Who's been disrupting ransomware operations' data leak sites by targeting them with distributed denial-of-service attacks? No one has yet claimed credit for the ongoing disruptions and slowdowns, but one likely theory is that rival operations are attempting to cause each other pain.
An attacker stole at least $370,000 worth of USDC stablecoins from a smart contract on the Avalanche blockchain in a flash loan attack, affecting liquidity providers. Victim Nereus Finance is enticing the thief to return the stolen funds for a 20% "no questions asked" white hat reward.
U.S. sanctions on Tornado Cash are driving North Korean hackers away from the cryptocurrency mixer. Chainalysis says hackers' use of ineffective obfuscation techniques allowed the blockchain analysis firm to participate in an operation that recovered $30 million stolen from the Ronin bridge.
A U.S. law enforcement investigation involving multiple countries resulted in the shutdown of an online marketplace selling millions of Social Security numbers, payment cards and other credentials. Prosecutors unsealed a complaint against a Moldovan man fingered as the operator.
The world's largest cryptocurrency trading platform is bankrolling a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of the Treasury's sanctions against Tornado Cash. The cryptocurrency mixer is a favored tool of North Korean crypto thieves, who use it to launder stolen funds.
Whether for profit or in furtherance of Russian geopolitical interests - or both - former members of the Conti ransomware group have been targeting networks operated by the Ukrainian government and businesses, as well as European nonprofit organizations, Google's Threat Analysis Group reports.
Albania cut diplomatic ties with Iran following a July cyberattack that disrupted the country's online governmental services portal. Prime Minister Edi Rama today said he gave Iranian diplomats 24 hours to depart the country after establishing Iranian responsibility for the cyberattack.
CISO Marcin Szczepanik recalls when his team's budget was cut dramatically after the onset of the pandemic. He wanted to invest in the latest state-of-the-art tools but prioritized his costs and focused on email security - a move that improved the company's level of cyber maturity.
Patrons of InterContinental Hotels Group hotels might need to call the front desk rather than book hotel rooms online due to an ongoing cyberattack. Cybersecurity intelligence firm Hudson Rock tells ISMG telemetry indicates multiple employees downloaded malware compromising their credentials.
Co-founder and CEO Bipul Sinha has grown Rubrik's business with existing customers by more than 40% thanks to the company's unique take on data observability. The data security vendor has emphasized data availability and resiliency in the face of crippling ransomware and extortion-based attacks.
An Iranian state-sponsored group in operation since 2015 relies on highly targeted social engineering to try and attack individuals and organizations that Tehran deems enemies of the regime, says a new report from cyberthreat intelligence firm Mandiant.
The Labor Day weekend ransomware attack on the Los Angeles Unified School District is drawing serious attention from the U.S. government, which has sent the FBI. The attack vector is unknown, but nearly two dozen compromised district accounts appeared on the dark web in the months before the attack.
Two individuals exploited a flaw in an unaudited smart contract deployed by Rug Pull Finder, a web3 security company that offers smart contract audits to blockchain companies. They scooped up 450 non-fungible tokens from the "Bad Guys" collection, whose theme is bad guys stealing NFTs.
A month after his firm was taken private in a $6.9 billion deal, SailPoint founder and CEO Mark McClain discusses the prospect of consolidation, emerging competition and plans to expand "more quickly and aggressively" in the identity governance space - thanks to Thoma Bravo's financial backing.
China again accused the United States of cyberespionage as it seeks to reframe the global narrative on hacking. China's status as the world's worst cyber thief "annoys them tremendously," says Jim Lewis of CSIS. Beijing says it caught the NSA hacking into Northwestern Polytechnical University.
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