The January cyberattack on the International Committee of the Red Cross, which compromised the data of more than 515,000 highly vulnerable people, was specifically targeted at the organization, using code designed for execution on the ICRC servers, according to Director General Robert Mardini.
SecurityScorecard provides analysis of organizational cyber hygiene through a rating system, while LIFARS, a digital forensics firm, has offered witness testimony for major federal cybercrime cases involving nation-state threat actors. CEOs for both firms tell ISMG why their merger is significant.
Reports say that Ukraine's defense ministry and two banks have fallen victim to a cyberattack on Tuesday. This follows what appeared to be mild escalation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict over the weekend, in which top U.S. officials warned that Russia could invade the former Soviet state this week.
By almost every measure, ransomware continues to get worse, not least in the average amount criminals receive when a victim chooses to pay a ransom. So say new reports assessing the volume and severity of ransomware attacks, the flow of cryptocurrency, attackers' target selection and more.
"All too often we hear that our industrial control systems have no security. That's not true," says Kevin Jones, group CISO of Airbus. In fact, he states, "some of these systems have been designed with security encapsulating them and security around them." He discusses enhancing cyber resilience.
A serious cyberattack hit Slovenia's largest media firm, Pro Plus, last week, affecting the broadcasting services and website operations of the country's top private TV channel, Pop TV. The company says it is working with the Slovenian CERT to investigate the breach.
Hefty proposed settlements have been reached in class action lawsuits involving two separate health data breaches affecting millions of individuals. The incidents were reported by a Texas-based administrative services vendor in 2021 and a Puerto Rico-based clearinghouse in 2019.
Days after the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Secret Service issued a cybersecurity advisory on the ransomware-as-a-service group BlackByte, it hit the corporate IT network of the U.S. National Football League's San Francisco 49ers team.
Security experts explain how the Rust programming language helps the BlackCat ransomware group execute targeted attacks on critical infrastructure. Compared to traditional languages like C or C++, Rust brings speed, security, stability and unparalleled detection evasion capabilities to the table.
Russian authorities have continued to arrest alleged administrators of multiple Russian-language cybercrime markets and communities, including Ferum Shop, Sky-Fraud and Trump's Dumps. It follows last month's arrest of suspected REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware affiliates based in the country.
In case anyone doubts that Russia is the epicenter of ransomware operations, follow the money, as Chainalysis finds that "roughly 74% of ransomware revenue in 2021 - over $400 million worth of cryptocurrency - went to strains we can say are highly likely to be affiliated with Russia in some way."
Spain's National Police Department says it has arrested eight members of an undisclosed cybercriminal gang over SIM swapping fraud. The suspects posed as trustworthy representatives of banks and other organizations and used phishing and smishing techniques to obtain PII and bank details of victims.
In the latest weekly update, four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss important cybersecurity issues, including how the BlackMatter ransomware group has rebranded itself yet again, how the DOJ confiscated stolen Bitcoin worth more than $4 billion and takeaways from a U.S. Senate hearing on open-source...
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