2026-02-27
Gottumukkala out, Andersen in as acting CISA director: The move follows a story about criticisms of CISA's performance during the first year of the Trump administration, with Madhu Gottumukkala's leadership a point of contention. The post Gottumukkala... https://cyberscoop.com/... [image]
ABC News
CISA's interim director Madhu Gottumukkala is reassigned as DHS' director of strategic implementation; executive assistant director Nick Andersen will take over
The nominee to serve as CISA director has not yet received a hearing. — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) …
2024-05-09
Boeing confirms attempted $200 million ransomware extortion attempt: That attempt was one of multiple “extremely large” ransom demands made by LockBit over the years, authorities said. The post Boeing confirms attempted $200 million ransomware... https://cyberscoop.com/... [image]
CyberScoop
Boeing confirms that LockBit attempted to extort a $200M ransom in October 2023; the company reportedly didn't pay any ransom after ~43GB of its data was posted
AJ Vicens / CyberScoop :
2024-02-16
Ukrainian national pleads guilty for roles in Zeus, IcedID malware operations: Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov pleaded guilty to two counts, each of which carries a possible 20-year prison term. The post Ukrainian national pleads guilty for roles in... https://cyberscoop.com/... [image]
CyberScoop
Ukrainian Vyacheslav Penchukov pleads guilty in the US for his role in the Zeus and IcedID malware groups, which stole millions from victims for over a decade
Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov pleaded guilty to two counts, each of which carries a possible 20-year prison term.
2022-05-18
Pangea raises $25 million to deliver API-based security services for application builders: Pangea Cyber Corporation emerged from stealth to announce $25M in Series A funding to offer application builders a comprehensive portfolio of API-based security... https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
SiliconANGLE
Palo Alto-based Pangea, which offers embedded security APIs for cloud-native app builders, emerges from stealth with a $25M Series A led by Ballistic Ventures
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
2020-10-13
Microsoft and other tech companies orchestrate takedown of TrickBot botnet: FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, NTT, Symantec, and the Microsoft Defender team participated in the takedown. https://www.zdnet.com/... https://twitter.com/...
ZDNet
Microsoft, Symantec, ESET, and other tech companies orchestrated an attempt to take down the TrickBot malware botnet, which had infected 1M+ computers
FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, NTT, Symantec, and the Microsoft Defender team participated in the takedown.
2020-10-12
Microsoft and other tech companies orchestrate takedown of TrickBot botnet: FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, NTT, Symantec, and the Microsoft Defender team participated in the takedown. https://www.zdnet.com/... https://twitter.com/...
ZDNet
A coalition of tech companies, including Microsoft and Symantec, orchestrated a takedown of the TrickBot malware botnet, which had infected 1M+ computers
FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, NTT, Symantec, and the Microsoft Defender team participated in the takedown.
2020-04-23
How to better protect your organization against email threats: As most generic spam now gets blocked, attackers have turned to more targeted, personalized phishing emails to reel in their victims, according to security firm Trustwave. https://www.techrepublic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
ZDNet
Trustwave: ransomware attacks have quadrupled YoY in 2019 and have overtaken credit card theft as the most common form of cybercrime
Danny Palmer / ZDNet :
2020-01-15
Equifax to pay customers $380.5 million as part of final breach settlement: Equifax has agreed to pay $380.5 million to resolve allegations related to the 2017 data breach in which hackers stole information belonging to some 147 million Americans, under... https://www.cyberscoop.com/... https://twitter.com/...
CyberScoop
Equifax to pay $380.5M to members of a class action suit whose data was compromised in 2017 breach, after a federal judge approved the final settlement Monday
Equifax has agreed to pay $380.5 million to resolve allegations related to the 2017 data breach in which hackers stole information belonging …