A cyberattack shutdown US Colonial Pipeline

Industrial cybersecurity vendor Dragos has expanded into Australia and New Zealand, establishing a new regional headquarters in Melbourne. Dragos specialises in detecting and responding to cyber threats that target industrial control systems, which are critical to the continued operations of power plants, water and energy supplies, and other critical infrastructure. The company expanded into Australia…

DarkSide, the group behind the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack that generated fuel shortages and price increases across the United States, is shutting down. This may be due to pressure from the US government.  The cybercriminals’ group blog, that was used for naming and shaming, as well as the website used for ransom and CDN, were all…

Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Darknet Market Only Accepts Monero, Promotes Malware and Botnets, Bans Ransomware Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • August 12, 2021     The new AlphaBay darknet market’s homepage (Source: Elliptic) The notorious AlphaBay darknet marketplace appears to be getting rebooted. See Also: Live Webinar | Password…

Google on Wednesday updated its May 2021 Android Security Bulletin to disclose that four of the security vulnerabilities that were patched earlier this month by Arm and Qualcomm may have been exploited in the wild as zero-days. “There are indications that CVE-2021-1905, CVE-2021-1906, CVE-2021-28663 and CVE-2021-28664 may be under limited, targeted exploitation,” the search giant…

The maintainers of Exim have released patches to remediate as many as 21 security vulnerabilities in its software that could enable unauthenticated attackers to achieve complete remote code execution and gain root privileges. Collectively named ’21Nails,’ the flaws include 11 vulnerabilities that require local access to the server and 10 other weaknesses that could be…

Written by Tonya Riley Aug 9, 2021 | CYBERSCOOP Two individuals involved with laundering funds from U.S. victims of cybercrime pleaded guilty to their role in a transnational organization that relied in part on hacking to defraud victims out of millions of dollars, the Justice Department announced Friday. The defendants, Arturs Zaharevics and Aleksejs Trofimovics,…