Sources: UK companies tell the UK that a planned ban on paying ransoms to ransomware gangs is unlikely to stop attacks and could result in services collapsing
Kieran Smith / Financial Times : LinkedIn: Greg Palmer . Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social LinkedIn: Greg Palmer : Georgina Kon and I spoke with Kieran Smith from the Financial Times about the...
The UK plans to ban public sector and key infrastructure organizations from paying ransoms to ransomware gangs and require others to notify the UK if they pay
targets ‘public sector bodies and operators of critical national infrastructure’ Nidhi Singal / CSO : Interlock ransomware threat expands across the US and Europe, hits healthcare and smart cities Chr...
The US DOJ indicts three Russian citizens for allegedly operating Bender.io and Sinbad.io crypto mixing services used by North Korea and ransomware gangs
If you own crypto, you are complicit. [embedded post] Mastodon: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb@infosec … : NEW: A year after seizing two cryptocurrency mixing services, the U.S. governmen...
The US DOJ indicts three Russian citizens for allegedly operating Bender.io and Sinbad.io crypto mixing services used by North Korea and ransomware gangs
If you own crypto, you are complicit. [embedded post] X: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb : NEW: A year after seizing two cryptocurrency mixing services, the U.S. government is accusing thr...
Cybersecurity experts say that global law enforcement agencies dealt Russia-linked LockBit a major blow, but history shows that ransomware gangs regroup quickly
- Disruption of LockBit praised as major blow against gang — History has shown that hackers regroup quickly, experts say
The FBI led an effort to dismantle the Qakbot botnet, which ransomware gangs used as an infection vector for years, on August 25 after infiltrating its network
It was live on 700k endpoints (!) which should give you an idea of the scale of cybersecurity woes at many orgs (it's still really, really bad out there). X: Nick Carr / @itsreallynick : payments.txt ...
The US and the UK sanction seven people based in Russia, with likely FSB ties, connected to the Conti and Ryuk ransomware gangs and the Trickbot banking trojan
on par with terrorism and military crisis between states. Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk : Russian Cybercrime Gang Trickbot Sanctioned by US, UK Maggie Miller / Politico : U.S., U.K. sanction Russian hacke...
The US and the UK sanction seven people, all based in Russia, connected to the Conti and Ryuk ransomware gangs and the Trickbot banking trojan
The United Kingdom and United States on Thursday sanctioned seven people connected to what officials have told The Record is a single network behind …
Report: ransomware gangs are using intermittent encryption, where files are partly encrypted, to evade detection tools looking for intense file I/O operations
A growing number of ransomware groups are adopting a new tactic that helps them encrypt their victims' systems faster while reducing …Source:SentinelOne.
Google details Exotic Lily, a “financially-motivated threat actor” that works as an initial access broker for Russian hackers and ransomware gangs like Conti
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