In a press release, the US Department of Justice declared it had charged a Latvian woman for her part in reportedly creating and deploying the Trickbot malware, which infected millions of devices, targeting schools, healthcare institutions, public utilities, and governments. The agency claims that Alla Witte was part of a criminal organization known as the…
Bain and Crosspoint Capital acquire ExtraHop in $900M deal | IT Security News 8. June 2021 This article has been indexed from Security – VentureBeat Bain Capital Private Equity and Crosspoint Capital Partners have agreed to acquire cybersecurity firm ExtraHop in a deal worth $900 million. Like this: Like Loading… Related Tags: Security – VentureBeat…
Detroit: The world’s largest meat processing company says it paid the equivalent of $US11 million ($14.2 million) to hackers who broke into its computer system forcing the closure of meat processing plants in the United States and Australia. Last week Brazil-based JBS said it was the victim of a ransomware attack, but this is the…
Joe Biden last night declared “America is back” as he arrived in Britain for his first trip abroad as US president. The US president also declared that he wanted to see Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, face-to-face to “let him know what I want him to know.
The Biden administration last week expanded a Trump-era list of Chinese companies that Americans can’t invest in because of purported links to the Chinese military and surveillance. Companies on the list include telecom equipment maker Huawei and Chinese oil company China National Offshore Oil Corp. On Tuesday, the Senate passed a bill that aims to…
Loading Once officials identified the address, or “wallet”, that DarkSide had used to collect the payment, it sought permission from a judge in the Northern District of California to seize the funds from the wallet, the New York Times reported. The filing said the “cryptocurrency address” was located in the Northern District of California. The…
Application Security , Governance & Risk Management , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development None Are Rated Critical, But Analysts Say Patching Each Is Important Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 9, 2021 Microsoft’s June Patch Tuesday contained patches for six zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild, including two flaws detected by Kaspersky that…
Summary: A potential security vulnerability in the Intel® Server Platform Services (SPS) may allow denial of service. Intel is releasing firmware updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability. Vulnerability Details: CVEID: CVE-2021-0051 Description: Improper input validation in the Intel(R) SPS versions before SPS_E5_04.
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Company’s IT Team Was Unaware the VPN Exploited to Gain Entry Existed Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 8, 2021 Colonial Pipeline Co. CEO Joseph Blount testifying on Tuesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Colonial Pipeline Co. CEO Joseph Blount defended his…
A reverse engineer has discovered what is claimed to be “the first known malware targeting Windows containers to compromise cloud environments,” a sentence to put any system administrator on edge. Building on work published in December of last year on reverse-engineering Windows containers, security researcher Daniel Prizmant’s latest discovery – made during his day job…
