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The victim will need to pay in that 20% themselves - indeed, they'd jolly well better pay in quickly, the scammers claim, given that the "Authorities" are now involved and looking for their share. Once you realise you've been scammed, whether the scammers pull the plug on you, or you pull the plug on them, you may "Co-incidentally" be contacted by someone who sympathises with your plight, and who knows just the thing for you to try next.
"Broadly speaking, digital sovereignty means having control of your digital destiny," explains Tim Phipps, director of cloud alliances at French technology group Thales. Data is what many people think of first when they hear the term digital sovereignty.
Ransomware vs. Multi-Cloud: How to Protect Multi-Cloud Environments From the Next AttackThough the scale and economics of the cloud are a boon for today's enterprise, moving applications and data out of the data center into multi-cloud environments has greatly expanded threat surfaces, putting enterprises at greater risk of devastating ransomware attacks. This report will explore how to move beyond segmentation inside the data center and traditional next-gen firewalls at the perimeter and build a defense that meets the special demands of a multi-cloud environment.
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"It's a huge threat because it bypasses the security measures put in place by an organization, including one of the most effective, which is MFA," Sami Elhini, biometrics specialist at Cerberus Sentinel, told The Register. The attacks on MFA come as businesses, with the COVID-19 pandemic lifting, are adopting cloud-first and zero-trust models, which often rely on MFA to protect data and applications, Stephanie Aceves, senior director of products management at Tanium, told The Register.
A Russian-speaking ransomware group dubbed OldGremlin has been attributed to 16 malicious campaigns aimed at entities operating in the transcontinental Eurasian nation over the course of two and a half years. In what's a rarity in the ransomware landscape, OldGremlin is one of the very few financially motivated cybercrime gangs that primarily focuses on Russian companies.
A new ransomware operation named Royal is quickly ramping up, targeting corporations with ransom demands ranging from $250,000 to over $2 million. Royal, aka Royal Zeon, is a relatively new operation that launched in June 2022 and consists of a group of vetted and experienced ransomware actors from previous operations.
Chaos, new multipurpose malware written in the Go programming language, is spreading across the world. The prevalence of malware written in Go has increased dramatically in recent years due to the language's flexibility, low antivirus detection rates and difficulty to reverse-engineer, Black Lotus Labs analysts noted.
A massive operation that has reportedly siphoned millions of USD from credit cards since its launch in 2019 has been exposed and is considered responsible for losses for tens of thousands of victims. The site operators, thought to originate from Russia, operate an extensive network of bogus dating and customer support websites and use them to charge credit cards bought on the dark web.