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Attacks with ShrinkLocker, which leverages Microsoft BitLocker for accelerated drive encryption and a random password for re-encryption in Windows 7 and 8 or Windows Server 2008 and 2012 systems, have been deployed against organizations in Mexico, Jordan, and Indonesia, with the payload gaining traction among less sophisticated threat operations due to its simplicity.

Information compromised in the breach has been obtained from a system that had been inactive for nearly two years, noted DemandScience in an email sent to an individual who inquired the firm after seeing his data in the leak.

TAG-112 may be a subgroup of Chinese advanced persistent threat group Evasive Panda, also known as TAG-102 and StormBamboo, due to significant similarities in attack tactics, techniques, and procedures, an analysis from Recorded Future's Insikt Group revealed.

Such an intrusion has not yet been confirmed by the AAP, whose website warned of the recent forced reset of all user passwords without further information but the organization was noted by Embargo to have already provided $1.3 million in exchange for the decryption of its systems.

After engaging in cyberespionage attacks that involved the distribution of RAR archive lures to deploy the IronWind downloader and Havoc post-exploitation framework, WIRTE proceeded to target numerous Israeli entities with the updated SameCoin Wiper malware in a phishing campaign impersonating an Israeli partner of cybersecurity firm ESET.

If the government truly wants to protect the US's most vital assets, it must rethink its cybersecurity policies and prioritize proactive, coordinated, and enforceable measures.

Less-experienced users of Microsoft's website building platform may not understand all the implications of the access controls in its low- or no-code environment.

APT Wirte is doing double duty, adding all manner of supplemental malware to gain access, eavesdrop, and wipe data, depending on the target.