Steps to Take After Resolving Ransomware Incidents | #ransomware | #cybercrime

In part two of our Cybersecurity installment of our Workplace Strategies Watercooler 2025 podcast series, Ben Perry (shareholder, Nashville) and Justin Tarka (partner, London) discuss the steps to take after resolving and containing a ransomware incident. Justin and Ben, who is co-chair of the firm’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice Group, highlight several key areas, including […]

The Strategic Use of Private Companies and Hacktivists in Cyber Operations | #cybercrime | #infosec

Russia’s sophisticated cyber warfare strategy emerges as a calculated blend of state power and non-state agility, leveraging private companies, hacktivists, and criminal proxies to amplify its digital dominance. The roots of this hybrid model trace back to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, when economic turmoil and institutional breakdown created a lawless digital […]

Cyber Security In CB & Chester | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #ransomware

Monday, the 23rd, & Tuesday, the 24th, there’ll be FREE Cybersecurity Clinics in Cut Bank, & Chester. CB’s scheduled for Monday, & Tuesday’s in Chester. The event is open to the public to raise cybersecurity awareness in Cut Bank, & Chester, & ALL 56 Montana counties. If you’re a small business owner, senior citizen, student […]

EU Firms Warn UK Gov’t Not To Ban Ransomware Payments | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #ransomware

By Alex Davidson ( June 18, 2025, 4:43 PM BST) — A European financial markets trade body on Wednesday warned the U.K.’s Home Office that its proposed ban on paying ransomware demands to criminals could destabilize financial markets and lead to cross-border confusion…. Law360 is on it, so you are, too. A Law360 subscription puts […]

Hospitals cleared after cyberattack review: IPC | #ransomware | #cybercrime

The Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) has completed its decision regarding the 2023 criminal ransomware cyberattack which impacted health records and information systems at five hospitals in southwestern Ontario. Bluewater Health, Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Erie Shores HealthCare, Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare and Windsor Regional Hospital were all impacted by the cyberattack. The IPC’s decision concludes the […]

Telangana Cyber Security Bureau signs MoU with NALSAR to combat cybercrime-Telangana Today | #cybercrime | #infosec

Partnership aims to integrate legal research, digital forensics, and operational training, creating a law-and-technology model to tackle cyber threats more effectively across the State Published Date – 18 June 2025, 09:22 PM Representational Photo Hyderabad: In a move to strengthen cybercrime enforcement and legal expertise in Telangana, the Telangana Cyber Security Bureau […]

Israel-Tied Predatory Sparrow Hackers Are Waging Cyberwar on Iran’s Financial System | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker

The Israel-linked hacker group known as Predatory Sparrow has carried out some of the most disruptive and destructive cyberattacks in history, twice disabling thousands of gas station payment systems across Iran and once even setting a steel mill in the country on fire. Now, in the midst of a new war unfolding between the two […]

Researchers Uncovered on How Russia Leverages Private Companies, Hacktivist to Strengthen Cyber Capabilities | #cybercrime | #infosec

A comprehensive new study reveals the sophisticated architecture behind Russia’s externalized cyber warfare strategy, exposing how the Kremlin systematically exploits private companies, hacktivist collectives, and cybercriminal groups to enhance its digital offensive capabilities while maintaining plausible deniability. The research demonstrates that Russia’s cyber outsourcing model emerged from the chaotic post-Soviet collapse of 1991, when institutional […]

Ukraine extradites international cybercrime group member to USA – National Police | #cybercrime | #infosec

Photo: https://npu.gov.ua As part of international legal cooperation, Ukraine has extradited a member of an organized criminal group to the United States, the National Police of Ukraine has reported. “The attackers used malicious software they developed, including encryption viruses, to carry out cyberattacks on leading global industrial enterprises. As a result, the data on the […]