A lack of power and funding has limited the World Health Organization’s (WHO) capacity to deal with pandemics, the co-chair of a panel looking at the response to the coronavirus pandemic has said. Helen Clark, from the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, told BBC World News that the WHO was caught in the…
Microsoft fixed 55 vulnerabilities yesterday including three zero-days not thought to have been exploited in the wild, one of which affected the under-fire Exchange Server. This month’s Patch Tuesday is lighter than many have been in recent months, but there were four critical CVEs for admins to address, alongside the three publicly disclosed bugs. Top…
Leaders of individual countries need to work for the good of the world as a whole if we are to be better prepared to tackle pandemics, the World Health Organization’s special envoy for Covid-19, has said. “Unless we work for the good of all, we are all going to end up in a lot of…
Ransom software works by encrypting victims’ data; typically hackers will offer the victim a key in return for cryptocurrency payments that can run into the hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. If the victim resists, hackers are increasingly threatening to leak confidential data in a bid to pile on the pressure. Loading DarkSide’s…
Weak governments on both the Israeli and Palestinian side are helping to drive the current conflict which could escalate further, James F Jeffrey, a former US ambassador to Syria, Iraq and Turkey has said. He told BBC World News that it was going to require a very complicated set of steps to de-escalate the violence….
The ransomware campaign in question is targeting organizations from an extensive array of sectors in the US and worldwide, with the FBI declaring in a TLP:GREEN flash alert published last week that Avaddon affiliates are trying to breach the networks of manufacturing, healthcare, and other private sector organizations around the world. Whilst the FBI offered this…
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Affiliate-Driven Ransomware-as-a-Service Operations Keep Generating Big Profits Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • May 11, 2021 Statements posted to DarkSide’s data leak site “It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.” See Also: Live Webinar | Software Security: Prescriptive vs. Descriptive That immortal…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime as-a-service , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks Cybereason’s Sam Curry on DarkSide and New Breed of Ransomware Attack Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • May 12, 2021 Sam Curry, CSO, Cybereason In April, Cybereason published a blog describing its research into the DarkSide ransomware strain that infected…
Share Tweet Share Share Share Email With concerns over such data as personal information and intellectual property on the rise, Microsoft is linking up with cybersecurity company Darktrace to offer an artificial intelligence (AI) defense across the cloud. The companies said in a press release that their combined…
One of the largest disruptions of U.S. critical infrastructure by cyber-attack – the Colonial Pipeline Hack – occurred on Friday and continues to develop. Here’s what you need to know. The Colonial Pipeline company operates a pipeline transporting gasoline, diesel, and natural gas from Texas to New Jersey, serving most of the East Coast. A…
