The ybersecurity specialist who responded to the incident points out that the major cyberattack that shut down the main fuel pipeline in the United States was the result of a single compromised password, as Al Jazeera notes. According to Charles Carmakal, senior vice president at the cybersecurity firm Mandiant, part of FireEye Inc, the…
Justice Department Tracked the Payment to an FBI-Controlled Bitcoin Wallet Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 7, 2021 The U.S. Justice Department on Monday reported it recouped $2.3 million of the $4.4 million ransom Colonial Pipeline Co. paid following a May 7 DarkSide ransomware attack. The DOJ’s Ransomware and Digital Extortion Task Force…
Threat actors are actively scanning for Internet-exposed VMware vCenter servers unpatched against a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability impacting all vCenter deployments and patched by VMware ten days ago. The ongoing scanning activity was spotted by threat intelligence company Bad Packets yesterday and confirmed earlier today by cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont. Security researchers have also developed and published a proof-of-concept…
Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Money Mule Convictions Unlikely to Slow Gang Activity Rashmi Ramesh • June 7, 2021 Cobalt gang members arrested, sentenced (Photo: Pixabay) A district court in Kazakhstan last Wednesday sentenced two unidentified Cobalt, aka Carbanak, gang members to serve eight years in prison on robbery…
Here’s what you need to know: Video transcript Back transcript Justice Dept. Recovers Millions from Colonial Pipeline Hack The Justice Department said on Monday that it had recovered the majority of the ransom paid to the hackers who shut down the computer systems of the Colonial Pipeline last month. The Department of Justice, working with…
The US has seized millions of dollars earmarked for a Russian hacker network as it works to take down the extortionists that held it to ransom last month. The nation’s Justice Department announced on Monday it had recovered more than half of the $US4.4 million ($A5.7 million) paid by Colonial Pipeline to Russia-based ransomware extortionists…
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The US Department of Justice is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack and mounting damage caused by cyber criminals, a senior department official told Reuters. Internal guidance sent on Thursday to US attorney’s offices across the country said information about ransomware investigations…
Alla Witte and her associates are accused of using Trickbot to infect tens of millions of computers around the world, the Justice Department reports. The US government has charged a Latvian woman for her role in creating the Trickbot malware. Alla Witte was charged in federal court in Cleveland with 19 counts of a 47-count indictment. The indictment…
Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service , Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Australian Politician Argues ‘Releasing the Hounds’ Necessary to Deter Attacks Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • June 7, 2021 The Australian Parliament Building in Canberra A member of Australia’s Parliament is calling for the government’s spy agency to take offensive action against some of the…
