Crypto Hack Earned Crooks $600 Million
Crypto Hack Earned Crooks $600 Million
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Agencies Say Russia’s SVR Continues to Target Vulnerable Networks Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • April 26, 2021 The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are warning of continued cyberthreats stemming from Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR, which the…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Experts Dispute Findings of Report by International Institute for Strategic Studies Rashmi Ramesh • July 14, 2021 Some security experts are questioning the findings of a recent report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a London-based think tank, that…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Disruption of Meat Processing Giant JBS Exposes Sector’s Security Shortcomings Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • June 4, 2021 Photo: US Department of Agriculture via Flickr/CC The ransomware attack that disrupted operations at meat processing giant JBS for nearly a week has exposed numerous cybersecurity shortcomings within…
At least one China-linked APT group exploited a new zero-day flaw in Pulse Secure VPN equipment to break into the networks of US defense contractors. According to coordinated reports published by FireEye and Pulse Secure, two hacking groups have exploited a new zero-day vulnerability in Pulse Secure VPN equipment to break into the networks of US defense contractors…
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have released a joint cybersecurity advisory, highlighting the top Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) routinely exploited by cyber actors in 2020 and those vulnerabilities being widely exploited thus far in 2021. Cyber actors…
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:36 — 29.7MB) | Embed Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | In this episode of the podcast (#214), Brandon Hoffman, the CISO of Intel 471 joins us to discuss the recent ransomware attack on the Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline, and the suspected group behind it: DarkSide a ransomware…