Softpedia News / Security 8. June 2021 This article has been indexed from Softpedia News / Security The US Department of Justice charged a woman for her alleged involvement as a programmer in a cybercrime group that helped develop TrickBot, according to The Hacker News. The woman in question, Alla Witte, nicknamed Max, of…
New malware active for more than a year is compromising Windows containers to compromise Kubernetes clusters with the end goal of backdooring them and paving the way for attackers to abuse them in other malicious activities. Kubernetes, initially developed by Google and currently maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is an open-source system that…
Posted on June 8, 2021 by Nick Farrell – News Deloitte & Touche has made its second cloud cybersecurity acquisition of the year, buying almost all CloudQuest’s assets. The idea is that CloudQuest’s cloud-native security capabilities will help Deloitte more seamlessly manage security workflows, reduce risk and improve data security as it expands its portfolio…
The Department of Justice announced Monday that it had recovered a majority of the ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline to hackers who shut down its operations last month and caused massive fuel shortages and price hikes. The DOJ said that it had recovered $2.3 million worth of bitcoin out of the $4.4 million ransom that…
The ybersecurity specialist who responded to the incident points out that the major cyberattack that shut down the main fuel pipeline in the United States was the result of a single compromised password, as Al Jazeera notes. According to Charles Carmakal, senior vice president at the cybersecurity firm Mandiant, part of FireEye Inc, the…
Justice Department Tracked the Payment to an FBI-Controlled Bitcoin Wallet Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 7, 2021 The U.S. Justice Department on Monday reported it recouped $2.3 million of the $4.4 million ransom Colonial Pipeline Co. paid following a May 7 DarkSide ransomware attack. The DOJ’s Ransomware and Digital Extortion Task Force…
Threat actors are actively scanning for Internet-exposed VMware vCenter servers unpatched against a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability impacting all vCenter deployments and patched by VMware ten days ago. The ongoing scanning activity was spotted by threat intelligence company Bad Packets yesterday and confirmed earlier today by cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont. Security researchers have also developed and published a proof-of-concept…
Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Money Mule Convictions Unlikely to Slow Gang Activity Rashmi Ramesh • June 7, 2021 Cobalt gang members arrested, sentenced (Photo: Pixabay) A district court in Kazakhstan last Wednesday sentenced two unidentified Cobalt, aka Carbanak, gang members to serve eight years in prison on robbery…
Here’s what you need to know: Video transcript Back transcript Justice Dept. Recovers Millions from Colonial Pipeline Hack The Justice Department said on Monday that it had recovered the majority of the ransom paid to the hackers who shut down the computer systems of the Colonial Pipeline last month. The Department of Justice, working with…
The US has seized millions of dollars earmarked for a Russian hacker network as it works to take down the extortionists that held it to ransom last month. The nation’s Justice Department announced on Monday it had recovered more than half of the $US4.4 million ($A5.7 million) paid by Colonial Pipeline to Russia-based ransomware extortionists…
