Qakbot Malware Attacks Resurrected By Black Basta Hacker Collective Qakbot Malware Utilized as a Means of Cyber Extortion in Canada Qakbot malware and ransomware attacks have soared across the globe as a new hacker group known as “Black Basta” has targeted a number of Canadian corporations. Qakbot ransomware sometimes referred [...]
Cyber criminals are relentless and very creative, they will gladly exploit any cyber weakness that appears within a company. For Paytm, this couldn’t be truer. As a financial technology company operating a worldwide online payment system, there is no lack of criminals planning and attempting to target the organization due to its nature.
Having the proper security solutions implemented is only half of the challenge, as knowing how, where and when Paytm will be targeted would offer what static security solutions currently lack – to prevent the unexpected and unknown.
To assist Paytm, Mjolnir Security provided a Darknet Threat Intelligence monitoring service that scours the Deep Web and Darknet, where the criminals reside, for any threats targeting Paytm.
Very quickly, the findings were staggering and shed some needed light on what exactly was done by the criminals and, more importantly, how did Paytm needed to react.
Scenario: Org 9 is a multi-national Japanese manufacturing robotics company headquartered in Japan with European operations. Org 9 designs and manufactures robotics used in fabrication and manufacturing facilities throughout the world from automotive production lines to the assembly of microelectronics. [...]
