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Conti ransomware gang victimized US health care, first-responder networks, FBI says

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The FBI tracked at least 16 Conti ransomware attacks that struck U.S. health care and first-responder networks within the last year, the bureau said in an alert this week. That accounting only factors in attacks in the past year, and incidents that the FBI itself identified. In all, the alert said Conti has hit 400 organizations, nearly 300 of which were in the U.S. The recent first responder victims include law 9-1-1 dispatch centers, emergency medical services, law enforcement agencies and municipalities, the FBI said. The Conti gang has sought as much as $25 million to decrypt systems it locked up, according to the alert. The FBI warning comes as the Irish health care system is contending with its own Conti ransomware attack. It also comes shortly after a report that CNA Insurance paid a $40 million extortion demand — the biggest yet revealed, as extortionists continue to ratchet up […]

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Are emails sent from ProtonMail to Tutanota (or vice versa) ever not encrypted?

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Both mail accounts, ProtonMail and Tutanota are encrypted, and as the knowledge base from ProtonMail states, ‘emails from ProtonMail users to non-ProtonMail users’ are ‘otherwise encrypted with TLS if the non-ProtonMail mail server support… Continue reading Are emails sent from ProtonMail to Tutanota (or vice versa) ever not encrypted?→

Profiling a Currently Active High-Profile Cybercriminals Portfolio of Ransomware-Themed Extortion Email Addresses – Part Two

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Continuing the “Profiling a Currently Active High-Profile Cybercriminals Portfolio of Ransomware-Themed Extortion Email Addresses” series including the original “Exposing Protonmail and Tutanota’s Illicit Abuse by Ransomware Gangs – A Compilation of Cu… Continue reading Profiling a Currently Active High-Profile Cybercriminals Portfolio of Ransomware-Themed Extortion Email Addresses – Part Two→

ProtonMail, Tutanota among authors of letter urging EU to reconsider encryption rules

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Encrypted service providers are urging lawmakers to back away from a controversial plan that critics say would undercut effective data protection measures. ProtonMail, Threema, Tresorit and Tutanota — all European companies that offer some form of encrypted services — issued a joint statement this week declaring that a resolution the European Council adopted on Dec. 14 is ill-advised. That measure calls for “security through encryption and security despite encryption,” which technologists have interpreted as a threat to end-to-end encryption. In recent months governments around the world, including the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and Japan, have been reigniting conversations about law enforcement officials’ interest in bypassing encryption, as they have sporadically done for years. In a letter that will be sent to council members on Thursday, the authors write that the council’s stated goal of endorsing encryption, and the council’s argument that law enforcement authorities must rely on […]

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Bomb Threat, DDoS Purveyor Gets Eight Years

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A 22-year-old North Carolina man has been sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for conducting bomb threats against thousands of schools in the U.S. and United Kingdom, launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and for possessing sexually explicit images of minors. Continue reading Bomb Threat, DDoS Purveyor Gets Eight Years→

Exposing Protonmail and Tutanota’s Illicit Abuse by Ransomware Gangs – A Compilation of Currently Active Ransomware-Themed Email Addresses

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UPDATE: ProtonMail and Tutanota removed all the accounts.Dear blog readers,I’ve recently decided to update and expand my original post on currently active email addresses used by ransomware gangs and DIY ransomware users with an additional set of Proto… Continue reading Exposing Protonmail and Tutanota’s Illicit Abuse by Ransomware Gangs – A Compilation of Currently Active Ransomware-Themed Email Addresses→

Solution to the ‘Browser Crypto Chicken-and-Egg Problem’?

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From time to time, questions come up in this board concerning web applications that utilize client-side cryptography (or ‘in-browser’ cryptography), where these applications claim to be designed in such a way that the operators of these ap… Continue reading Solution to the ‘Browser Crypto Chicken-and-Egg Problem’?→

Profiling a Currently Active High-Profile Cybercriminals Portfolio of Ransomware-Themed Extortion Email Addresses

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 UPDATE: I’ve just updated the original post and added an additional set of ransomware-themed extortion email addresses.Dear blog readers,I wanted to take the time and effort and present the findings of my most recent Technical Collection efforts in th… Continue reading Profiling a Currently Active High-Profile Cybercriminals Portfolio of Ransomware-Themed Extortion Email Addresses→

Why do trolls’ posts keep getting promoted and upvoted while truth-saying posts are deleted? [closed]

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Yesterday, I asked this question: How can Tutanota, ProtonMail and Hushmail all claim to provide privacy when they only allow privacy-incompatible payment options?
It’s now been "closed" as "off-topic", even though it c… Continue reading Why do trolls’ posts keep getting promoted and upvoted while truth-saying posts are deleted? [closed]→

ProtonMail and StartMail blocked as Russia hunts for bomb threat spammers

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ProtonMail is the second encrypted email provider in the last week to find itself blocked from its Russian users, after authorities in the country said threats had been spammed out claiming that bombs had been planted in public places.
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