Australian spies should be allowed to take offensive action against some of the world's most prominent ransomware gangs, says Tim Watts, a member of Australia's Parliament who says the move, proposed under the Labor Party's push for a national ransomware strategy, would deter attackers.
A district court in Kazakhstan sentenced two unidentified Cobalt, aka Carbanak, gang members to serve eight years in prison on robbery and attempted robbery charges. The gang members are believed to have been involved in cashing out operations, according to Group-IB.
Investigators have found that ransomware operators gained access to Colonial Pipeline via a VPN account that was no longer used and didn't have two-step verification enabled. The credentials turned up in a data breach, but security researchers say it's unclear if that's how the attackers sourced them.
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If you're a Russian cybercrime gang feeling the heat after being sanctioned by the U.S. government, why not rebrand? So goes an apparent move by Evil Corp to disguise its WastedLocker ransomware as rival gang Babuk's PayloadBin, so any ransom payers won't think they're violating U.S. sanctions.
In response to a string of high-profile and damaging ransomware attacks that took place over the past several months, the Biden administration sent an open letter to U.S. business leaders asking them to take the proper steps to protect their organizations from ransomware.
Cox Media Group's TV and radio affiliates' ability to livestream content was mostly offline Thursday evening, possibly due to an unspecified cyber incident, says the security firm Recorded Future.
The ransomware attack that disrupted operations at meat processing giant JBS has exposed cybersecurity shortcomings in the U.S. agricultural sector and food supply chain. Experts say the industry demands the level of security scrutiny given to the electrical grid and other critical infrastructure.
Researchers at Google have identified a new Rowhammer exploit, dubbed Half-Double, which targets design flaws in some of the newer DRAM chips to alter their memory content.
It is particularly challenging for financial institutions to catch authorized push payment fraud. But behavioral metrics can play a big role in detecting these incidents, says Steve Ledford of The Clearing House.
Election security improvements, the push for all software to ship with a "bill of materials" and the results of a long-running investigation into a lucrative digital advertising scam are among the latest cybersecurity topics to be featured for analysis by a panel of Information Security Media Group editors.
The White House has written to business leaders, urging them to prioritize having robust ransomware defenses in place. The move comes as the Biden administration pursues multiple strategies to combat ransomware and digital extortion, including ordering a new task force to coordinate all federal investigations.
The road to cybersecurity compliance has changed dramatically in recent years, with proactive efforts such as incident response, forensic investigation and threat hunting on the rise.
However, compliance standards have typically not kept pace with the need for companies to level-up their security stance in an era of...
Antivirus (AV) software has generally been regarded by businesses as the best and simplest defense to keeping data and systems secure. That somehow, it is nearly unconquerable. In reality, while AV products are certainly a must-have in your security solutions suite, they do not provide 100% protection against...
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