CVE-2021-1572
CVE-2021-1572
Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company, discovered that user data of the Swarmshop card shop have been leaked online on March 17, 2021. The database was posted on a different underground forum and contained 12,344 records of the card shop admins, sellers and buyers including their nicknames, hashed passwords, contact details, history of activity, and…
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Coveware: Average Ransom Payment Hits $220,298, Presaging More Supply Chain Attacks Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 27, 2021 Average and median ransom payments per quarter, based on thousands of cases investigated (Source: Coveware) The zero-day attacks against Accellion File Transfer Appliance users…
Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Europol Says Initiative Has Saved Ransomware Victims Over $1 Billion Rashmi Ramesh • July 28, 2021 EU law enforcement agency Europol says the No More Ransom Project, a portal launched five years ago, so far has helped…
By Raphael Satter and Joseph Menn WASHINGTON: Top executives at Texas-based software company SolarWinds Corp, Microsoft Corp and cybersecurity firms FireEye Inc and CrowdStrike Holdings Inc defended their conduct in breaches blamed on Russian hackers and sought to shift responsibility elsewhere in testimony to a U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday. One of the worst hacks…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is one of the top politicians reportedly spied on by the US. (AP pic) PARIS: France, Germany and other European countries demanded answers Monday following reports the US spied on its allies using Danish underwater cables, as questions mounted over whether Denmark knew about the operation. In an investigative report on Sunday,…
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency , Critical Infrastructure Security , Cryptocurrency Fraud If Ransomware Should Decline as a Viable Criminal Business Model, What Comes Next? Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • July 16, 2021 Source: Cisco Talos The world is now focused on ransomware, perhaps more so than any previous cybersecurity threat in history. But if…