Dive Brief: Dive Insight: Healthcare organizations face one of the largest volumes of cyberattacks of any critical infrastructure sector, and those intrusions can also be some of the costliest. The new data from Fortified paints a picture of a healthcare industry struggling to combat ransomware attacks and other security compromises. In the first half of...Read More
CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Division of the FBI announced during a news conference on Tuesday that three Russians from St. Petersburg have been indicted on a slew of charges for crimes against Ohioans, other Americans and individuals in several other countries. The following individuals and companies were charged in a 75-page indictment for allegedly using...Read More
Backups are often the last line of defense when ransomware reaches business-critical systems. But modern ransomware attacks do not target production data alone. Attackers may also search for backup repositories, compromise backup administrator accounts, change retention policies or delete recovery points before encrypting the live environment. When clean backup copies are no longer available, recovery...Read More
Toto Wolff has amassed obscene amounts of wealth over the years in his business career, which has led with him working with some interesting characters.
Even outside of the personalities of the F1 circus, the Austrian businessman has run across some true characters via his investment companies – including a teenage hacker who he...Read More
Dive Brief: Enterprise security teams are incorporating AI into their programs at a faster rate than ever before, but a significant gap exists in the governance policies that are designed to support that expansion, according to a report released Monday by the SANS Institute. Four out of 10 security practitioners said there is no formal...Read More
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
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
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
