2021-10-30
Two years later, law enforcement is taking down the threat actors behind ransomware attacks involving Dharma, Megacortex, and LockerGoga. Our initial coverage of Megacortex from May, 2019: https://news.sophos.com/... https://twitter.com/...
The Record
Europol says it has detained 12 suspects for orchestrating ransomware attacks that hit 1,800+ victims across 71 countries since 2019
Catalin Cimpanu / The Record :
2020-04-23
“Some recipients of #sextortion emails do fall for this tactic and pay up. But where does the cryptocurrency go? Researchers from SophosLabs, together with analysts from @ciphertrace, decided to find out.” @ZDNet @SecurityCharlie https://www.zdnet.com/...
Sophos News
Deep dive on a “sextortion” spam email scheme that raked in 50.98 BTC, or ~$473K, over five months and, on some days, accounted for 20%+ of all observed spam
Sophos News : Tweets: @sophoslabs and @thepacketrat Tweets: @sophoslabs : “Some recipients of #sextortion emails do fall for this tactic and pay up. But where does the cryptocurre...
2020-01-17
#Fleeceware charges excessive amounts of money for apps if users don't cancel a “subscription” before the short free trial window closes. The app below displays daily horoscopes for $69.99 a week, which adds up to an annual price of $3,639.48 More: https://news.sophos.com/... https://twitter.com/...
ZDNet
Sophos researchers find 25 “fleeceware” apps on the Play Store, installed by 600M+ users, that abuse the apps' free trial mechanic to charge obscene fees
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
2020-01-10
The Mozilla Foundation is urging Firefox users to update their browser today to a version that fixes a bug the company says is being abused by “targeted attacks in the wild.” Update your Fox! https://www.mozilla.org/...
Ars Technica
Mozilla patches an actively exploited Firefox zero-day flaw that could allow attackers to take control of computers by accessing sensitive memory locations
Flaw allows attackers to access sensitive memory locations that are normally off-limits. — Mozilla has released a new version …