Collaborate Disseminate
Marco A. De Felice (aka @amvinfe) writes: Embargo is yet another ransomware group emerging in the digital extortion landscape, a group that some industry analysts compare to the much more well-known Alphv group. However, programming similarities do not… Continue reading Never heard of the Embargo ransomware group? SuspectFile provides some insight.
A court-authorized international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Justice Department disrupted a botnet used to commit cyber attacks, large-scale fraud, child exploitation, harassment, bomb threats, and export violations. As part of this opera… Continue reading 911 S5 Botnet Dismantled and Its Administrator Arrested in Coordinated International Operation
When the FBI and its law enforcement collaborators seized BreachForums on May 15, a splash screen announced the seizure. But by the next morning, BreachForums seemed to have regained control of their domain. How that happened has yet to be explained by… Continue reading Did BreachForums get its domain back because NiceNIC was originally nicer to them than to law enforcement?
There have been a few developments likely related to the seizure of BreachForums. As a preview, recall that Kantonspolizei Zürich was one of the cooperating entities in the takedown and that the seizure notice had two avatars behind bars. One avatar wa… Continue reading Swiss law enforcement actions appear linked to seizure of BreachForums
Purvi Khemani reports: A Reddit user recently shared a troubling experience on the platform. They claimed they were fired from TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) after reporting a security issue. Using the handle @Personal_Stage4690, they posted on the ‘D… Continue reading TCS Employee Suspended After Reporting a Security Incident, Reddit Post Goes Viral
Jonathan Greig reports that a CISA resource is having a positive effect at both a federal level as well as for non-governmental organizations: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has run its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV)… Continue reading CISA’s KEV catalog making a positive difference to defenders
Alexander Martin reports: Water for People, a nonprofit that aims to improve access to clean water for people whose health is threatened by a lack of it for drinking and sanitation, is the latest organization to have been hit by ransomware criminals. T… Continue reading Ransomware gang targets nonprofit providing clean water to world’s poorest
YLE reports: The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has fallen victim to cyber extortion, Finnish news agency STT reports on Sunday. The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church is one of the largest members of the LWF, a global Lutheran organisation. Earlier … Continue reading Ransomware attack targets global Lutheran group
ArtForum reports: Several US arts institutions were rendered unable to display their collections online after a cyberattack struck a tech service provider used by the museums, the New York Times reports. Among those affected by the breach targeting Gal… Continue reading Major Us Museums Suffer Cyberattack Fallout
Wilfred Chan reports: Providers of critical infrastructure in the United States are doing a sloppy job of defending against cyber intrusions, the National Security Council tells Fast Company, pointing to recent Iran-linked attacks on U.S. water utiliti… Continue reading U.S. water utilities were hacked after leaving their default passwords set to ‘1111,’ cybersecurity officials say