The Treasury Department is slapping sanctions on First VPN and its administrator for allegedly selling services to ransomware operators, as well as another person aiding ransomware gangs. First VPN Services, or 1VPNS, was “deeply embedded in the cybercriminal ecosystem” and appeared in virtually every Europol investigation in recent years, the law enforcement body said after...Read More
There might be a few grumbl’s at Crumbl. At least, that’s if recent events are anything to go by. A few weeks back, the bakery chain took a break from developing its extensive dessert menu and releasing special-edition weekly cookies to announce a possible menu shake-up, and said announcement was swiftly followed by an employee...Read More
From left, Abbas Khan, Juan Merlos, Ph.D. students, and Tarruck Wheeler, a masters student, all within FAU’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Program Snapshot: Florida Atlantic University recently completed its inaugural Hacking for Defense course, a national innovation program that connects students with real-world challenges from the U.S. Department of Defense and Intelligence...Read More
In Albuquerque, two recently announced company expansions are expected to create just over 100 jobs for the area. Both projects — a cybersecurity firm and a meat processor — are being supported by the New Mexico Local Economic Development Act (LEDA) fund. Securin is expanding its Albuquerque operations with support from the State of New Mexico...Read More
TikTok’s policy chief defended the platform’s safety measures as the European Union pushes ahead with restricting children’s access to social media amid intensifying scrutiny of tech giants. Ali Law, TikTok’s director of public policy and government affairs in Northern Europe, told CNBC’s Karen Tso and Steve Sedgewick that the social media giant was built in...Read More
Police said the West Haven Special Victims Unit, supported by the Investigative Services Unit, Street Crime Unit, Patrol Division, and Meriden Police Department, worked in conjunction this month with the FBI – New Haven, Crimes Against Children Task Force “targeting child predators.” “Undercover FBI agents began communicating with several different individuals online who were seeking...Read More
Handcuffed man. STOCK PHOTO MANILA, Philippines — The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has arrested a lawyer for allegedly trying to extort P1 million from her two clients, who are siblings, in San Pedro, Laguna, by claiming the payment would keep them safe from syndicates that supposedly threaten their lives. The entrapment against the lawyer,...Read More
A recent Qilin ransomware intrusion has revealed a stealthy privilege escalation technique that abuses Active Directory’s built-in replication protocols to harvest domain credentials, including the coveted KRBTGT hash and NTLM password hashes for every account in the domain. Security researcher Maurice Fielenbach, investigating the intrusion, identified the abuse through anomalies in Windows Security logs. The...Read More
When a ransomware crew locks up your servers, the outside negotiator you hire has to know everything about you so that they can negotiate a smaller ransom payment. You tell them what your cyber-insurance covers and what your board is willing to pay. You have to. That’s the whole reason you hire one. But what...Read More
Regular internet users and corporations are not the only victims of malicious hackers. Sometimes, the hackers themselves get hacked. That is what happened in an unusual hacking campaign, where an unknown group of hackers targeted systems already compromised by a prolific cybercrime group known as TeamPCP. Once the hackers broke into those systems, they immediately...Read More
