Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Coveware: Average Ransom Payment Hits $220,298, Presaging More Supply Chain Attacks Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 27, 2021 Average and median ransom payments per quarter, based on thousands of cases investigated (Source: Coveware) The zero-day attacks against Accellion File Transfer Appliance users…
Cloud Security , Security Operations Private Equity Firm Also Owns Other Security Companies, Including McAfee Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • April 27, 2021 Watch for updates on this developing story. See Also: Live Webinar | Empowering Financial Services with a Secure Data Path From Endpoint to Cloud Private equity firm Thoma Bravo on…
Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Banisher of ‘The Kaminsky Bug’ Lauded for His Drive to ‘Make Things Better’ Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 27, 2021 Dan Kaminsky in an interview conducted at the 2016 RSA Conference in San Francisco (Photo: ISMG) The information security community is mourning…
Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Banisher of ‘The Kaminsky Bug’ Lauded for His Drive to ‘Make Things Better’ Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 27, 2021 Dan Kaminsky in an interview conducted at the 2016 RSA Conference in San Francisco (Photo: ISMG) The information security community is mourning…
The first emergency international assistance aimed at helping stem India’s devastating coronavirus surge arrived in India on Tuesday. But while this was a positive move, solidarity among countries needs to be a continuous thing and not just in times of crisis, the World Health Organization’s Dr Margaret Harris told BBC World News. “It would be…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Agencies Say Russia’s SVR Continues to Target Vulnerable Networks Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • April 26, 2021 The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are warning of continued cyberthreats stemming from Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR, which the…
A lack of trained doctors, nurses and support staff is affecting the ability of large scale hospitals to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, a doctor treating coronavirus patients in the state of Gujarat has said. Dr Devashish Palkar, who is in his final year of training to be a psychiatrist told BBC World News that…
As coronavirus vaccine programmes are rolled out, governments around the world are looking for ways to ease us back into pre-pandemic life – getting people back to sporting fixtures, theatres and other crowded public places. One solution being considered is a digital Covid-19 “vaccine passport” but many have called them discriminatory and some say it…
Cybercrime as-a-service , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Endpoint Security Social Media Giant Says 2 Groups Were Conducting Cyberespionage Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • April 25, 2021 Facebook says it has disrupted the activities of two Palestinian advanced persistent threat groups that targeted victims across the Middle East as part of cyberespionage campaigns. See…
A threat actor has leaked approximately 20 million BigBasket user records containing personal information and hashed passwords on a popular hacking forum. BigBasket is a popular Indian online grocery delivery service that allows people to shop online for food and deliver it to their homes. This morning, a well-known seller of data breaches known as…
