own Toronto

The Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking competition has ended with security researchers earning $1,038,500 for 58 zero-day exploits (and multiple bug collisions) targeting consumer products between October 24 and October 27. During the Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking event organized by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), security researchers targeted mobile and IoT devices. The complete list includes mobile phones (i.e., the Apple iPhone 14, Google Pixel 7, Samsung Galaxy S23, and Xiaomi 13 […]

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Cyber security
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Google Expands Its Bug Bounty Program to Tackle Artificial Intelligence Threats

Google Expands Its Bug Bounty Program Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP) to compensate researchers for finding attack scenarios tailored to generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems in an effort to bolster AI safety and security. “Generative AI raises new and different concerns than traditional digital security, such as the potential for unfair bias, model manipulation or misinterpretations of data (hallucinations),” Google’s Laurie Richardson and Royal Hansen said. Some of the categories that are in […]

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N. Korean Lazarus Group Targets Software Vendor Using Known Flaws

The North Korea-aligned Lazarus Group has been attributed as behind a new campaign in which an unnamed software vendor was compromised through the exploitation of known security flaws in another high-profile software. The attack sequences, according to Kaspersky, culminated in the deployment of malware families such as SIGNBT and LPEClient, a known hacking tool used by the threat actor for victim profiling and payload delivery. “The adversary demonstrated a high level of sophistication, […]

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Cyber crime
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Researchers Uncover Wiretapping of XMPP-Based Instant Messaging Service

New findings have shed light on what’s said to be a lawful attempt to covertly intercept traffic originating from jabber[.]ru (aka xmpp[.]ru), an XMPP-based instant messaging service, via servers hosted on Hetzner and Linode (a subsidiary of Akamai) in Germany. “The attacker has issued several new TLS certificates using Let’s Encrypt service which were used to hijack encrypted STARTTLS connections on port 5222 using transparent [man-in-the-middle] proxy,” a security researcher who goes by […]

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