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Ransomware: Germany popular target for attackers
8 October 2023
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Ransomware: Germany popular target for attackers

Last year, Germany was the fourth most attacked country in the world. The logistics, construction and technology industries are the main targets, according to Malwarebytes ransomware analysis. In the twelve months from July 2022 to June 2023, Germany remains the fourth most attacked country in the world and the most attacked country outside the English-speaking world. Ransomware attacks are on the rise As in the US and UK, the number of ransomware attacks has increased significantly over the past four months. March, April and May were actually the most affected months...

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Ransomware gang CLOP successful with new attack tactics
August 15, 2023
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CLOP has meanwhile established itself in the ransomware scene as one of the most agile hacker gangs internationally. The APT group also pulled off the attack on the MOVEit vulnerability on its own and is negotiating with hundreds of companies about their data. In the last twelve months alone, CLOP or "Cl0p" has been written - known to at least nine attacks in Germany. In comparison, the ransomware gang LockBit, which is currently most active in Germany, carried out 24 attacks in the same period. In the case of the Cl0p leaks, however, the extent of the attacks is particularly interesting. Hundreds of destinations with a single...

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Zero-days in Microsoft Windows and Chrome
June 26, 2021
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As early as April, Kaspersky experts discovered a series of extremely targeted cyber attacks with exploits against several companies that were using previously undiscovered zero days for Google Chrome and Microsoft Windows. New threat actor PuzzleMaker is at work. Kaspersky has not yet been able to connect to known threat actors and therefore calls this new threat actor PuzzleMaker. One of the exploits was used to remotely execute code in the Chrome web browser, the other was used to elevate privilege and target the latest and most popular builds of Windows 10. The latter exploits two vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows operating system kernel: security vulnerability CVE-2021-31955 and the Elevation-of-Privilege security vulnerability ...

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