Many nation-state-backed attacks are intended to destabilize the US government, not steal from it. We’re hearing more and more about cyber-espionage activity launched by nation-states, but this doesn’t necessarily mean these cyberattacks, hacks, and disinformation campaigns are happening more often. Cyber-enabled operations by criminals, nation-states, and curious dilettantes have been constants that are increasingly reported, examined, and weaponized. Furthermore, reports…
Contrary to ‘popular opinion,’ in which most of the security community feels that companies should never ever pay a ransomware ransom, my perspective on ransomware is that sometimes it is the only option and companies should pay up. Ransomware attacks exponentially increased throughout 2020, largely because of a rise in cybercrime due to the global pandemic. Ransomware operators have been…
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Those behind the widespread intrusion into government and corporate networks exploited seams in U.S. defenses and gave away nothing to American monitoring of their systems. Read More…
The broad Russian espionage attack on the U.S. government and private companies, underway since spring and detected only a few weeks ago, is among the greatest intelligence failures of modern times. Read More…
Multiple security professionals said stolen credentials on Exploit.in were part of a tidal wave of business email compromise attacks. Read More.
The rapid and recent rise of cyber threat actor group Indonesian Cyber Jawa represents a pivot within the Indonesian cyber underground towards a more sophisticated attack toolkit from a relatively underrepresented underground criminal faction. The group is concentrating its defacement efforts on online retailers while simultaneously attempting to defraud targets in the same business vertical.
As data exfiltration threats and bigger ransom requests become the norm, security professionals are advancing from the basic “keep good backups” advice.Read More
Our Director of Intelligence, Adam Darrah, in a frank discussion with Chuck Harold from SecurityGuyTV.com at the Corona-Con Virtual Security Conference about election security. Watch Now