Collaborate Disseminate
es, you should be worried about the threat posed by external hackers. But also consider the internal threat posed by insiders and rogue employees – the people you have entrusted to act responsibly with the data of your company and your customers.
Did the sentence fit the crime? Read the backstory, and then have your say in our comments! (You may post anonymously.) Continue reading Ex-CEO of breached pyschotherapy clinic gets prison sentence for bad data security
Stealing private keys is like getting hold of a medieval monarch’s personal signet ring… you get to put an official seal on treasonous material. Continue reading Attention gamers! Motherboard maker MSI admits to breach, issues “rogue firmware” alert
Italian luxury sports car maker Ferrari has suffered a data breach and has confirmed on Monday that it “was recently contacted by a threat actor with a ransom demand related to certain client contact details,” but that it won’t be pay… Continue reading Ferrari data breach: Client data exposed
The suit comes about six weeks after the ransomware threatened to post sensitive material online if they weren’t paid.
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Rogue software packages. Rogue “sysadmins”. Rogue keyloggers. Rogue authenticators. Rogue ROGUES! Continue reading S3 Ep124: When so-called security apps go rogue [Audio + Text]
Deployment of backdoors was the number one action on objective taken by threat actors last year, according to the 2023 IBM Security X-Force Threat Intelligence Index — a comprehensive analysis of our research data collected throughout the year. Backdoor access is now among the hottest commodities on the dark web and can sell for thousands […]
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A former software engineer at Ubiquiti Networks has pleaded guilty to stealing gigabytes of data from the firm, attempting to extort millions of dollars, and damaging the company’s reputation in the media.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Secu… Continue reading Ex-Ubiquiti worker pleads guilty to data theft, extortion, and smear plot
Company transcribed ultra-personal conversations, didn’t secure them. Criminal stole them, then extorted thousands of vulnerable patients. Continue reading Finnish psychotherapy extortion suspect arrested in France
Chainalysis reports that worldwide ransomware payments were down in 2022.
Ransomware attackers extorted at least $456.8 million from victims in 2022, down from $765.6 million the year before.
As always, we have to caveat these findings by noting that the true totals are much higher, as there are cryptocurrency addresses controlled by ransomware attackers that have yet to be identified on the blockchain and incorporated into our data. When we published last year’s version of this report, for example, we had only identified $602 million in ransomware payments in 2021…