BlackMatter ransomware gang rose to prominence in the criminal underworld this summer after competitors such as DarkSide and REvil fell by the wayside. The upstart group now appears to have suffered the same fate.
CISA directs federal agencies to adhere to the vulnerability management catalog and patch 300 exploited vulnerabilities assigned CVE IDs in 2021 within 2 weeks and 6 months for previous ones.
Recent creative crypto scams illustrate some specific things that investors need to be prepared for. A scam involving Squid Game demonstrates how FOMO can catch investors, and a Google Ads scheme used phishing techniques to steal wallets.
Suspects affiliated with a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platform used in LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Dharma ransomware attacks were detained in Ukraine and Switzerland.
More and more people—on all sides of the education process—recognize that smartphones aren’t only a distraction for students. In addition to that, they have unlimited potential in helping them study.
There are valid reasons to have serious privacy concerns about Facebook’s new direction. The announcement of the Facebook metaverse has thus far been met with at least as much suspicion and hesitancy as it has enthusiasm.
Ransomware gangs search for non-public financial information that could affect stock prices during mergers and acquisitions and threaten to publish it to coerce the victim to pay.
A new report indicates that ransomware costs are being cut considerably due to better preparedness. And though cyber insurance claims spiked in early 2021 due to the Microsoft Exchange vulnerability, they have been on a steep downward trend since.
Robinhood, the most popular app-based trading platform for non-professional investors, has confirmed that it suffered a data breach due to a social engineering attack last week that potentially compromised millions of accounts.”
After its infrastructure went offline in October, there was widespread speculation that the REvil ransomware group was done for good. The likelihood of that increased with last week's apprehension of affiliates along with the seizure of $6.1 million.
