NEW Cooperative, an Iowa-based farm services cooperative, has reportedly been targeted by the BlackMatter ransomware gang, demanding a $5.9 million payment from the organization, according to security researchers and published reports. The cooperative is working with law enforcement agencies.
In the latest security incident involving a decentralized finance protocol, cross-chain project pNetwork announced Sunday it had been hacked for 277 pBTC, a form of wrapped bitcoin, with losses worth over $12 million at current value.
Earlier this month, McAfee Enterprise's Advanced Threat Research team, working with McAfee's Professional Services IR team, reported that an APT campaign dubbed Operation Harvest had been in operation for years. Their analysis provides insight into the group's tools, tactics and techniques.
The French shipping firm CMA CGM reported on Monday that it had been struck with a data breach almost a year after it was hit with a ransomware attack that knocked its systems offline for several days.
Alaska's Department of Health and Social Services says it is notifying "all Alaskans" that their personal and protected health information may have been compromised in a nation-state-sponsored cyberattack that was detected in May, from which the department is still recovering.
The Mēris botnet, responsible for huge waves of DDoS attacks recorded by cybersecurity firms Qrator Labs and Cloudflare, is still active, using "abandoned" MikroTik routers. The attack signatures saw a spike of 21.8 million requests per second, exploiting a vulnerable version of MikroTik RouterOS.
While there is no dearth of talent among Indian bug bounty hunters, hurdles such as lack of trust, payment disputes, cost, unethical practices and lack of regulatory laws deter the growth of the bug bounty programs in the country, according to some experts.
More than 15 million email addresses and individuals' personal details have been leaked by Anonymous in reprisal for Texas' new law restricting abortion. The leaked information allegedly comes from Epik, which has hosted far-right websites, including for the Republican Party of Texas.
The Biden administration may soon unveil plans to curtail the ransomware attacks that have crippled corporate networks this year. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the Treasury Department will announce sanctions and similar guidance designed to disrupt the ransomware model.
Security firm ZeroPeril has disclosed a vulnerability in AMD's Platform Security Processor chipset driver that affects almost all generations of its Ryzen processors, including some of the older AMD CPUs. Mitigations released by AMD can be implemented either with the recently released Windows Update or by manually...
The Mirai botnet is actively exploiting the known vulnerability CVE-2021-38647, which is part of a quarter of vulnerabilities dubbed OMIGOD, in Microsoft's Azure Linux Open Management Infrastructure framework, according to Kevin Beaumont, head of the security operations center for Arcadia Group.
Cisco Talos researchers have connected a previously discovered series of aviation industry attacks stretching back more than three years to a Nigeria-based attacker. The attacker sold the stolen information on the darknet, the researchers say.
CISA, the FBI and the U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command warn users of Zoho Corp.'s single sign-on and password management tool to patch for a vulnerability that nation-state groups may look to exploit. Attackers could use the bug to compromise credentials and exfiltrate data from Active Directory.
Score one for the good guys in the fight against ransomware: Anyone who fell victim to REvil, aka Sodinokibi, crypto-locking malware before July 13 can now decrypt their files for free, thanks to a decryptor released by security firm Bitdefender.
Regarding the recent tactical innovation by the Grief ransomware gang that is threatening to wipe a victim's data and decryption key if the victim engages a ransom negotiator, analysts are calling this a desperate ploy to scare a target into paying the ransom demand.
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