Cerber

Pierluigi Paganini June 12, 2022
Ransomware gangs are exploiting CVE-2022-26134 RCE in Atlassian Confluence servers

Ransomware gangs are actively exploiting CVE-2022-26134 remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center. Multiple ransomware groups are actively exploiting the recently disclosed remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-26134, affecting Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center. Proof-of-concept exploits for the CVE-2022-26134 vulnerability have been released online, Bleeping Computer reported that starting from […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2017
Two Romanians charged with infecting US Capital Police cameras with ransomware early this year

Two Romanian people have been arrested and charged with hacking into US Capital Police cameras ahead of the inauguration of President Trump. Two Romanian people have been arrested and charged with hacking into control systems of the surveillance cameras for the Metropolitan Police Department in the US. The two suspects, Mihai Alexandru Isvanca, 25, and Eveline […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 21, 2017
Operation Bakovia – Romanian authorities arrest 5 individuals for Spreading CTB Locker and Cerber Ransomware

Operation Bakovia – Romanian police arrested 5 individuals suspected of infecting tens of thousands of computers across Europe and the US with Ransomware. Another success of law enforcement against cybercrime, this time Romanian police have arrested five individuals suspected of infecting tens of thousands of computers across Europe and the United States with Ransomware. The arrests […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2017
Apache Struts 2 vulnerability exploited to deliver the Cerber ransomware

Cyber criminals exploited the recently patched Apache Struts 2 vulnerability CVE-2017-5638 in the wild to deliver the Cerber ransomware. A recently patched Apache Struts 2 vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-5638, has been exploited by crooks in the wild to deliver the Cerber ransomware. The remote code execution vulnerability affected the Jakarta-based file upload Multipart parser under Apache […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2016
Pirate Bay visitors infected with Cerber ransomware via bad ads

Experts at MalwareBytes discovered that Pirate Bay users have been targeted by a malvertising campaign serving the Cerber crypto-ransomware. Recently the visitors of the Pirate Bay website were infected with crypto-ransomware.  Threat actors launched a malvertising attack on Pirate Bay and leveraged on bad ads to serve a ransomware. According to the experts at Malwarebytes attackers used […]