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Motherboard obtained the ransom note that hackers sent Riot Games on Tuesday, which threatened to release ‘League of Legends’ source code. Continue reading Hackers Demand $10M From Riot Games to Stop Leak of ‘League of Legends’ Source Code
As ransomware-related payments surged toward $600 million in the first half of 2021, the U.S. government knew it needed to do more to fight back against cyber criminals. For many years, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) had a Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List for people or organizations acting […]
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Ransomware gangs are major players in the cybersecurity space, especially in recent years. ZDNet reported that ransomware gangs increased their payments by over 311% from 2019 to 2020, with totals for all groups exceeding $350 million in 2020. Ransoms continued rising in 2021. Unit 42, a threat research team at Palo Alto Networks, found that […]
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This post was written with contributions from Andrew Gorecki, Camille Singleton and Charles DeBeck. May and June bring warm weather, backyard barbecues and, in recent years, an uptick in ransomware attacks. Why? “It’s possible workers are distracted because the sun is out and kids are out of school,” said Charles DeBeck, a former senior strategic […]
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Semiconductor giant AMD says that it is investigating what claims to be a major data breach of its network, that saw a group of online criminals steal 450GB of data from its systems.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading AMD held to ransom by gang that claims 450GB of data has been stolen
By Deeba Ahmed
The targeted website which belongs to the Russian Ministry of Construction, Housing, and Utilities, was also asked to…
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By Waqas
Essentially, ransom DDoS attacks are just DDoS with a ransom demand but a sudden increase in these attacks…
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By Deeba Ahmed
All of Nordex’s internal IT systems were shut down, and remote access to the turbines was disrupted due…
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By Deeba Ahmed
All of Nordex’s internal IT systems were shut down, and remote access to the turbines was disrupted due…
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By Deeba Ahmed
Imperva, a cyber security software and services company has thwarted a massive 2.5 million RPS (requests per second)…
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