Mr. Biden says tone of Putin talks was ‘good, positive’ Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin sought to cool tensions in the combustible U.S.-Russian relationship at their first summit in Geneva on Wednesday. However, there was no hiding their differences on issues such as human rights, where Mr. Biden said the consequences for Russia would be…
Google has rolled out yet another update to Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux to fix four security vulnerabilities, including one zero-day flaw that’s being exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-30554, the high severity flaw concerns a use after free vulnerability in WebGL (aka Web Graphics Library), a JavaScript API for rendering interactive…
Multiple suspects believed to be linked to the Clop ransomware gang have been detained in Ukraine after a joint operation from law enforcement agencies in Ukraine, South Korea and the United States. The Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine confirmed that six arrests were made after searches at 21 residences in the…
Entornointeligente.com / US President Joe Biden’s first meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin since assuming office comes amid soaring tensions between Washington and Moscow, with both sides playing down the prospect of any major breakthroughs at the summit. US President Joe Biden holds a press conference after the US-Russia summit in Geneva on June…
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Prosecutors: Crypting Provider Helped Infect 50,000 Computers Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • June 18, 2021 A Russian national has been convicted of aiding a botnet scheme that infected victims’ devices with malicious Kelihos malware and ransomware, according to the U.S. Justice Department. See Also: Live Webinar: Seeking Success…
DDoS Protection , Security Operations Nokia Deepfield: Number of Attacks Surged 50% Over 15 Months Rashmi Ramesh • June 18, 2021 The daily peak of DDoS attack traffic increased 100% from January 2020 and May 2021, reaching 3 Tbps, with most of the high-bandwidth, high-intensity attacks originating from less than 50 hosting companies,…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management , Governance & Risk Management Also Featured: Analysis of Regulatory Landscape; Comments From Rep. Jim Langevin Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • June 18, 2021 Clockwise, from top left: Doug Olenick, Anna Delaney, Tom Field and Scott Ferguson In the latest weekly…
A sharp rise in the number of new coronavirus infections has been seen in Russia. Konstantin Severinov, a professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, told BBC World News that only about 10% of the country was fully vaccinated and there was a strong anti-vaccination sentiment in the country. Mandatory vaccines for staff in public-facing roles…
Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service , Endpoint Security Closing EncroChat and Sky, Plus Careful Word-of-Mouth Management, Drove Anom Uptake Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • June 18, 2021 The FBI’s map of where Anom users were located as of May (Source: court documents) The global law enforcement “Anom” honeypot operation racked up impressive statistics for…
Covid may have put much of the world into lockdown but conflict, persecution and human rights violations has led to a record number of refugees, the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) has said. According the UNHCR’s 2020 Global Trends report, some two thirds of the world’s refugees came from just five countries; Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, South…
