Sources: UK companies tell the UK that a planned ban on paying ransoms to ransomware gangs is unlikely to stop attacks and could result in services collapsing
Kieran Smith / Financial Times : LinkedIn: Greg Palmer . Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social LinkedIn: Greg Palmer : Georgina Kon and I spoke with Kieran Smith from the Financial Times about the...
Cybersecurity experts say that global law enforcement agencies dealt Russia-linked LockBit a major blow, but history shows that ransomware gangs regroup quickly
- Disruption of LockBit praised as major blow against gang — History has shown that hackers regroup quickly, experts say
The FBI led an effort to dismantle the Qakbot botnet, which ransomware gangs used as an infection vector for years, on August 25 after infiltrating its network
It was live on 700k endpoints (!) which should give you an idea of the scale of cybersecurity woes at many orgs (it's still really, really bad out there). X: Nick Carr / @itsreallynick : payments.txt ...
Report: ransomware gangs are using intermittent encryption, where files are partly encrypted, to evade detection tools looking for intense file I/O operations
A growing number of ransomware groups are adopting a new tactic that helps them encrypt their victims' systems faster while reducing …Source:SentinelOne.
Google details Exotic Lily, a “financially-motivated threat actor” that works as an initial access broker for Russian hackers and ransomware gangs like Conti
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US investigators traced ransomware payments back to companies in Moscow skyscraper Federation Tower East, suggesting Russia tolerates ransomware operators
Cybersecurity experts tracing money paid by American businesses to Russian ransomware gangs found it led to one of Moscow's most prestigious addresses. Tweets: @hatr , @adam_k_levin , @ericgarland , @...
A joint advisory by the FBI, NSA, CISA, and EPA reveals three more ransomware attacks on water treatment plants this year in Nevada, Maine, and California
Ransomware gangs have silently hit three US water and wastewater treatment facilities this year, in 2021, the US government … Source: CISA .
A joint advisory by the FBI, NSA, CISA, and EPA reveals three more ransomware attacks on water treatment plants this year in Nevada, Maine, and California
Ransomware gangs have silently hit three US water and wastewater treatment facilities this year, in 2021, the US government … Source: CISA .
Investigation finds ransomware hackers are publishing sensitive information of schoolchildren on the dark web; over 1,200 US K-12 schools had data leaks in 2021
Most don't have bank passwords. Few have credit scores yet. And still, parts of the internet are awash in the personal information of millions of schoolchildren. Tweets: @kevincollier , @kevincollie...
How Monero, a cryptocurrency that obscures the sender and receiver, is increasingly being used by ransomware gangs wary of bitcoin's traceability
Untraceable ‘privacy coin’ is rising in popularity among ransomware gangs, posing problems for law enforcement Tweets: @tomhillenbrand , @katie_martin_fx , and @financialtimes Tweets: @tomhillenbrand ...