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…
Security researchers have discovered the first known malware, dubbed “Siloscope,” targeting Windows Server containers to infect Kubernetes clusters in cloud environments. “Siloscape is heavily obfuscated malware targeting Kubernetes clusters through Windows containers,” said Unit 42 researcher Daniel Prizmant. “Its main purpose is to open a backdoor into poorly configured Kubernetes clusters in order to run…
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…
The coronavirus pandemic continues to mean severe travel restrictions around the world – but the rules are changing all the time. Clive Wratten, chief executive of the Business Travel Association, and Tiffany Smith, founder of the Love of Food and Travel, blog answer questions from BBC World News viewers about the latest regulations.
Entities using the name and iconography of hacktivist collective Anonymous have deemed Elon Musk’s recent crypto-tweeting worthy of a re-emergence. A new video that uses the group’s trademark Guy Fawkes mask and a digitised voice opens by voicing appreciation for Musk’s contributions to space exploration and electric car production, but then accuses him of being…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: The hack that took down the largest fuel pipeline in the U.S. and led to shortages across the East Coast was the result of a single compromised password, according to a cybersecurity consultant who responded to the attack. Hackers gained entry into the networks ofColonial Pipeline Co.on…
Recruitment & Reskilling Strategy , Security Awareness Programs & Computer-based Training , Training & Security Leadership Dr. Claudia Natanson Describes Vision of U.K.’s New Self-Regulatory Body Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • June 5, 2021 Dr. Claudia Natanson, chair, UK Cyber Security Council The U.K. Cyber Security Council is a…
The US Department of Justice has charged a Latvian woman for allegedly being part of the infamous Trickbot Group that deployed the Trickbot malware, which infected millions of victim computers worldwide. The Trickbot Group operated in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Suriname, and primarily targeted victim computers belonging to businesses, entities, and individuals. Targets…
