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	2023-06-21 09:00:37	Clopl Ransomware exploite le logiciel Moveit CLOP Ransomware exploits MOVEit software (lien direct)	> Vous avez peut-être entendu récemment dans les nouvelles que plusieurs organisations, dont des banques, des agences fédérales et des entités d'entreprise, ont souffert ... > You may have heard recently in the news that several organizations, including banks, federal agencies, and corporate entities, have suffered...	Ransomware		★★
	2023-05-02 11:51:05	7 conseils pour protéger vos appareils et vos informations privées contre les ransomwares 7 Tips to Protect Your Devices and Private Information from Ransomware (lien direct)	> Imaginez que vous souhaitez tirer un certain fichier sur votre ordinateur.Vous cliquez sur le fichier et soudain ... > Imagine that you want to pull up a certain file on your computer. You click on the file and suddenly...	Ransomware		★★
	2023-04-14 15:43:04	Comment empêcher les ransomwares How To Prevent Ransomware (lien direct)	> ransomware.Même le nom semble effrayant.Lorsque vous y arrivez, le ransomware est l'une des attaques les plus méchantes a ... > Ransomware. Even the name sounds scary. When you get down to it, ransomware is one of the nastiest attacks a...	Ransomware		★
	2023-01-09 11:18:26	Your Guide to Ransomware-and Preventing It Too (lien direct)	> Ransomware. Even the name sounds scary. When you get down to it, ransomware is one of the nastiest attacks a...	Ransomware		★★
	2022-10-25 00:38:53	Ransomware Masquerading as Microsoft Update Targets Home Computers (lien direct)	> A new ransomware threat is currently sweeping its way across home computers. And what's making it extra tricky is that...	Ransomware Threat
	2022-09-27 11:09:53	All-New Ransomware Coverage Opens Up the Path to Recovery (lien direct)	> Our all-new ransomware coverage is now available, ready to help just in case-all backed by expert advice to help you...	Ransomware
	2022-07-25 11:06:59	What Are Ransomware Attacks? An In-Depth Guide (lien direct)	> We all love to spend time surfing the web - whether we're shopping, paying bills, or reacting to funny memes....	Ransomware
	2022-03-24 18:09:09	Smart Tips for Staying Safer Online (lien direct)	The recent WannaCry ransomware attack that infected more than 250,000 computers worldwide was a good reminder to everyone about staying...	Ransomware	Wannacry Wannacry
	2021-10-25 21:26:37	Staying Cyber Aware and Safer from Ransomware (lien direct)	Ransomware – A truly frightening cyber security topic It’s October, and at McAfee we love celebrating spooky season. As McAfee's Chief Technology Officer,...	Ransomware
	2021-10-19 04:01:35	Is There Really Such a Thing as a Low-Paid Ransomware Operator? (lien direct)	Introduction Going by recent headlines you could be forgiven for thinking all ransomware operators are raking in millions of ill-gotten...	Ransomware
	2021-10-04 04:01:48	McAfee Enterprise Advanced Threat Research Report: Ransomware\'s Increasing Prevalence (lien direct)	The increasing prevalence of ransomware tops the findings of the McAfee Enterprise Advanced Threat Research Report: October 2021 released today....	Ransomware Threat
	2021-09-22 14:54:36	BlackMatter Ransomware Analysis; The Dark Side Returns (lien direct)	BlackMatter is a new ransomware threat discovered at the end of July 2021. This malware started with a strong group...	Ransomware Malware Threat
	2021-07-29 04:01:36	Babuk: Biting off More than they Could Chew by Aiming to Encrypt VM and *nix Systems? (lien direct)	Co-written with Northwave's Noël Keijzer. Executive Summary For a long time, ransomware gangs were mostly focused on Microsoft Windows operating systems. Yes, we observed the occasional dedicated Unix or Linux based ransomware, but cross-platform ransomware was not happening yet. However, cybercriminals never sleep and in recent months we noticed that several ransomware gangs were experimenting […]	Ransomware
	2021-07-20 04:01:28	Fighting new Ransomware Techniques with McAfee\'s Latest Innovations (lien direct)	In 2021 ransomware attacks have been dominant among the bigger cyber security stories. Hence, I was not surprized to see that McAfee's June 2021 Threat report is primarily focused on this topic. This report provides a large range of statistics using the McAfee data lake behind MVISION Insights, including the Top MITRE ATT&CK Techniques. In […]	Ransomware Threat
	2021-07-16 16:49:41	REvil Ransomware Uses DLL Sideloading (lien direct)	This blog was written byVaradharajan Krishnasamy, Karthickkumar, Sakshi Jaiswal Introduction Ransomware attacks are one of the most common cyber-attacks among organizations; due to an increase in Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) on the black market. RaaS provides readily available ransomware to cyber criminals and is an effective way for attackers to deploy a variety of ransomware in a […]	Ransomware
