Despite active attacks by gangs such as the NoName ransomware group, which has targeted small and medium-sized businesses worldwide for the past three years, the group has continued to grow by using custom malware and evolving its attack methods.
A recent link pointing to NoName has led to the conclusion that the group is no longer independent, but is now affiliated with RansomHub. As a result of this development, cyber security levels worldwide are in danger, especially for small and medium-sized businesses.
A new affiliate has now joined extortion group RansomHub, an up-and-coming online criminal extortion group, and its main claim to fame so far has been impersonating LockBit ransomware-as-a-service, which is based out of the Netherlands. It has been well-documented that NoName exploits vulnerabilities that date back many years.
Over the last three years, it has been well documented that the NoName ransomware gang, also known as CosmicBeetle, has been creating waves worldwide by targeting small and medium-sized businesses. Recent observations have shown that the gang is making use of a new type of malware called RansomHub to carry out its crimes. For gaining access to networks, the gang uses a variety of custom tools, including those from the Spacecolon malware family, which it acquired from cybercriminals.
A number of the tools that are used to distribute these tools use brute force methods t
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