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Cato CTRL Threat Research: Unmasking Hellcat – Not Your Average Ransomware Gang

CATO Networks

They posted root access to the university’s server for sale on dark web forums for the low cost of $1,500 USD. Such access could compromise student records, financial systems, and critical operational data, potentially leading to severe reputational damage and legal consequences for the institution. Sale of root access for U.S.

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Scale up MISP: Automatically collect and ingest IoCs with Feedly TI

Effective Software Design

Searching MISP, the analyst might find that another organization had recently reported the IP address, identifying it as a command and control server. MISP's data model is versatile and can represent a range of contextual objects, including those related to financial fraud, network security, and counter-terrorism.

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How Banfico built an Open Banking and Payment Services Directive (PSD2) compliance solution on AWS

AWS Architecture

Over 185 leading Financial Institutions and FinTech companies use Banfico to streamline their compliance process and deliver the future of banking. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS): Banfico uses AWS KMS to encrypt all data stored on the volumes used by Amazon RDS to make sure their data is secured.

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The Horrors of Ransomware and the Mid-market Enterprise

CATO Networks

A paralegal opened up a phishing email attachment and her, anti-virus protected, PC disk was maliciously encrypted by Cryptowall malware. The ransomware has to connect to its C2 (Command and Control) server to get the encryption key pair generated and the public key delivered to the machine.

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The Evolution of Qakbot: How Cato Networks Adapts to the Latest Threats 

CATO Networks

Qakbot is sophisticated info-stealing malware, notorious as a banking trojan, and is often used to steal financial information and conduct fraudulent financial transactions. Request to download Qakbots dll from the C2 server using PowerShell The.WSF script then executes the Qakbot dll using Rundll32.exe. exe and regsvr32.exe.

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The 5 Most Common Cyber Threats in Schools

Akins IT

The things that could happen are anything from stolen personal data to financial manipulation. Ransomware Ransomware encrypts the files on the computer so that the user can't get them. The malware file has scripts that help it find and encrypt the files in its target area. This way, the school would not be able to get it.

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Cato CTRL Threat Research: Sophisticated Data Exfiltration Tools Used in Double Extortion Ransomware Attacks by Hunters International and Play 

CATO Networks

Executive Summary Modern ransomware attacks have evolved beyond simple encryption to deploy sophisticated double extortion tactics. Threat actors now systematically exfiltrate sensitive data before encrypting systems, ensuring leverage even when victims have robust data backups. dev cdn-server-2[.]wesoc40288[.]workers[.]dev

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