Ransom Payments Surge 176% to $1.88M: Coveware Report
Most cyber crime investigations reveal the aftermath of an attack. Few reveal the attackers themselves.
That’s what makes Check Point Research’s latest investigation into StopAndProtect so unusual.
While analyzing a newly identified cyber crime operation, researchers uncovered a series of operational security (OPSEC) mistakes that exposed the attackers’ own infrastructure including: victim logs, screenshots, source code, internal management tools, and evidence of a campaign impacting more than 5,000 infected computers worldwide. The investigation also uncovered files referencing close to 2,000 compromised WordPress domains, providing a rare look inside how a modern cyber criminal operation is built and managed.
According to Eli Smadja, Head of Research at Check Point Research:
“StopAndProtect shows how attackers can turn thousands of poorly maintained WordPress sites into a distributed criminal infrastructure for malware delivery, surveillance, data theft, and ransomware. Based on our research findings, we urge organizations be cautious of unexpected CAPTCHA prompts that...
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