A Microsoft Teams phishing campaign, leveraging techniques commonly used in Black Basta ransomware attacks, was found to spread a unique PowerShell backdoor in recent attacks, ReliaQuest reported Friday.The March 2025 malware campaign also leveraged a persistence tactic never before seen in the wild, according to ReliaQuest, in which the Windows Type Library (TypeLib) is hijacked … Read more
Mar 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Threat Intelligence Threat actors deploying the Black Basta and CACTUS ransomware families have been found to rely on the same BackConnect (BC) module for maintaining persistent control over infected hosts, a sign that affiliates previously associated with Black Basta may have transitioned to CACTUS. “Once infiltrated, it grants attackers a … Read more
Welcome to the March 2025 issue of the Latest News in Financial #AdvisorTech – where we look at the big news, announcements, and underlying trends and developments that are emerging in the world of technology solutions for financial advisors! This month’s edition kicks off with the news that Morningstar Office will be shutting down in … Read more
Brown, Goldstein & Levy is honored to receive the annual Diversity Award, presented by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. The award is presented to an organization in the greater Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area that advances diversity and inclusion of attorneys in the legal profession. … Read more
More than a year’s worth of internal chat logs from a ransomware gang known as Black Basta have been published online in a leak that provides unprecedented visibility into their tactics and internal conflicts among its members. The Russian-language chats on the Matrix messaging platform between September 18, 2023, and September 28, 2024, were initially … Read more