Collaborate Disseminate
Officials deny ransomware, contrary to initial press reports.
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Threat actors have hijacked over 35,000 domains in five years because DNS providers fail to properly verify domain ownership.
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The U.S. government has released at least two Russian nationals behind some of the most notorious cybercrimes of the past decade.
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Court documents reveal Microsoft’s latest move to combat an operation that used fraudulent accounts to skirt CAPTCHA services.
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New legislation would give the agency expanded powers to investigate crimes involving digital assets.
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Attackers exploited the vulnerability by creating an admins group and adding new users to it, Microsoft researchers say.
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Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: FBI article on agency’s Cyber Action Team, data of Pentagon IT provider Leidos leaked, Nigerian cybercriminal sentenced to 12 years in prison.
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A man who allegedly carried out attacks for a North Korean military intelligence agency has been indicted in a conspiracy to hack healthcare firms, NASA, military bases and other entities.
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Federal prosecutors announced the indictment Thursday of a North Korean hacker accused of carrying out ransomware operations that targeted American health care facilities and used the proceeds of those operations to fund espionage efforts against the U.S. military and defense contractors. Rim Jong Hyok is accused of using malware developed by North Korea’s military intelligence […]
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The malicious activity comes as CrowdStrike customers continue to recover from the July 18 outage.
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