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An international law enforcement operation has led to the arrests of suspected core members of the prolific DoppelPaymer ransomware operation.
German and Ukrainian police, working with law enforcement partners including Europol and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), said they took action last month against the notorious group...
The U.S. government is sounding the alarm about the Royal ransomware operation, which it says has targeted numerous critical infrastructure sectors across the United States.
In a joint advisory released on Thursday, the FBI and U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA said that Royal ransomware has claimed multiple victims in the...
Hatch Bank, a digital-first bank that provides infrastructure for fintech companies offering their own brand credit cards, confirmed hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the company’s internal file transfer software that allowed access to thousands of customer Social Security numbers.
The vulnerability in Fortra’s GoAnywhere file-transfer software came to...
Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender has released a free decryption tool for MortalKombat, a months-old strain of ransomware targeting predominantly cryptocurrency users.
MortalKombat, named after the popular video game franchise, was first observed by Cisco Talos researchers in January. The researchers said that the financially motivated gang had been deploying...
U.S. satellite television provider Dish confirmed that a ransomware is to blame for an ongoing outage and warned that intruders exfiltrated data from its systems.
The multiday outage, which began last Thursday and was confirmed by Dish on Monday, is affecting Dish’s main website, apps and customer support systems,...
Crypto exchange Coinbase has confirmed that it was briefly compromised by the same attackers that targeted Twilio, Cloudflare, DoorDash, and more than a hundred other organizations last year.
In a post-mortem of the incident published over the weekend, Coinbase said that the so-called ‘0ktapus’ hackers stole the login credentials of...
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed that it’s investigating malicious cyber activity on its own network.
CNN reported on Friday that hackers compromised an FBI computer system at the agency’s New York field office, citing people briefed with the matter. The brief report added that the incident...
It's not just the responsibility of the employees to keep your startup's data safe
“As we all know, humans are often the weakest part of the security chain.”
Those are the words of Reddit CTO Christopher Slowe, who was quick to play the blame game in a post announcing that...
Reddit has confirmed hackers accessed internal documents and source code following a “highly-targeted” phishing attack.
A post by Reddit CTO Christopher Slowe, or KeyserSosa, explained that the company became aware of the “sophisticated” attack targeting Reddit employees on February 5. He says that an as-yet-unidentified attacker sent “plausible-sounding prompts” that redirected...
In a first-of-its-kind coordinated action, authorities in the United States and the United Kingdom have sanctioned seven individuals allegedly behind the infamous Russia-based cybercrime gang Trickbot.
The action, which marks the first time that British officials have issued sanctions against suspected ransomware operators, saw the U.S. Treasury and the U.K....
