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Intel 471 announced the appointment of Ms. Yang Cao as the company’s senior regional director, Asia-Pacific (APAC). She joins two Intel 471 analysts already on the ground providing in-region cyber threat intelligence. In this new position, Yang will be… Continue reading Intel 471 appoints Yang Cao as senior regional director of APAC
Bandura Cyber released “Cyber Intelligence Marketplace,” allowing Bandura Cyber clients to discover, access, acquire, deploy and enforce a curated collection of high quality cyber intelligence data within minutes across their entire network and edge &#… Continue reading Bandura Cyber Intelligence Marketplace deploys cyber intelligence data across network in real-time
Authorities in Ukraine this week charged six people alleged to have been part of the CLOP ransomware group, a cybercriminal gang said to have extorted more than half a billion dollars from victims. Some of CLOP’s victims this year alone include Stanford University Medical School, the University of California, and University of Maryland. Continue reading Ukrainian Police Nab Six Tied to CLOP Ransomware
In this Help Net Security podcast, Brandon Hoffman, CISO at Intel 471, discusses about the increased collaboration between network access brokers (NAB) and ransomware operators, and how they funcion it today’s threat landscape. Here’s a transcrip… Continue reading Collaboration between network access brokers and ransomware actors deepens
After a decade or so of ransomware attacks against sometimes very prominent targets, the recent Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack by the Darkside gang has been the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back, as the attack was followed by a te… Continue reading RaaS gangs go “private” after stirring a hornet’s nest
The DarkSide ransomware affiliate program responsible for the six-day outage at Colonial Pipeline this week that led to fuel shortages and price spikes across the country is running for the hills. The crime gang announced it was closing up shop after its servers were seized and someone drained funds from an account the group uses to pay affiliates. Continue reading DarkSide Ransomware Gang Quits After Servers, Bitcoin Stash Seized
The FBI confirmed this week that a relatively new ransomware group known as DarkSide is responsible for an attack that caused Colonial Pipeline to shut down 5,550 miles of pipe, stranding countless barrels of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel on the Gulf Coast. Here’s a closer look at the DarkSide cybercrime gang, as seen through their negotiations with a recent U.S. victim that earns $15 billion in annual revenue. Continue reading A Closer Look at the DarkSide Ransomware Gang
In this Help Net Security podcast, Maurits Lucas, Director of Intelligence Solutions at Intel 471, discusses the benefits of cyber threat intelligence. He also talks about how Intel 471 approaches adversary and malware intelligence. Here’s a transcript… Continue reading The benefits of cyber threat intelligence
Over the past few weeks, three of the longest running and most venerated Russian-language online forums serving thousands of experienced cybercriminals have been hacked. In two of the intrusions, the attackers made off with the forums’ user databases, including email and Internet addresses and hashed passwords. Continue reading Three Top Russian Cybercrime Forums Hacked
A clearer picture of poor security practices in Oldsmar, Florida prior to the dangerous hack of its water treatment plant is beginning to emerge, even as an investigation into the matter continues one week after the incident. Three federal agencies teamed up with an organization that shares threat information between states to issue an alert late Thursday explaining how the breach, in which a hacker allegedly tried to raise sodium hydroxide levels to amounts that are harmful to humans, might have unfolded. Initial clues suggest the incident, which was detected before it amounted to a threat to public drinking water, was made possible by lax data protection strategies and exploitation of a software tool. “The cyber actors likely accessed the system by exploiting cybersecurity weaknesses, including poor password security, and an outdated operating system,” reads the alert from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Environmental […]
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