In recent weeks, cybercriminals have increasingly targeted organizations that play critical roles across broad swaths of the US economy. The fallout from those attacks show how hackers are now causing chaos for everyday Americans at an unprecedented pace and scale. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Sunday warned that “very malign actors” had the US in their sights…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Agency Notes Attacks Have Spiked Since February Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • June 8, 2021 Ransomware actors continue to target schools and universities across the U.K., and attacks have surged since February, a new report by the U.K’s National Cyber Security Center warns. The agency has…
US authorities charged Alla Witte for helping build TrickBot, a type of malware that was active for many years in a worldwide campaign, defrauding numerous people. Taking down much of TrickBot was a group effort involving multiple countries and coordination that doesn’t usually happen with similar threats. While all of Trickbot’s infrastructure was eventually primarily…
The chief executive of the massive fuel pipeline hit by ransomware last month is expected to detail his company”s response to the cyberattack and to explain his decision to authorise a multimillion-dollar payment when he testifies before Congress this week. Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount will face the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday, one…
Ratko Mladic, a former Bosnian Serb commander, has lost his appeal against a 2017 conviction for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The UN court upheld the life sentence for his role in the killing of around 8,000 Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995. Bosnia’s Foreign Minister Bisera Turkovic told…
The US Justice Department has recovered most of the multimillion-dollar ransom payment The Guardian reports. The operation to recover cryptocurrency from the Russian-based hacking group is the first carried out by the Biden administration’s task force specializing in ransomware. Moreover, it reflects what officials say is an increasingly aggressive approach to dealing with a…
US Vice-President Kamala Harris is due to hold talks with Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Tuesday. Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute told BBC World News he thought both sides would be trying to figure out what the framework was going to be for a new relationship. “When Donald Trump was…
Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks Case Is First Test for DOJ’s Ransomware and Digital Extortion Task Force Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • June 7, 2021 A 55-year-old Latvian woman has been charged with helping to develop code for the Trickbot cybercriminal gang as well as allegedly stealing banking credentials from…
New malware that has been active for over a year has compromised Windows containers in order to further hack Kubernetes clusters and install backdoors in them with the aim of further malicious activity. Originally developed by Google and now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating the deployment,…
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