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DOGE to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data – Krebs on Security - On Monday, The New York Times reported that U.S. Secret Service agents at the White House were briefly on alert last month when a trusted captain of Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) visited the roof of the ...
3 months ago Krebsonsecurity.com

Section 702 Surveillance Reauthorization May Get Slipped Into 'Must-Pass' NDAA - House majority leader Steve Scalise and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries did not respond to WIRED's requests for comment, nor did any senior members of the House and Senate armed services committees. Republican staffers tell WIRED that extending ...
1 year ago Wired.com

More than $100 million in ransom paid to Black Basta gang over nearly 2 years - The Black Basta cybercrime gang has raked in at least $107 million in ransom payments since early 2022, according to research from blockchain security company Elliptic and Corvus Insurance. The group has infected more than 329 victim organizations ...
1 year ago Therecord.media FIN7 Black Basta

Competing Section 702 surveillance bills on collision path The Register - Two competing bills to reauthorize America's FISA Section 702 spying powers advanced in the House of Representatives committees this week, setting up Congress for a battle over warrantless surveillance before the law lapses in the New Year. At stake ...
1 year ago Go.theregister.com

Competing Section 702 surveillance bills on collision path The Register - Two competing bills to reauthorize America's FISA Section 702 spying powers advanced in the House of Representatives committees this week, setting up Congress for a battle over warrantless surveillance before the law lapses in the New Year. At stake ...
1 year ago Theregister.com

Behind Closed Doors: The Dangers of Relying on In-House Platforms for Business Success - Setting the right strategy for a company is indeed only half the battle against the competition in today's volatile digital world. The majority of business processes in companies evolve organically and slowly over time, and this in turn easily ...
1 year ago Cysecurity.news

Anti-Ransomware Coalition Bound to Fail Without Key Adjustments - COMMENTARY. Ransomware is a pervasive issue affecting businesses of all sizes and industries, and the best way to respond remains hotly debated. While much fanfare coincided with the announcement of a US-led, 40-country coalition to collectively ...
1 year ago Darkreading.com

Ransomware Revenue Down 20% in 2022 as More Victims Refuse to Pay: Report - A new report indicates that the average ransom collected by ransomware attackers has declined by 20% in 2022 as more individuals and organizations are opting to not pay ransom demands. The report, which was released by Check Point Research, also ...
2 years ago Securityweek.com

Xerox confirms 'security incident' at subsidiary The Register - Xerox has officially confirmed that a cyber baddie broke into the systems of its US subsidiary - a week after INC Ransom claimed to have exfiltrated data from the copier and print giant. Xerox Business Solutions, a subsidiary of Xerox, offers a range ...
1 year ago Go.theregister.com Inc ransom

Yamaha Motor confirms ransomware attack on Philippines subsidiary - Yamaha Motor's Philippines motorcycle manufacturing subsidiary was hit by a ransomware attack last month, resulting in the theft and leak of some employees' personal information. "One of the servers managed by [.] motorcycle manufacturing and sales ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Inc ransom

Estes Declines Ransom Demand Amidst Personal Data Breach and Theft - Estes Express Lines, a major private freight shipping company in the United States, has notified over 20,000 customers about a security breach where their personal information was stolen by unknown hackers. The company revealed that on October 1, ...
1 year ago Cysecurity.news LockBit

Do the casino ransomware attacks make the case to pay? The Register - Feature The same cybercrime crew broke into two high-profile Las Vegas casino networks over the summer, infected both with ransomware, and stole data belonging to tens of thousands of customers from the mega-resort chains. Despite the similar ...
1 year ago Go.theregister.com Scattered Spider

Do the casino ransomware attacks make the case to pay? The Register - Feature The same cybercrime crew broke into two high-profile Las Vegas casino networks over the summer, infected both with ransomware, and stole data belonging to tens of thousands of customers from the mega-resort chains. Despite the similar ...
1 year ago Theregister.com Scattered Spider

Top officials again push back on ransom payment ban - The Institute for Security and Technology's Ransomware Task Force threw cold water on the need for a ransomware payment ban in a report released Wednesday. Most of the RTF's recommendations are already in place, under development or at least ...
1 year ago Cybersecuritydive.com

Hive Ransomware: A Detailed Analysis - This past week, on January 26th, to be exact, the FBI successfully shut down the Hive ransomware group and saved victims over a hundred million dollars in ransom payments and remediation costs. As ransomware continues to be a national security threat ...
2 years ago Heimdalsecurity.com LockBit

U.S. Joins U.K. to Seize LockBit Site, Disrupt Massive Ransomware Variant - The U.S. Department of Justice has partnered with the United Kingdom and international law enforcement partners in London today to announce the disruption of the LockBit ransomware group. The LockBit ransomware group is one of the most active ...
1 year ago Americansecuritytoday.com LockBit

Black Basta ransomware made over $100 million from extortion - Russia-linked ransomware gang Black Basta has raked in at least $100 million in ransom payments from more than 90 victims since it first surfaced in April 2022, according to joint research from Corvus Insurance and Elliptic. Over 329 victims ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Carbanak FIN7 Qilin Black Basta

Black Basta's ransom haul tops $100M in less than 2 years - The Black Basta ransomware gang has raked in more than $100 million from victims of its double-extortion attacks since its emergence early last year, according to researchers. The haul - which included grabbing $9 million from one victim and more ...
1 year ago Packetstormsecurity.com LockBit Black Basta

EquiLend back in action as ransom payment rumors swirl The Register - Global securities finance tech company EquiLend's systems are now back online after announcing a disruptive ransomware attack nearly two weeks ago. EquiLend was founded in 2001 by some of Wall Street's biggest players - its board of directors ...
1 year ago Go.theregister.com LockBit

PowerSchool hacker now extorting individual school districts - "PowerSchool is aware that a threat actor has reached out to multiple school district customers in an attempt to extort them using data from the previously reported December 2024 incident," PowerSchool shared in a statement to BleepingComputer. In ...
1 month ago Bleepingcomputer.com

Congressional leaders seek to extend contested surveillance program until April - The life of foreign spying tools set to expire in a few weeks could be briefly extended until April 19 after congressional leaders inserted a short-term renewal into the annual defense policy bill. The decision to attach a temporary renewal of ...
1 year ago Therecord.media Silence

The Pentagon Tried to Hide That It Bought Americans' Data Without a Warrant - United States officials fought to conceal details of arrangements between US spy agencies and private companies tracking the whereabouts of Americans via their cell phones. Obtaining location data from US phones normally requires a warrant, but ...
1 year ago Wired.com

FISA Section 702 renewal approved by House The Register - Infosec in brief US Congress nearly killed a reauthorization of FISA Section 702 last week over concerns that it would continue to allow warrantless surveillance of Americans, but an amendment to require a warrant failed to pass. Section 702 of the ...
1 year ago Go.theregister.com CVE-2024-2424 CVE-2024-3313

Ransomware payment ban: Wrong idea at the wrong time The Register - Opinion A general ban on ransomware payments, as was floated by some this week, sounds like a good idea. This is because a payment ban would inevitably have to include an exception for incidents where not paying the ransom poses a serious risk of ...
1 year ago Go.theregister.com

Energy giant Schneider Electric hit by Cactus ransomware attack - Energy management and automation giant Schneider Electric suffered a Cactus ransomware attack leading to the theft of corporate data, according to people familiar with the matter. BleepingComputer has learned that the ransomware attack hit the ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Cactus