"Send me a quick text" Chaos is a new ransomware group making its mark with aggressive campaigns and calculated pressure on victims. What appears to be a fresh name is, in fact, a continuation of familiar strategies, designed to confuse analysts and buy the attackers more time. In this episode, we break down how Chaos positions itself in the ransomware landscape, why its approach is so disruptive, and what defenders can learn from the group’s focus on leverage, pressure, and rebranding. The s...
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"Send me a quick text" Chaos is a new ransomware group making its mark with aggressive campaigns and calculated pressure on victims. What appears to be a fresh name is, in fact, a continuation of familiar strategies, designed to confuse analysts and buy the attackers more time. In this episode, we break down how Chaos positions itself in the ransomware landscape, why its approach is so disruptive, and what defenders can learn from the group’s focus on leverage, pressure, and rebranding. The s...
"Send me a quick text" Chaos is a new ransomware group making its mark with aggressive campaigns and calculated pressure on victims. What appears to be a fresh name is, in fact, a continuation of familiar strategies, designed to confuse analysts and buy the attackers more time. In this episode, we break down how Chaos positions itself in the ransomware landscape, why its approach is so disruptive, and what defenders can learn from the group’s focus on leverage, pressure, and rebranding. The s...
"Send me a quick text" A recent phishing campaign is targeting Instagram users with messages that closely resemble legitimate account alerts. Victims are tricked into responding in ways that validate their address and gradually hand over details attackers can use to reset passwords, hijack accounts, and pivot into connected services. Once an account is taken, it can be locked for ransom, abused to spread further scams, or sold on underground markets. Key defensive actions: Train users to veri...
"Send me a quick text" Attackers abused phishing emails carrying shortcut files inside archives to deploy a legitimate crash-reporting executable paired with a malicious library. The library hijacked normal functions, retrieved encoded payloads hidden in GitHub, Quora, and Microsoft Tech Community profiles, and then redirected the victim system to GitHub raw content pages hosting encrypted shellcode. Once decrypted, the shellcode injected Cobalt Strike Beacon into memory, giving attackers ful...
"Send me a quick text" Chaos is a new ransomware group making its mark with aggressive campaigns and calculated pressure on victims. What appears to be a fresh name is, in fact, a continuation of familiar strategies, designed to confuse analysts and buy the attackers more time. In this episode, we break down how Chaos positions itself in the ransomware landscape, why its approach is so disruptive, and what defenders can learn from the group’s focus on leverage, pressure, and rebranding. The s...
