Report estimates that the cybersecurity workforce is still facing a shortfall in spite of a general improvement in 2020. Global growth would need to be at 89% to make up for it.
A Europol-headed law enforcement operation has put a serious dent in the dropper malware ecosystem, disrupting the botnets that these dropper systems rely on to function, with over 100 servers and 2,000 domains impacted across about a dozen countries.
International law enforcement has taken down illicit proxy service RSOCKS, a Russian botnet that has been active since at least 2014 and compromised millions of devices.
International law enforcement operation appears to have significantly disrupted the capabilities of the LockBit ransomware group, one of the biggest internet-based criminal hacking organizations in the world, seizing about 200 of the group's crypto wallets and over 1,000 decryption keys.
The Internet Archive has been under heavy attack in the past week, suffering both a major data breach and a series of potent DDoS attacks that have taken it offline.
This vision of the future of the internet is manifesting in democratic nations as well in the form of laws that hold intermediaries liable for the packets they transfer among other measures.
ESS, largest voting systems company in U.S with at least 260,000 machines in 21 states, was found to have 35 election systems in 10 states connected to the internet when they were not supposed to be.
INTERPOL’s arrested nearly 1,000 cybercriminals, recovered $130 million from 2,800 accounts linked to proceeds of crime, and closed 1,600 cases in Operation HAECHI III.
An INTERPOL-led global law enforcement operation has taken action against 1,300 ransomware, phishing, and malware command-and-control (C2) servers and the arrest of dozens of suspects.
INTERPOL’s Global Rapid Intervention of Payments system recovered an exceptionally large sum of over $40 million, stolen in a single BEC attack, in record time.
