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Email attacks overtook exploits as the top ransomware root cause last year. Multifactor authentication (MFA) was deployed in 97% of credential-based attacks but failed to prevent compromise.
Incident Responders Detail Top Ransomware and Business Email Compromise TacticsThere's no need to invest into sophisticated hacking operations when moving fast and exploiting well-trod techniques gives threat actors all the access they want. Threat actors are prioritizing "low-complexity entry points, rather than investing in sophisticated exploits," say incident responders.
Cloud services provider Rackspace on Thursday confirmed that the ransomware gang known as Play was responsible for last month's breach
In January, KrebsOnSecurity examined clues left behind by "Wazawaka," the hacker handle chosen by a major ransomware criminal in the Russian-speaking cybercrime scene. Wazawaka has since "lost his mind" according to his erstwhile colleagues, creating a Twitter account to drop exploit code for a widely-used virtual private networking (VPN) appliance, and publishing bizarre selfie videos taunting security researchers and journalists. In last month's story, we explored clues that led from Wazawaka's multitude of monikers, email addresses, and passwords to a 30-something father in Abakan, Russia named Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev. This post concerns itself with the other half of Wazawaka's identities not mentioned in the first story, such as how Wazawaka also ran the Babuk ransomware affiliate program, and later became "Orange," the founder of the ransomware-focused Dark Web forum known as "RAMP."