Category: June

A ransomware group which first appeared on the Internet in March 2022 is surging in prominence after a number of successful attacks in May of this year. Going by the name 8Base, the gang has recently released the details of almost 70 victims on their dark web leak site. Targets […]

Whilst the world watched the 24 hr mutiny by the Wagner group involved in the Russian war with Ukraine, another attack was taking place in cyber space. A strain of malware created by the Chaos ransomware builder has been seen on a number of devices in Russia with a message […]

Operation Venetic – the multi-agency operation to infiltrate and shutdown the criminal communications system known as Encrochat have released figures regarding the success rate of follow-on investigations into the gangs and individuals using the secret services on offer with the system. For those interested in the details about Encrochat and […]

I very much doubt that anyone following my blogs has not heard of the massive breach which has impacted hundreds of organisations worldwide which was carried out by the Cl0p ransomware gang. I posted a brief account of Cl0p on the 19th of this month, but stayed away from posting […]

Researchers from the Project Zero & Cloud teams at Google have released a report detailing a security review of the Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) feature. The security review was performed in cooperation with Intel engineers on pre-release source code for version 1.0 of the TDX feature. This code is […]

Unit 42 research analysts at Palo Alto Networks have identified a new strain of the Mirai botnet which targets 22 security issues in various devices including DVRs, WiFi dongles, Routers, Thermal monitoring systems, solar power systems, and access control systems. The malware has been discovered in two recent campaigns which […]

A multi-national coalition of law enforcement agencies have taken down the clearweb site of the infamous BreachForums. Visitors to the domain breached.vc are now met with the standard “This domain has been seized” message. The domain takedown comes three months after the arrest of its owner Conor Fitzpatrick (aka Pompompurin), […]

A ransomware attack has targeted Manchester University with the threat actors stealing 7Tb of data. Using information stolen in the attack, the threat actors have started to email students, warning that their data will soon be leaked to the dark web after an extortion demand was not paid. The threat […]

Back in May of this year, cyber Security company BitDefender released a paper detailing research work they have undertaken which looks at a new exploit which takes control of sessions using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to infect victims with a backdoor allowing for data to be exfiltrated. The exploit […]

The following post is one I’ve thought about writing for almost a month now, but didn’t think there was much to it until recently. Back in February, Reddit was hacked by a ransomware group and approx. 80GB of data was exfiltrated. At the time, it wasn’t certain which of the […]