Two ex-staffers of cybersecurity incident response companies Sygnia and DigitalMint plead guilty to targeting US companies in 2023's BlackCat ransomware attacks
group demanded up to $10 million from each victim Jonathan Greig / The Record : Ransomware responders plead guilty to using ALPHV in attacks on US organizations Deeba Ahmed / Hackread : 2 US Cybersecu...
A look at life in online scam compounds run by Chinese gangs on the Myanmar-Thai border, with purported Thai immigration officials luring trafficking victims
Thailand has become a key transit hub for trafficking victims … Bluesky: Adolfo Arranz / @adolfux : Over 185,000 brush strokes went into creating this visual story in “sequential art” format about gan...
Elon Musk blames a “massive cyberattack” with “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” for a series of outages on X on March 10
Outages have been preventing X feeds from loading across web … Jonathan Greig / The Record : Musk blames X outages on alleged ‘massive’ cyberattack Newsweek : Dark Storm Team Claims DDoS Attack on X, ...
An investigation details an operation by Chinese hacking group APT40 to lure graduates who studied English into translating stolen documents via a front company
Thursday, June 30, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: Dataminr Tweets: Max Seddon / @maxseddon : “Chinese students have been lured to work at a secretive technology company that masked the true nature...
Research: RT en Español is the third-most shared site on Twitter for Spanish-language info about Russia's invasion and in March saw a boost in Facebook likes
Associated Press : Tweets: @alirogin , @eliothiggins , @abcpolitics , @nickknudsenus , and @razhael Tweets: Ali Rogin / @alirogin : Fascinating, and scary: Russia is focusing its disinformation effor...
Sources describe how the US has bolstered Ukraine's cyber defenses with soldiers and cybersecurity experts, working with Ukraine years before Russia's attack
Most cyberattacks in Ukraine continue … Tweets: Raphael Satter / @razhael : The @FT goes into some detail about America's last-minute efforts to secure the networks of the Ukrainian railways & the Ukr...
In a post on the REvil dark web blog, the gang takes credit for the Kaseya attack, claims it infected 1M+ systems, and demands $70M in bitcoin for the decryptor
and Kaseya's $70M REvil demand Usama Jawad / Neowin : Ransomware group demands $70 million in Bitcoin for “universal decryptor” Gavin Phillips / MUO : Ransomware Group Demands $70m Bitcoin Payment to ...
Microsoft president Brad Smith defended the company's political contributions in a meeting with employees after some questioned donations from its PAC
and has never had — a PAC. @BradSmi https://twitter.com/... Steve Schmidt / @steveschmidtses : .@ProjectLincoln @Microsoft has sent a crystal clear message about the importance of democracy. I'm confi...
Source: Treasury's hackers used a flaw in a SolarWinds product; SolarWinds, which touts 300K+ customers, says the flaw was the result of a “supply chain attack”
and it has the Kremlin's fingerprints all over it. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Thomas Brewster / @iblametom : New - A review of contract records shows DOD, FBI, DHS, Veterans Affairs and many other ...
Report details the use of telecom snooping tools provided by Circles, an NSO Group affiliate, by 25 nations, some of which have a history of human rights abuses
Did These 25 Countries Buy It? Tweets: Stphane Duguin / @duguinstephane : Reports after reports, the work of @citizenlab is not only revealing the reality of state sponsored intrusions at scale. It bu...