Researchers Find New Evidence Linking Diavol Ransomware to TrickBot Gang

Attacks targeting critical infrastructure have been on the rise in recent years. Back in 2019, for instance, 56% of utility professionals responsible for overseeing risk in their organizations’ operational technology (OT) assets told Siemens and the Ponemon Institute that they experience at least one shutdown or operational data loss event a year. That’s about the…

Germany has blamed Russia for a cyber attack on politicians just weeks before its general election. Berlin said it had “reliable information” that Russia’s GRU military intelligence service was behind the attack. The German Foreign Ministry said hackers had tried to steal email passwords from lawmakers in what may have been an attempt at election…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A senior US official said Friday the Biden administration is close to a decision on retaliation for state-sponsored hacking as fears grew over the fallout from the latest of two major cyberattacks. The official said the White House was working closely with the private sector to ramp up cyber defenses following…

A cyberattack on JBS SA, the world’s largest meat producer, has forced the shutdown of some of the largest slaughterhouses globally, and there are signs that the closures are spreading. A JBS beef plant in in Brooks, Alberta, one of Canada’s largest, was shut down on Monday following the May 30 attack. A trade group…

In a new letter, attorneys general representing 44 U.S. states and territories are pressuring Facebook to walk away from new plans to open Instagram to children. The company is working on an age-gated version of Instagram for kids under the age of 13 that would lure in young users who are currently not permitted to…

One of the oldest cybercrime forums Maza (aka Maza Faka) has been reportedly hacked this week, with its user information dumped online. Maza is an exclusive carding and fraud discussion forum for Russian-speaking cybercriminals, which has been around for more than a decade. According to Intel 471, the incident took place on March 3, 2021,…