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A sweeping effort to prevent a raft of targeted cybercrime groups from posting ransomware victims' data publicly is hampering their operations, causing outages.

Security threats are always a concern when it comes to APIs. API security can be compared to driving a car. You must be cautious and review everything closely before releasing it into the world. By failing to do so, you're putting yourself and others at risk. API attacks are more dangerous than other breaches. Facebook had a 50M user account affected by an API breach, and an API data breach on

By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  It seems like there’s at least one major password breach every month — if not more. Most recently, there was an incident at Plex where all users had to reset their passwords.   Many users pay for a password management service — which is something I’ve talked about a ton for Talos. But even those aren’t a one-size-fits-all solution. LastPass, one of the most popular password management services, recently suffered a breach of their own internal development environment, though as of right now, it doesn’t appear like any users’ primary passwords were compromised.  This got me curious about how people prefer to manage their passwords, so I threw up a poll on our Twitter asking our readers how they managed their passwords. Paid password management services like LastPass and 1Password were the most popular response, followed by web browser-based managers like the ones Chrome and Safari offer. Several o...

Categories: Threat Intelligence LockBit remained the dominant ransomware variant in August, as it has all year. At the other end of the scale REvil's revival in slow motion continued with a single victim listed. (Read more...) The post Ransomware review: August 2022 appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

By Deeba Ahmed The botnet is exploiting four different vulnerabilities in D-Link devices. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mirai botnet resurfaces with MooBot variant to target D-Link devices

By Azim Khodjibaev, Colin Grady, Paul Eubanks. Since Aug. 20, 2022, Cisco Talos has been monitoring suspected distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks resulting in intermittent downtime and outages affecting several ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) data leak sites. While the source and origin of this activity remain unknown, this appears to be a concentrated effort against RaaS leak sites to disrupt their efforts to announce and post new victim information. Actors' responses have varied, with LockBit and ALPHV implementing new measures to counteract DDoS attacks against their sites while other groups like Quantum have simply resorted to redirecting web traffic elsewhere. LockBit also appears to have co-opted this technique by advertising that they are now adding DDoS as an extortion tactic in addition to encrypting and leaking data. RaaS leak sites experience intermittent outages In late August, Talos became aware of several prominent ransomware operations, such as ALPHV (also ref...

Categories: News Tags: interpol Tags: sextortion Tags: mobile malware Tags: extortion In an international police action supported by Interpol, law enforcement agencies have uncovered and dismantled an international sextortion ring. (Read more...) The post Sextortionists used mobile malware to steal nude videos, contact lists from victims appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

A variant of the Mirai botnet known as MooBot is co-opting vulnerable D-Link devices into an army of denial-of-service bots by taking advantage of multiple exploits. "If the devices are compromised, they will be fully controlled by attackers, who could utilize those devices to conduct further attacks such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said in a

Here are some strategies for protecting the business against botnets poised to take advantage of remote-work vulnerabilities.