Former contractor deleted 1,200 user accounts in revenge. A disgruntled IT contractor worker was sentenced today in federal court for hacking into the server of a Carlsbad, Calif., company and deleting over 1,200 Microsoft user accounts in retaliation for a bad performance review. The unnamed company had to shutter for two days while it dealt…
A Shell logo sits on a totem sign at a Royal Dutch Shell Plc petrol filling station in Cobham, U.K., on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Royal Dutch Shell Plc will cut as many as 9,000 jobs as Covid-19 accelerates a company-wide restructuring into low-carbon energy. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg , Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell…
An IT contractor who carried out a retaliatory cyber-attack after being fired for underperforming has been sent to prison. Indian national Deepanshu Kher was hired by an American IT consulting firm in 2017. The firm sent Kher to the headquarters of a company in Carlsbad, California, to assist the business with its migration to a…
Another ransomware operation known as ‘Black Kingdom’ is exploiting the Microsoft Exchange Server ProxyLogon vulnerabilities to encrypt servers. Over the weekend, security researcher Marcus Hutchins, aka MalwareTechBlog, tweeted that a threat actor was compromising Microsoft Exchange servers via the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities to deploy ransomware. Based on the logs from his honeypots, Hutchins states that the threat actor…
CopperStealer Malware Attacks Facebook and Instagram Business Accounts | IT Security News 23. March 2021 The cybersecurity researchers at Proofpoint have recently issued all the details regarding a new undocumented malware, which is dubbed as “CopperStealer.” According to the report, the threat actors are spreading this undocumented malware via fake software that continuously destroying the…
Cybercrime , Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Prodaft: APT Group Uses ‘Unprecedented Malware Detection Sandbox’ Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • March 22, 2021 SolarWinds attack timeline (Source: Prodaft) Swiss cybersecurity firm Prodaft says it has accessed several servers used by an advanced persistent threat group tied to the SolarWinds supply chain attack. These…
A security guard who let Brittany Higgins and her alleged rapist into Parliament House says she later found her passed out naked on a couch. Ms Higgins, then 24, claims a high-flying senior Liberal Party staffer raped her on that couch in the office of Defence Minister Linda Reynolds’ office in March 2019. The colleagues…
EU Council Adopts Cybersecurity Strategy The Council of the European Union announced today that it has officially adopted a new cybersecurity strategy.The strategy, which looks ahead to the next decade, was presented to the council in December 2020 by the European Commission and the high representative for foreign affairs.It contains a framework for how to defend businesses, organizations, and…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , ID Fraud , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Five Cybersecurity Deals Revealed in 2 Weeks, Continuing Consolidation Trend Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • March 22, 2021 This year’s brisk cybersecurity M&A activity is continuing, with five more deals announced in the last two weeks. See Also: Top 50 Security…
Ransomware demand of $50M from Acer is the biggest ever. The biggest ransomware attack in history was observed on 18th March 2020 when cybercrime syndicate REvil demanded $50M from the PC manufacturer, Acer. The details were revealed when REvil hackers published on their dark web leak sites that negotiations between them and the Taiwan-based firm…
