Collaborate Disseminate
Narcotics trafficking and money laundering were the main business for Hydra, which researchers say was the largest dark-web market.
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Ransomware strains such as Maze, Ryuk and BlackCat have increasingly been part of FIN7’s playbook in recent years, Mandiant says.
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The list also includes Evgeny Viktorovich Gladkikh, the researcher indicted for creating the malware, which targets industrial control systems.
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The former Treasury Secretary’s Liberty Strategic Capital has made a string of investments in cybersecurity businesses.
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Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 says that in the cases it worked, the average demand was up 144% and average payment was up 78%.
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Business email compromise again proved costliest, at $2.4 billion, according to the bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center
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Igor Dekhtyarchuk allegedly ran the cybercrime forum Marketplace A, which specialized in stolen credit card data and website logins.
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Skyhigh is essentially the last piece of the puzzle created by Symphony Technology Group’s shakeup of several big cybersecurity brands.
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Cybercrime organization Lapsus$ posted suspicious screenshots. Microsoft officials said they are “aware of the claims and are investigating.”
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The entry points for Magecart and other e-commerce skimmers are changing, but the attackers are getting more clever, too.
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