{"id":2841,"date":"2024-12-09T18:12:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T18:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/12\/09\/black-basta-ransomware-evolves-with-email-bombing-qr-codes-and-social-engineering\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T18:12:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T18:12:11","slug":"black-basta-ransomware-evolves-with-email-bombing-qr-codes-and-social-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/12\/09\/black-basta-ransomware-evolves-with-email-bombing-qr-codes-and-social-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Basta Ransomware Evolves with Email Bombing, QR Codes, and Social Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe threat actors linked to the Black Basta ransomware have been observed switching up their social engineering tactics, distributing a different set of payloads such as Zbot and DarkGate since early October 2024.<br \/>\n&#8220;Users within the target environment will be email bombed by the threat actor, which is often achieved by signing up the user&#8217;s email to numerous mailing lists simultaneously,&#8221; Rapid7\u00a0The threat actors linked to the Black Basta ransomware have been observed switching up their social engineering tactics, distributing a different set of payloads such as Zbot and DarkGate since early October 2024.<br \/>\n&#8220;Users within the target environment will be email bombed by the threat actor, which is often achieved by signing up the user&#8217;s email to numerous mailing lists simultaneously,&#8221; Rapid7\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe threat actors linked to the Black Basta ransomware have been observed switching up their social engineering tactics, distributing a different set of payloads such as Zbot and DarkGate since early October 2024. &#8220;Users within the target environment will be email bombed by the threat actor, which is often achieved by signing up the user&#8217;s&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/12\/09\/black-basta-ransomware-evolves-with-email-bombing-qr-codes-and-social-engineering\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Black Basta Ransomware Evolves with Email Bombing, QR Codes, and Social Engineering<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}