Ransomware Task Force priorities see progress in first year
The Ransomware Task Force's five priority recommendations, issued last year, have all seen encouraging progress from governments.
This blog is part of our live coverage from RSA Conference 2022:
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U.S. cybersecurity officials issue notice on Karakurt extortion group
Written by AJ Vicens Jun 2, 2022 |...
Ransomware attack turns 2022 into 1977 for Somerset County
Somerset County in New Jersey has been sent back to 1977 after a ransomware attack shut down various historical record checks.
1977 was quite the year. Led Zeppelin! Jimmy...
FBI asks for more than $100M in cyber and data-related increases for 2023
Written by AJ Vicens May 25, 2022 |...
Eerie GoodWill ransomware forces victims to publish videos of good deeds on social media
GoodWill ransomware has victims do something other than pay a ransom to recover their files.
Ransomware does what the name implies: holds your files or network to ransom. Pay...
Chicago students lose data to ransomware attackers
A recent breach notification has revealed some 490,000+ students were impacted by a ransomware attack last December.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) disclosed on Friday that students may have had...
A year after report, task force urges U.S. to keep ransomware on front burner
Written by Tonya Riley May 20, 2022 |...
Commodified Cybercrime Infrastructure
Cybercriminal takeover
The server takeover is the earliest stage, where exposed assets are enumerated (i.e., via network scanners), accessed, and categorized by features (e.g., availability, bandwidth, and type of GPU)...
DOJ revises computer fraud prosecution standards to ease off ‘good-faith’ research
Written by AJ Vicens May 19, 2022 |...
Cardiologist moonlighted as successful ransomware developer
Moises Luis Zagala, cardiologist by day, ransomware developer by night, has been charged by the US government for computer crimes.
The US has charged a 55-year-old French-Venezuelan cardiologist from...