	2021-07-07 04:01:34	New Ryuk Ransomware Sample Targets Webservers (lien direct)	Executive Summary Ryuk is a ransomware that encrypts a victim's files and requests payment in Bitcoin cryptocurrency to release the keys used for encryption. Ryuk is used exclusively in targeted ransomware attacks. Ryuk was first observed in August 2018 during a campaign that targeted several enterprises. Analysis of the initial versions of the ransomware revealed […]	Ransomware
	2021-06-29 15:00:34	How to Proactively Increase Your Protection Against Ransomware with Threat Intelligence (lien direct)	As Ransomware continues to spread and target organizations around the world, it is critical to leverage threat intelligence data. And not just any threat intelligence but actionable intelligence from MVISION Insights. Fortunately, there are several steps you can take to proactively increase your Endpoint Security to help minimize damage from the next Darkside, WannaCry, Ryuk, […]	Ransomware Threat	Wannacry
	2021-06-28 20:00:16	5 Ransomware Threats Canadians Need to Know (lien direct)	Every day you place your personal information in the hands of companies and trust that it will remain safe. However, what happens when external threats jeopardize your personal data security, especially while working remotely? The transition to remote work environments and consumers' online habits have made it more difficult for Canadian employees and consumers to protect their personal information. This challenge is primarily […]	Ransomware
	2021-06-24 04:01:11	McAfee Labs Report Highlights Ransomware Threats (lien direct)	The McAfee Advanced Threat Research team today published the McAfee Labs Threats Report: June 2021. In this edition we introduce additional context into the biggest stories dominating the year thus far including recent ransomware attacks. While the topic itself is not new, there is no question that the threat is now truly mainstream. This Threats […]	Ransomware Threat
	2021-06-03 21:39:17	8 Tips for Staying Safe from Ransomware Attacks (lien direct)	What is Ransomware? Over the past year, you may have seen the term ransomware popping up frequently. For enterprising hackers, this once uncommon tactic has become standard operating procedure, and with good reason – it pays. Ransomware is malware that employs encryption to hold a victim's information at ransom. The hacker uses it to encrypt […]	Ransomware Malware
	2021-05-27 18:27:17	Why May 2021 Represents a New Chapter in the “Book of Cybersecurity Secrets” (lien direct)	May 2021 has been an extraordinary month in the cybersecurity world, with the DoD releasing its DoD Zero Trust Reference Architecture (DoDZTRA), the Colonial Pipeline being hit with a ransomware attack, and the White House releasing its Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO). Add to that several major vendors that our government depends […]	Ransomware
	2021-05-14 10:32:09	DarkSide Ransomware Victims Sold Short (lien direct)	Over the past week we have seen a considerable body of work focusing on DarkSide, the ransomware responsible for the recent gas pipeline shutdown. Many of the excellent technical write-ups will detail how it operates an affiliate model that supports others to be involved within the ransomware business model (in addition to the developers). While […]	Ransomware
	2021-04-30 15:48:40	Ransomware Task Force Releases its Comprehensive Framework for Action (lien direct)	Since ransomware's introduction in 1989 in the form of the AIDS Trojan, also known as PS Cyborg, distributed on diskettes, ransomware has continually increased and evolved into a heinous threat to our national security, public safety, and to our economic and public health. With ransoms paid in 2020 reaching more than $300+ million, it has […]	Ransomware Threat
	2021-04-06 17:00:47	McAfee ATR Threat Report: A Quick Primer on Cuba Ransomware (lien direct)	Executive Summary Cuba ransomware is an older ransomware, that has recently undergone some development. The actors have incorporated the leaking of victim data to increase its impact and revenue, much like we have seen recently with other major ransomware campaigns. In our analysis, we observed that the attackers had access to the network before the infection and were able to collect specific information […]	Ransomware Threat
