Last Valentine’s day, millions of friendly and romantic emails were exchanged around the world. Unfortunately, some of them were maliciously used by cyber criminal groups to infect personal computing devices and networks with gandcrab LAN software. The information security researcher of mimecast threat lab confirmed that the activities of network crime business model RAAS (ransomware as-a-service) have increased significantly in the past year. More interesting may be the new details surrounding this threat. The
Imafeoso? The rise of RAAS is one of the turning points in the cybercrime world, which begins to show similarities with the historical development of other criminal organizations. In the recent trial of Joaquin \
Lansom Software Co., Ltd. cooperation plan and marketing activities are now part of RAAS, which explains the reasons for the increase of lansom software sales on the eve of Valentine’s day. The network crime organization that provides RAAS has started a creative marketing campaign, including the idea of how to maximize the sexual Valentine’s day of potential criminals in the United States. Some of the promoted topics and attack vectors are:* Fake appointment app* A Trojan greeting redirects the victim to a website that will be injected into the gandcrab ransim software* A fake Internet questionnaire aimed at intercepting personal data of victims. The
*Spyware that exchanges Internet advertising banners with malicious versions. The marketing activities mentioned above begin with the dark network market display, encrypted message application and underground network forum. In order to understand how sophisticated these cyber criminal gangs have become, hostman and other efficient Lansan software packages with bitcoin settlement processing and automatic file decryption for victims who meet Lansan note conditions sell for $49.95 when used indefinitely. Just as many information security systems are now cloud based, so are attackers. One of the most interesting results reported by researcher mimecast thread lab is that gandcrab RAAS activities started before Valentine’s day do not target Russian users. If a malicious software application detects an alphabetic or Russian language pack configuration to be keyed in the operating system, it will not perform an attack. The
Although the main LAN software organizations are well known in Russia, why don’t cybercrime operators pay attention to targeting their own residents? The geopolitical situation has a lot to do with the operation of cyber criminal groups. We already know that the Russian hacker organization cooperates with the Kremlin and intelligence personnel to participate in international elections. In order to establish partnerships, cyber criminal groups must refrain from attacking friendly targets. This is hardly a surprise to historians. Finally, the Sicilian Mafia formed a political and religious partnership in the 1970s and 1980s. The
Political patriotism can affect the behavior of malicious hackers and organized criminal groups. In some cases, criminal organizations recruit hackers for the purpose of operational diversification and political activities. At the beginning of this year, robertoescorba launched a cryptocurrency based on Ethereum blockchain
The proceeds from the listing will be used to fund the impeachment investigation and lobbying activities of US President Donald Trump. Roberto is the surviving brother of Pablo Escobar, the notorious leader of the Medellin cartel, who was shot dead in Colombia in 1993 with the help of US law enforcement agencies. Save lansom software cracker? No one is safe from ransom software attacks, nor are the victims of the Syrian civil war. In october2018, a Syrian man’s sad twitter update explained that his computer was infected with gandcrab version 5.0.3, and the image and video of his children lost in the dispute were in danger of being lost. The
Surprisingly, the group behind gandcrab RAAS’ work learned about the plight of the Syrian victims and contacted the core members of the underground hacker forum to launch password cracking tools for the affected groups. The \
Without malicious software, researchers from Sophos lab, a network security company, intercepted e-mails characterized by \
Because many of the recipients are small companies, investigators will believe that the marketing e-mail list may have been hacked in this attack. For this reason, small business owners must carefully evaluate e-mail marketing service providers. Ultimately, the best strategy to protect you from LAN software attacks is to continue with comprehensive data backup. Conclusion: \
