{"id":118193,"date":"2021-01-08T20:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T04:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/fbi-warns-of-egregor-attacks-on-businesses-worldwide"},"modified":"2021-01-08T20:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T04:22:39","slug":"fbi-warns-of-egregor-attacks-on-businesses-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/fbi-warns-of-egregor-attacks-on-businesses-worldwide","title":{"rendered":"FBI Warns of Egregor Attacks on Businesses Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fbi-warns-of-egregor-attacks-on-businesses-worldwide.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The agency said the malware has already compromised more than 150 organizations and provided insight into its ransomware-as-a-service behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI has alerted companies in the private sector to a spate of attacks using the Egregor ransomware. The malware currently is raging a warpath across businesses worldwide and has already compromised more than 150 organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The agency issued <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.documentcloud.org\/documents\/20444693\/fbi-pin-egregor-ransomware-bc-01062021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an advisory<\/a> (PDF) that also shed new light and identifies the innerworkings of the prolific malware, which has already been seen wreaking indiscriminate havoc against various types of organizations. Bookseller <a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/egregor-responsibility-barnes-noble\/160401\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a>, retailer <a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/kmart-egregor-ransomware\/161881\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kmart<\/a>, gaming software provider <a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/hackers-source-code-theft-watch-dogs-legion-albion\/160268\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ubisoft<\/a> and the Vancouver metro system <a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/vancouver-metro-egregor-ransomware\/161892\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Translink<\/a> all are known victims of the ransomware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The agency said the malware has already compromised more than 150 organizations and provided insight into its ransomware-as-a-service behavior. The FBI has alerted companies in the private sector to a spate of attacks using the Egregor ransomware. The malware currently is raging a warpath across businesses worldwide and has already compromised more than 150 organizations. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}