Infamous ransomware hackers reveal new tool to brute-force VPNs
Researchers uncovered a brute-forcing tool called BRUTED It was used since 2023 against VPNs and firewalls BRUTED allows for ...
Ransomware gang creates tool to automate VPN brute-force attacks
The Black Basta ransomware operation created an automated brute-forcing framework dubbed 'BRUTED' to breach edge networking ...
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Leaked Black Basta Chats Suggest Russian Officials Aided Leader's Escape from Armenia
Leaked Black Basta chats reveal Russian aid in leader’s escape, AI-assisted fraud, and BRUTED credential attacks on firewalls ...
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Black Basta ransomware leak reveals potential Kremlin ties
A massive leak of internal chat logs from the notorious Black Basta ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group has exposed ...
Black Basta uses brute-forcing tool to attack edge devices
The ransomware gang developed an automated framework to guess weak and reused passwords on VPNs and firewalls.
A huge trove of leaked Black Basta chat logs expose the ransomware gang’s key members and victims
A trove of chat logs allegedly belonging to the Black Basta ransomware group has leaked online, exposing key members of the prolific Russia-linked gang. The chatlogs, which include over 200,000 ...
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Inside Black Basta Ransomware Group’s Chat Leak
Internal conflicts within the notorious Black Basta ransomware group have led to a massive leak of the group’s internal chat messages. While the messages are disorganized and full of internal jargon, ...
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Leaked ransomware chat logs reveal Black Basta’s targeted CVEs
Researchers analyzed leaked chat logs from the infamous Black Basta ransomware gang and found references to 62 unique CVEs, 53 of which are known to have been exploited in the wild. Black Basta ...
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Leaked chat logs expose inner workings of secretive ransomware group
The communications come in the form of logs of more than 200,000 messages members of Black Basta sent to each other over the Matrix chat platform from September 2023 to September 2024, researchers ...
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Microsoft Teams tactics, malware connect Black Basta, Cactus ransomware
Cactus ransomware emerged in early 2023 and has since targeted a range of organizations using tactics similar to Black Basta's. BleepingComputer's previous reporting on Cactus also showed links ...
Notorious crooks broke into a company network in 48 minutes. Here’s how.
Within minutes, at least two of the employees took the bait and followed instructions to open the Quick Assist remote access app built into Windows and hand off control of their desktops to the person ...