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Sifting through the spines: identifying (potential) Cactus ransomware victims

Authored by Willem Zeeman and Yun Zheng Hu This blog is part of a series written by various Dutch cyber security firms that have collaborated on the Cactus ransomware group, which exploits Qlik Sense servers for initial access. To view all of them please check the central blog by Dutch special interest group Cyberveilig Nederland […]


Unmasking Lorenz Ransomware: A Dive into Recent Tactics, Techniques and Procedures 

Author: Zaid Baksh In the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats, ransomware remains a persistent menace, with groups like Lorenz actively exploiting vulnerabilities in small to medium businesses globally. Since early 2021, Lorenz has been employing double-extortion tactics, exfiltrating sensitive data before encrypting systems and threatening to sell or release it publicly unless a ransom is […]


Ivanti Zero Day – Threat Actors observed leveraging CVE-2021-42278 and CVE-2021-42287 for quick privilege escalation to Domain Admin 

Authors: David Brown and Mungomba Mulenga TL;dr NCC Group has observed what we believe to be the attempted exploitation of CVE-2021-42278 and CVE-2021-42287 as a means of privilege escalation, following the successful compromise of an Ivanti Secure Connect VPN using the following zero-day vulnerabilities reported by Volexity1 on 10/01/2024: By combining these vulnerabilities threat actors […]


Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, NoEscape from NCC Group

Author: Alex Jessop (@ThisIsFineChief) Summary Tl;dr This post will delve into a recent incident response engagement handled by NCC Group’s Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) involving the Ransomware-as-a-Service known as NoEscape. Below provides a summary of findings which are presented in this blog post:  NoEscape NoEscape is a new financially motivated ransomware group delivering a […]