The Week in Ransomware – July twenty second 2022

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9cb9 New ransomware operations proceed to 9cb9 be launched this week, with 9cb9 the 9cb9 new Luna ransomware 9cb9 discovered to be focusing on 9cb9 each Home windows and VMware 9cb9 ESXi servers.

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9cb9 We additionally realized how the 9cb9 Conti ransomware gang 9cb9 breached the Costa Rican authorities’s 9cb9 methods 9cb9 and that the 9cb9 FBI recovered $500,000 in ransoms 9cb9 paid by well being 9cb9 care to the Maui ransomware 9cb9 operation.

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9cb9 The large assault that went 9cb9 public this week was in 9cb9 opposition to digital safety agency 9cb9 Entrust, which 9cb9 disclosed they suffered a safety 9cb9 incident 9cb9 on June 18th that 9cb9 led to information being stolen.

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9cb9 Different assaults we realized about 9cb9 his week embody constructing supplies 9cb9 big 9cb9 Knauf 9cb9 , an 9cb9 assault in town of St. 9cb9 Marys 9cb9 , and an assault on 9cb9 the 9cb9 city of Frederick 9cb9 , Colorado.

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9cb9 Contributors and those that offered 9cb9 new ransomware info and tales 9cb9 this week embody: 9cb9 @serghei 9cb9 , 9cb9 @VK_Intel 9cb9 , 9cb9 @jorntvdw 9cb9 , 9cb9 @DanielGallagher 9cb9 , 9cb9 @struppigel 9cb9 , 9cb9 @PolarToffee 9cb9 , 9cb9 @FourOctets 9cb9 , 9cb9 @Seifreed 9cb9 , 9cb9 @malwrhunterteam 9cb9 , 9cb9 @Ionut_Ilascu 9cb9 , 9cb9 @LawrenceAbrams 9cb9 , 9cb9 @demonslay335 9cb9 , 9cb9 @billtoulas 9cb9 , 9cb9 @BleepinComputer 9cb9 , 9cb9 @fwosar 9cb9 , 9cb9 @malwareforme 9cb9 , 9cb9 @AdvIntel 9cb9 , 9cb9 @AuCyble 9cb9 , 9cb9 @kaspersky 9cb9 , 9cb9 @pcrisk 9cb9 , 9cb9 @corintxt 9cb9 , 9cb9 @Amigo_A_ 9cb9 , and  9cb9 @jgreigj 9cb9 .

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9cb9 July seventeenth 2022

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9cb9 New STOP247 ransomware

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9cb9 Amigo-A 9cb9 discovered the brand new 9cb9 STOP247 ransomware that appends the 9cb9 9cb9 .cease 9cb9 and drops a ransom notice 9cb9 named 9cb9 RECOVERY_INFORMATION.TXT 9cb9 .

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9cb9 July 18th 2022

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9cb9 Colorado police investigating ransomware assault 9cb9 on small city

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9cb9 The police division of Frederick, 9cb9 Colorado stated it’s investigating claims 9cb9 that the city authorities was 9cb9 hit with a ransomware assault.

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9cb9 New Dharma Ransomware variant

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9cb9 PCrisk 9cb9 discovered a brand new 9cb9 Dharma ransomware variant that appends 9cb9 the 9cb9 .xrom 9cb9 extension and drops a 9cb9 ransom notice named 9cb9 FILES ENCRYPTED.txt 9cb9 .

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9cb9 New STOP ransomware variants

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9cb9 PCrisk discovered new STOP ransomware 9cb9 variants that append the 9cb9 .ggyu 9cb9 , 9cb9 .ggeo 9cb9 , 9cb9 .ggew 9cb9 , and 9cb9 .ggwq 9cb9 extension.

