ZDNet Three state-backed financial groups in China have issued a joint statement warning against the use of cryptocurrencies as payment, citing their volatility as a high risk. They further remind industry players that digital currencies …
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Bleeping Computer The DarkSide ransomware gang has collected at least $90 million in ransoms paid by its victims over the past nine months to multiple Bitcoin wallets. Around 10% of the profit came in one …
DarkSide ransomware made $90 million in just nine months Read More »
Bleeping Computer As devastating ransomware attacks continue to have far-reaching consequences, companies still try to hide the attacks rather than be transparent. Below we highlight a company’s response to an attack that should be used …
Ransomware victim shows why transparency in attacks matters Read More »
Bleeping Computer The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that scammers actively target the vulnerable families of missing persons attempting to extort them using information shared on social media. The warning comes in the form …
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Bleeping Computer Branches of insurance giant AXA based in Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the Philippines have been struck by a ransomware cyber attack. As seen by BleepingComputer yesterday, the Avaddonransomware group claimed on their leak site …
Insurer AXA hit by ransomware after dropping support for ransom payments Read More »
Bleeping Computer Graduating students from several universities in the U.S. have been reporting fraudulent transactions after using payment cards at popular cap and gown maker Herff Jones. In the wake of the reports that started …
Herff Jones credit card breach impacts college students across the US Read More »
Naked Security Earlier this week we wrote about a jailbreak hack against Apple’s newly introduced AirTag product. In that story, the researcher @ghidraninja was able to modify the firmware on the AirTag itself, despite the …
Apple AirTag hacked again – free internet with no mobile data plan! Read More »
Electronic Frontier Foundation President Joe Biden on Friday rescinded a dangerous and unconstitutional Executive Order issued by President Trump that threatened internet users’ ability to obtain truthful information online and retaliated against services that fact-checked …
Bleeping Computer Ireland’s health service, the HSE, says they are refusing to pay a $20 million ransom demand to the Conti ransomware gang after the hackers encrypted computers and disrupted health care in the country. Ireland’s …
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ZDNet The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), and the overseeing Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), know who attacked the email system of the Australian Parliament House, but they are not saying who it is. Attribution is …
ASD knows who attacked the APH email system but isn’t revealing who Read More »
Bleeping Computer One of the most popular Russian-speaking hacker forums, XSS, has banned all topics promoting ransomware to prevent unwanted attention. XSS is a Russian-speaking hacking forum created to share knowledge about exploits, vulnerabilities, malware, …
Popular Russian hacking forum XSS bans all ransomware topics Read More »
Bleeping Computer Chemical distribution company Brenntag paid a $4.4 million ransom in Bitcoin to the DarkSide ransomware gang to receive a decryptor for encrypted files and prevent the threat actors from publicly leaking stolen data. …
Chemical distributor pays $4.4 million to DarkSide ransomware Read More »