article thumbnail

FBI warns of ransomware attacks targeting the food and agriculture sector

Security Affairs

FBI warns ransomware gangs are actively targeting organizations in the food and agriculture sector. “Cyber criminal threat actors exploit network vulnerabilities to exfiltrate data and encrypt systems in a sector that is increasingly reliant on smart technologies, industrial control systems, and internet-based automation systems.

article thumbnail

Flaws in Realtek RTL8170C Wi-Fi module allow hijacking wireless communications

Security Affairs

The Realtek RTL8710C module is based on a Cortex M3 processor, it is used for several applications in many industries, including Agriculture, Automotive, Energy, Gaming, Healthcare, Industrial, Security, and Smart Home. In the video PoC published by the researchers, on the right-hand-side window as “Sending malicious encrypted GTK”.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

REvil Ransomware Gang Starts Auctioning Victim Data

Krebs on Security

. “ Sodin ” and “ Sodinokibi “) used their Dark Web “Happy Blog” to announce its first ever stolen data auction, allegedly selling files taken from a Canadian agricultural production company that REvil says has so far declined its extortion demands.

article thumbnail

Iranian hackers access unsecured HMI at Israeli Water Facility

Security Affairs

Experts noticed that the system still allows communications on port 502, which is used for Modbus protocol, that doesn’t require any authentication/encryption. One of the attacks hit agricultural water pumps in upper Galilee, while the other one hit water pumps in the central province of Mateh Yehuda.

Access 348
article thumbnail

Watch out, ransomware attack risk increases on holidays and weekends, FBI and CISA

Security Affairs

After DarkSide actors gained access to the victim’s network, they deployed ransomware to encrypt victim data and—as a secondary form of extortion—exfiltrated the data before threatening to publish it to further pressure victims into paying the ransom demand.

article thumbnail

San Francisco 49ers NFL team discloses BlackByte ransomware attack

Security Affairs

Unlike other ransomware that may have a unique key in each session, that version of BlackByte was using the same raw key to encrypt files and it uses the symmetric-key algorithm AES. “BlackByte is a Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) group that encrypts files on compromised Windows host systems, including physical and virtual servers.”

article thumbnail

FBI obtained 7,000 LockBit decryption keys, victims should contact the feds to get support

Security Affairs

The FBI is inviting victims of LockBit ransomware to come forward because it has obtained over 7,000 LockBit decryption keys that could allow them to recover their encrypted data for free. The NCA reached out to victims based in the UK providing support to help them recover encrypted data.