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Digital rights org claims cyberattacks against Filipino media outlets come from government and army

Qurium Media Foundation has reported a campaign of DDoS attacks on Filipino media outlets and human rights organisations that appear to be coming from the country’s Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and Army. During …

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International law enforcement op nukes Russian-language DoubleVPN service allegedly favoured by cybercriminals

Europol, the US Department of Justice, and Britain’s National Crime Agency have taken down a VPN service they claimed was mainly used by criminals – boasting that they hoovered up “personal information, logs and statistics” …

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Good news for pentesters and network admins: US issues ransomware guidance asking biz to skill up security teams

The Register The White House has issued a communique to business leaders urging them to take the threat of ransomware a bit more seriously. The memo, from deputy national security advisor for Cyber and Emerging …

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Ransomware victim Colonial Pipeline paid $5m to get oil pumping again, restored from backups anyway – report

The Register Colonial Pipeline’s operators reportedly paid $5m to regain control of their digital systems and get the pipeline pumping oil following last week’s ransomware infection. News of the payoff was broken by Bloomberg – …

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Russian cyber-spies changed tactics after the UK and US outed their techniques – so here’s a list of those changes

The Register Russian spies from APT29 responded to Western agencies outing their tactics by adopting a red-teaming tool to blend into targets’ networks as a legitimate pentesting exercise. Now, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre …

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