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The US Congress may have a beef with the firm which paid a ransom totalling $11 million to a gang of cybercriminals. Continue reading Meat supplier JBS probed after paying $11 million ransom to attackers
Criminals are caught in a encrypted chat trap, should you trust Apple’s repair team with your sexy snaps, and do you think the FBI should be able to tell who has been reading the USA Today website? All this and much more is discussed in the lates… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #231: Sexy snaps and encrypted chat traps
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has revealed that it was able to decrypt and snoop on the private messages sent via a supposedly secure messaging app used by criminals… because the app was actually the brainchild of the FBI.
Read more in my arti… Continue reading Criminal networks smashed after using “secure” chat app secretly run by cops
Cybercriminals are running an online competition offering big prizes to anyone who believes they have found an unusual way to help crooks steal cryptocurrency.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading Cryptocurrency hacks wanted – $100,000 prize fund offered in contest run by cybercrime forum
The Conti ransomware gang has successfully managed to extort millions of dollars out of an organisation once again.
What’s notable on this occasion is that the Conti group’s corporate victim is ExaGrid, a backup company. Continue reading Backup appliance firm pays out $2.6 million ransom to attackers
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The US military has been caught exposing its nuclear weapons secrets, and we explore the world of nerdy miners.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graha… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #230: Flash card f-up and energy pipe pilfering
The Babuk ransomware gang is reinventing itself. It says it’s no longer interested in encrypting victims’ data, but will be focusing on stealing information instead.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Babuk ransomware gang says it’s no longer interested in encrypting data, would rather kidnap it instead
The world’s largest meat supplier, JBS, says that it has suffered a cyber attack against its IT systems in North America and Australia impacting its ability to “process” thousands of cattle, sheep, and pigs. Continue reading World’s biggest meat supplier, JBS, suffers cyber attack
The US Army appears to have made a strategic withdrawal from advice it issued to remote workers last week about their use of smart IoT devices.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender BOX blog. Continue reading US Army tells remote workers to switch off their IoT devices (and then withdraws advice)