	2021-04-06 17:00:03	McAfee Defender\'s Blog: Cuba Ransomware Campaign (lien direct)	Cuba Ransomware Overview Over the past year, we have seen ransomware attackers change the way they have responded to organizations that have either chosen to not pay the ransom or have recovered their data via some other means. At the end of the day, fighting ransomware has resulted in the bad actors' loss of revenue. […]	Ransomware
	2021-03-31 21:25:03	Prioritizing Security in a Remote Learning Environment (lien direct)	Prioritizing Security in a Remote Learning Environment Learning environments are not what they used to be, and as educational institutions deploy new technology to facilitate a safe and effective remote learning environment, their cyber vulnerabilities also increase. Canadian schools especially have seen a rise in ransomware attacks with the transition to online learning, opening the […]	Ransomware
	2021-02-24 05:01:46	Babuk Ransomware (lien direct)	Executive Summary Babuk ransomware is a new ransomware threat discovered in 2021 that has impacted at least five big enterprises, with one already paying the criminals $85,000 after negotiations. As with other variants, this ransomware is deployed in the network of enterprises that the criminals carefully target and compromise. Using MVISION Insights, McAfee was able […]	Ransomware Threat
	2020-10-29 17:05:49	Catch the Most Sophisticated Attacks Without Slowing Down Your Users (lien direct)	Most businesses cannot survive without being connected to the internet or the cloud. Websites and cloud services enable employees to communicate, collaborate, research, organize, archive, create, and be productive. Yet, the digital connection is also a threat. External attacks on cloud accounts increased by an astounding 630% in 2019. Ransomware and phishing remain major headaches […]	Ransomware
	2020-08-27 15:00:18	Why Ransomware Targets No Longer Need to Wind Up as Ransomware Victims (lien direct)	It was every administrator's worst nightmare. A small district hospital in western Colorado lost access to 5 years' worth of patient records after ransomware attackers exploited holes in an aging infrastructure to strike. But it was also an increasingly familiar story as ransomware attackers escalate their attacks and go after targets across all sectors of […]	Ransomware		★★★
	2020-08-26 16:35:02	Understand and Manage Pesky Persistent Threats (lien direct)	Ransomware Evolution to Most Promising Victim (MPV) Attacks Ransomware cost businesses over $11.5 B with a 500% increase in attacks in 2019 according to Forrester Research. It's your persistent threat. Ransomware is a type of malicious software that infects a computer and restricts users' access to it and their data until a ransom is paid […]	Ransomware		★★
	2020-08-26 00:28:08	Ransomware Could Be the New Data Breach: 5 Tips to Stay Secure (lien direct)	Cybercriminals tend to keep with the times, as they often leverage current events as a way to harvest user data or spread malicious content. McAfee COVID-19 Threat Report July 2020 points to a rather significant surge in attacks exploiting the current pandemic with COVID-19 themed malicious apps, phishing campaigns, malware, and ransomware. However, what many users don't realize is that ransomware attacks are a […]	Ransomware Threat		★★★★
	2019-11-08 12:00:53	Spanish MSSP Targeted by BitPaymer Ransomware (lien direct)	Initial Discovery This week the news hit that several companies in Spain were hit by a ransomware attack. Ransomware attacks themselves are not new but, by interacting with one of the cases in Spain, we want to highlight in this blog how well prepared and targeted an attack can be and how it appears to […]	Ransomware
	2019-11-05 17:37:32	Buran Ransomware; the Evolution of VegaLocker (lien direct)	McAfee's Advanced Threat Research Team observed how a new ransomware family named 'Buran' appeared in May 2019. Buran works as a RaaS model like other ransomware families such as REVil, GandCrab (now defunct), Phobos, etc. The author(s) take 25% of the income earned by affiliates, instead of the 30% – 40%, numbers from notorious malware […]	Ransomware Malware Threat
	2019-10-02 16:05:20	McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service – What The Code Tells Us (lien direct)	Episode 1: What the Code Tells Us McAfee's Advanced Threat Research team (ATR) observed a new ransomware family in the wild, dubbed Sodinokibi (or REvil), at the end of April 2019. Around this same time, the GandCrab ransomware crew announced they would shut down their operations. Coincidence? Or is there more to the story? In […]	Ransomware Threat
	2019-08-01 16:01:00	Clop Ransomware (lien direct)	This new ransomware was discovered by Michael Gillespie on 8 February 2019 and it is still improving over time. This blog will explain the technical details and share information about how this new ransomware family is working. There are some variants of the Clop ransomware but in this report, we will focus on the main […]	Ransomware
