Four Eastern European nationals face 20 years in prison for Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) charges after pleading guilty to providing bulletproof hosting services between 2008 and 2015, which were used by cybercriminals to distribute malware to financial entities across the U.S.
The individuals, Aleksandr Grichishkin, 34, and Andrei Skvortsov, 34, of Russia; Aleksandr
U.S. insurance giant CNA Financial reportedly paid $40 million to a ransomware gang to recover access to its systems following an attack in March, making it one of the most expensive ransoms paid to date. The development was first reported by Bloomberg, citing “people with knowledge of the attack.” The adversary that staged the intrusion…
Онлайн-мошенники ввели в заблуждение как минимум 93 тыс. пользователей Android-смартфонов, обманом заставив их приобрести приложения для майнинга криптовалюты. Об этом рассказали в своём отчёте специалисты компании Lookout. В общей сложности эксперты насчитали (PDF) 172 фейковые программы, которые разделили на два семейства: BitScam (83 800 установки) и CloudScam (9 600 установок). Мошенники преподносили их как облачные…
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. The increasingly rich data companies are collecting makes them a more tantalizing target for attacks. But Deep Instinct wants to turn that same data into an enterprise’s greatest defensive asset. Deep Instinct is applying end-to-end deep learning to cybersecurity, an approach…
DarkSide Ransomware gang was behind the recent Colonial Pipeline cyberattack however it is unclear who is behind the seizure of DarkSide’s cyberinfrastructure. The DarkSide ransomware cybercriminals group involved in the six-day outage at Colonial Pipeline last week that led to fuel shortages and price spikes across the United States is calling it quits. The crime…
Microsoft today shared mitigation for a remote code execution vulnerability in Windows that is being exploited in targeted attacks against Office 365 and Office 2019 on Windows 10. The flaw is in MSHTML, the browser rendering engine that is also used by Microsoft Office documents. Ongoing attacks against Office 365 Identified as CVE-2021-40444, the security issue…
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