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...
Ukrainian cybercriminal sentenced to 4 years in U.S. prison for credential theft scheme
Written by AJ Vicens May 12, 2022 |...
Texas man gets 5 years for stealing 38,000 PayPal account credentials
Written by Suzanne Smalley May 12, 2022 |...
College closes down after ransomware attack
Lincoln College is the first US college or university ransomware affected so badly that it could not cope and had to close shop.
Lincoln College, one of the few...
