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Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Elliptic Says It Traced Payments by Colonial Pipeline and Many Others Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • May 18, 2021 Ransom payment amounts generated by DarkSide ransomware (Source: Elliptic) The DarkSide ransomware gang apparently collected over $90 million in ransom payments from about…
The operator of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline confirmed it paid $4.4m to a gang of hackers who broke into its computer systems. Colonial Pipeline said Wednesday that after it learned of the 7 May ransomware attack, the company took its pipeline system offline and needed to do everything in its power to restart it…
Cryptocurrency Fraud , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Group-IB: Administrator, Seller and Buyer Data Also Stolen Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • April 8, 2021 Here’s a guide to the national origin of card data that was stolen from the Swarmshop market. (Source: Group-IB) For the second time in two years, the contents of…
It’s been less than two weeks since a criminal cybergang group known as DarkSide succeeding in shutting down a pipeline that transports 45% of the United State’s gas and fuel supply along the East Coast, causing severe outages from Georgia to Virginia. While Colonial Pipeline slowly resumed operation last week, service will likely be impacted…
Unknown attackers recently attempted to carry out a large-scale supply-chain attack by introducing malicious code to the official PHP GIT repository. If the developers hadn’t noticed the backdoor in time, it could have ended up on many Web servers and led to the largest supply-chain attack in history. What happened with PHP The programmers who…
A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel, a St. Charles, Ill. man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet users and websites. Gatrel’s conviction comes roughly two weeks after his co-conspirator pleaded guilty…