	2019-07-26 08:00:01	No More Ransom Blows Out Three Birthday Candles Today (lien direct)	Collaborative Initiative Celebrates Helping More Than 200,000 Victims and Preventing More Than 100 million USD From Falling into Criminal Hands Three years ago, on this exact day, the public and private sectors drew a line in the sand against ransomware. At that time, ransomware was becoming one of the most prevalent cyber threats globally. We […]	Ransomware
	2019-04-29 17:10:00	LockerGoga Ransomware Family Used in Targeted Attacks (lien direct)	Initial discovery Once again, we have seen a significant new ransomware family in the news. LockerGoga, which adds new features to the tried and true formula of encrypting victims' files and asking for payment to decrypt them, has gained notoriety for the targets it has affected. In this blog, we will look at the findings […]	Ransomware
	2019-02-20 05:01:00	Ryuk, Exploring the Human Connection (lien direct)	In collaboration with Bill Siegel and Alex Holdtman from Coveware. At the beginning of 2019, McAfee ATR published an article describing how the hasty attribution of Ryuk ransomware to North Korea was missing the point. Since then, collective industry peers discovered additional technical details on Ryuk's inner workings, the overlap between Ryuk and Hermes2.1, […]	Ransomware
	2019-01-22 20:43:05	Happy New Year 2019! Anatova is here! (lien direct)	During our continuous hunt for new threats, we discovered a new ransomware family we call Anatova (based on the name of the ransom note). Anatova was discovered in a private peer-to-peer (p2p) network. After initial analysis, and making sure that our customers are protected, we decided to make this discovery public. Our telemetry showed that […]	Ransomware
	2019-01-07 23:59:01	Ryuk Ransomware Attack: Rush to Attribution Misses the Point (lien direct)	Senior analyst Ryan Sherstobitoff contributed to this report. During the past week, an outbreak of Ryuk ransomware shutting down newspaper printing services in the United States has garnered a lot of attention. To determine who was behind the attack many have cited past research that compares code from Ryuk with the older ransomware Hermes to […]	Ransomware
	2018-10-30 21:00:03	Fallout Exploit Kit Releases the Kraken Ransomware on Its Victims (lien direct)	Alexandr Solad and Daniel Hatheway of Recorded Future are coauthors of this post. Rising from the deep, Kraken Cryptor ransomware has had a notable development path in recent months. The first signs of Kraken came in mid-August on a popular underground forum. In mid-September it was reported that the malware developer had placed the ransomware, …	Ransomware Malware
	2018-10-10 23:29:01	Rapidly Evolving Ransomware GandCrab Version 5 Partners With Crypter Service for Obfuscation (lien direct)	The GandCrab ransomware, which first appeared in January, has been updated rapidly during its short life, with Version 5.0.2 appearing this month. In this post we will examine the latest version and how the authors have improved the code (and in some cases have made mistakes). McAfee gateway and endpoint products are able to protect …	Ransomware
	2018-09-18 04:01:03	Political Figures Differ Online: Names of Trump, Obama, Merkel Attached to Ransomware Campaigns (lien direct)	Politics and ransomware. No, it's not a lost single from the Oasis back catalogue, but in fact a relatively recent tactic by ransomware developers looking to exploit the profiles of major politicians to install ransomware on victims' computers. Donald Trump, Angela Merkel, and now Barack Obama all serve as lures for the unsuspecting. Despite its …	Ransomware
	2018-07-31 21:43:01	GandCrab Ransomware Puts the Pinch on Victims (lien direct)	The GandCrab ransomware first appeared in January and has updated itself rapidly during its short life. It is the leading ransomware threat. The McAfee Advanced Threat Research team has reverse engineered Versions 4.0 through 4.2 of the malware. The first versions (1.0 and 1.1) of this malware had a bug that left the keys in …	Ransomware Malware Threat Guideline
	2018-07-13 22:52:00	What Drives a Ransomware Criminal? CoinVault Developers Convicted in Dutch Court (lien direct)	How often do we get a chance to learn what goes on in the minds of cybercriminals? Two members of McAfee's Advanced Threat Research team recently did, as they attended a court case against two cybercriminal brothers. The brothers, Dennis and Melvin, faced a judge in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. This case was one of …	Ransomware Threat

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