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9cb9 New CHAOS primarily based BlueKey 9cb9 ransomware

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9cb9 PCrisk discovered a brand new 9cb9 CHAOS ransomware variant that appends 9cb9 the 9cb9 .blueKey 9cb9 extension and drops a ransom 9cb9 notice named 9cb9 DECRYPTION_INSTRUCTIONS.txt 9cb9 .

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9cb9 July nineteenth 2022

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9cb9 Constructing supplies big Knauf hit 9cb9 by Black Basta ransomware gang

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9cb9 The Knauf Group has introduced 9cb9 it has been the goal 9cb9 of a cyberattack that has 9cb9 disrupted its enterprise operations, forcing 9cb9 its international IT crew to 9cb9 close down all IT methods 9cb9 to isolate the incident.

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9cb9 New Dharma ransomware variant

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9cb9 PCrisk discovered a brand new 9cb9 Dharma variant that appends the 9cb9 9cb9 .NMO 9cb9 extension.

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9cb9 New Matrix ransomware variant

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9cb9 PCrisk discovered a brand new 9cb9 Matrix ransomware variant that appends 9cb9 the 9cb9 .KOK08 9cb9 extension and drops a 9cb9 ransom notice named 9cb9 !README_KOK08!.rtf 9cb9 .

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9cb9 July twentieth 2022

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9cb9 New Luna ransomware encrypts Home 9cb9 windows, Linux, and ESXi methods

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9cb9 A brand new ransomware household 9cb9 dubbed Luna can be utilized 9cb9 to encrypt gadgets working a 9cb9 number of working methods, together 9cb9 with Home windows, Linux, and 9cb9 ESXi methods.

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9cb9 FBI recovers $500,000 healthcare orgs 9cb9 paid to Maui ransomware

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9cb9 The U.S. Division of Justice 9cb9 has introduced the seizure of 9cb9 roughly $500,000 in Bitcoin, paid 9cb9 by American well being care 9cb9 suppliers to the operators of 9cb9 the Maui ransomware pressure.

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9cb9 July twenty first 2022

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9cb9 New Redeemer ransomware model promoted 9cb9 on hacker boards

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9cb9 A menace actor is selling 9cb9 a brand new model of 9cb9 their free-to-use ‘Redeemer’ ransomware builder 9cb9 on hacker boards, providing unskilled 9cb9 menace actors a simple entry 9cb9 to the world of encryption-backed 9cb9 extortion assaults.

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9cb9 How Conti ransomware hacked and 9cb9 encrypted the Costa Rican authorities

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9cb9 Particulars have emerged on how 9cb9 the Conti ransomware gang breached 9cb9 the Costa Rican authorities, exhibiting 9cb9 the assault’s precision and the 9cb9 velocity of shifting from preliminary 9cb9 entry to the ultimate stage 9cb9 of encrypting gadgets.

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9cb9 New STOP ransomware variants

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9cb9 PCrisk discovered STOP ransomware variants 9cb9 that append the 9cb9 .ooxa 9cb9 and 9cb9 .oori 9cb9 extensions.

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9cb9 July twenty second 2022

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9cb9 Digital safety big Entrust breached 9cb9 by ransomware gang

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9cb9 Digital safety big Entrust has 9cb9 confirmed that it suffered a 9cb9 cyberattack the place menace actors 9cb9 breached their community and stole 9cb9 information from inner methods.

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9cb9 A small Canadian city is 9cb9 being extorted by a worldwide 9cb9 ransomware gang

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9cb9 The Canadian city of St. 9cb9 Marys, Ontario, has been hit 9cb9 by a ransomware assault that 9cb9 has locked workers out of 9cb9 inner methods and encrypted information.

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9cb9 New Kriptor ransomware

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9cb9 PCrisk discovered the brand new 9cb9 Kriptor ransomware that appends the 9cb9 9cb9 .Kriptor 9cb9 and drops a ransom 9cb9 notice named 9cb9 read_it.txt 9cb9 .

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9cb9 That is it for this 9cb9 week! Hope everybody has a 9cb9 pleasant weekend!

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