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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If exploited, this vulnerability allows an attacker to access resources which are not otherwise accessible without proper authentication. Roon Labs has already fixed this vulnerability in the following versions: Roon Server 2021-05-18 and later.
Softpedia News / Security 8. June 2021 This article has been indexed from Softpedia News / Security The US Department of Justice charged a woman for her alleged involvement as a programmer in a cybercrime group that helped develop TrickBot, according to The Hacker News. The woman in question, Alla Witte, nicknamed Max, of…
New malware active for more than a year is compromising Windows containers to compromise Kubernetes clusters with the end goal of backdooring them and paving the way for attackers to abuse them in other malicious activities. Kubernetes, initially developed by Google and currently maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is an open-source system that…
Posted on June 8, 2021 by Nick Farrell – News Deloitte & Touche has made its second cloud cybersecurity acquisition of the year, buying almost all CloudQuest’s assets. The idea is that CloudQuest’s cloud-native security capabilities will help Deloitte more seamlessly manage security workflows, reduce risk and improve data security as it expands its portfolio…
The Department of Justice announced Monday that it had recovered a majority of the ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline to hackers who shut down its operations last month and caused massive fuel shortages and price hikes. The DOJ said that it had recovered $2.3 million worth of bitcoin out of the $4.4 million ransom that…
