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Lacework released its cloud threat report, unveiling the new techniques and avenues cybercriminals are infiltrating to profit from businesses. The rapid shift of applications and infrastructure to the cloud creates gaps in the security posture of organizations everywhere.
"Shah's first advice is that:"A negotiator should never reveal that they are a 'trained negotiator'. Shah sees his role as a conduit for the business to talk to the attackers, rather than a middleman, which means first he has to establish that the Storm team doesn't get involved with working out who was at fault.
The names and home addresses of 111,000 British firearm owners have been dumped online as a Google Earth-compatible. Dumped online last week onto an animal rights activist's blog, the reformatted Guntrader breach data was explicitly advertised as being importable into Google Earth so randomers could "Contact as many [owners] as you can in your area and ask them if they are involved in shooting animals."
A bungled data migration of a network drive caused the deletion of 22 terabytes of information from a US police force's systems - including case files in a murder trial, according to local reports. Dallas Police Department confessed to the information blunder last week, revealing in a statement that a data migration exercise carried out at the end of the 2020-21 financial year deleted vast amounts of data from a network drive.
"Whether it's taking advantage of the buzz around cryptocurrency, stealing credentials to start a ransomware attack, or tailoring attacks to less suspicious targets in low profile roles, cybercriminals are constantly adapting their tactics and making their attacks more sophisticated," per the report. Among social engineering attacks analyzed by Barracuda researchers, phishing represented 49%, followed by scamming, BEC and extortion.
The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore today released data revealing that cybercrime accounted for 43 per cent of all crime in the city-state during 2020. Ransomware attacks rose 154 per cent from 35 cases in 2019 to 89 in 2020, shifting from what CSA called "Indiscriminate, opportunistic attacks" to "Big Game Hunting".
Ukrainian law enforcement officials on Wednesday announced the arrest of the Clop ransomware gang, adding it disrupted the infrastructure employed in attacks targeting victims worldwide since at least 2019. The ransomware attacks amount to $500 million in monetary damages, the National Police said, noting that "Law enforcement has managed to shut down the infrastructure from which the virus spreads and block channels for legalizing criminally acquired cryptocurrencies."
Scammers are sending fake replacement devices to Ledger customers exposed in a recent data breach that are used to steal cryptocurrency wallets. In a post on Reddit, a Ledger user shared a devious scam after receiving what looks like a Ledger Nano X device in the mail.
Scammers are sending fake replacement devices to Ledger customers exposed in a recent data breach that are used to steal cryptocurrency wallets. In a post on Reddit, a Ledger user shared a devious scam after receiving what looks like a Ledger Nano X device in the mail.
Cyber criminals looking for a quick payout and valuables are targeting digital artists using NFTs, warns security researcher Bart Blaze. The various tricks criminals use for targeting digital artists.