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The first quarter of 2023 was the best quarter we’ve seen for the ransomware industry in a long time, even exceeding Q1 2022. With 831 victims, Q1 2023’s victim count was much higher than the first quarter of 2022, with just 763 victims. Unsurprisingly, LockBit3.0 remained the number one group claiming an average of around 23 victims per week and almost 33% of all ransomware cases this quarter.

A supply chain attack that targets customers of the 3CX Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) desktop client has been discovered. Threat actors have created a digitally signed and malicious version of the software, which is being used to target both Windows and macOS users of the app. The threat actors are deploying second-stage payloads and are believed to be linked to a North Korean state-backed hacking group, , although this attribution has not been confirmed.

Clop, aka Cl0p, is a ransomware group that emerged in February 2019 and targeted almost any sector in the world, including retail, transportation, education, manufacturing, automotive, energy, financial, telecommunications and even healthcare. The clop ransomware group is linked as a successor of the CryptoMix ransomware group. The Cyberint Research Team identified an anomaly in Clop’s activity in the past two weeks.

Malware is not a new attack vector but, over the past few years, the Cyberint research team was observed a resurgence of this threat. In particular, a specific type of malware known as InfoStealers has become a serious risk. This blog post will drill down on InfoStealers and discuss the lifecycle of an InfoStealer attack, from beginning to end.

On March 15, the FBI arrested an individual suspected of being the notorious Pompompurin, the admin of one of the most popular cybercrime forums today – BreachForums.The individual is a 21-year-old, Conor Brian Fitzpatrick who federal agents claim admitted to being the famous Pompompurin. Pompompurin is a famous cybersecurity individual which whom anyone in the community is familiar. The BreachForums is still up and running and is currently managed by another admin named Baphomet.

Cybersecurity isn’t easy in any industry, but it is perhaps most challenging for the banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) sector. Financial institutions are highly digitized and have large, complex IT infrastructures with many environments and assets to protect. At the same time, these enterprises are highly targeted by threat actors, leading to a constant barrage of attacks to detect and disrupt.

First observed in 2019 and advertised (Figure 1) as a ‘Malware-as-a-Service’ (MaaS) threat on various cybercriminal forums, Raccoon is an information stealer targeting victim credentials and cryptocurrency wallets. Seemingly favored by some threat actors due to its simplicity, the malware element of Raccoon omits advanced features, such as those used to evade detection, and instead focuses on the ‘stealer’ task in hand.