News Archive
Every day we share with you the most relevant, enterprise-impacting security news as we read and find them from the Internet on a daily basis. Keeping up with the latest security exploits and hacks every day is a daunting task, yet it must be done! Just because you didn't know doesn't mean that it's not going to bite you or your enterprise.
October 2021
Fri Oct 26, 2021 - FBI: Ranzy Locker ransomware hit at least 30 US companies this year
The FBI said on Monday that Ranzy Locker ransomware operators had compromised at least 30 US companies this year from various industry sectors.
"Unknown cyber criminals using Ranzy Locker ransomware had compromised more than 30 US businesses as of July 2021," the FBI said in a TLP: WHITE flash alert.
Fri Oct 22, 2021 - Unhappy customers and their own tricks used against them, REvil ransomware gang reportedly pulled offline by 'multi-country' operations
The REvil leaks blog, known as Happy Blog, was made inaccessible on October 17, the same day one of its operators announced the group was shutting down due to a hijacking of their domain on Russian forum XSS, security vendor Flashpoint said at the time.
Sat Oct 16, 2021 - ThunderX Ransomware rebrands as Ranzy Locker, adds data leak site
ThunderX has changed its name to Ranzy Locker and launched a data leak site where they shame victims who do not pay the ransom.
ThunderX is a ransomware operation that was launched at the end of August 2020. Soon after launching, weaknesses were found in the ransomware that allowed a free decryptor to be released by Tesorion..
Mon Oct 11, 2021 - Microsoft: Iran-linked hackers target US defense tech companies (using Spray Attacks)
Iran-linked threat actors are targeting the Office 365 tenants of US and Israeli defense technology companies in extensive password spraying attacks.