Mandiant: 1 in 7 Ransomware Extortion Attacks Exposes OT Data
Ransomware gangs often up their game by extorting their victims on so-called shaming sites, where they dump the stolen information to pressure the victims to pony up and pay...
Crypto miners are taking over the internet
The drive to cash in on the cryptocurrency boom is nowhere to be seen – as innocent internet browsers’ machines are co-opted into mining for bitcoin and other crypto-assets...
Cybercriminals push to recruit insiders for ransomware attacks
More than half of large North American IT companies say threat actors asked their employees to help in a ransomware attack. Most companies eventually became victims.A recent survey by...
Picasso heirs turn his unseen work into an NFT
NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and traditional art might seem like two worlds never meant to meet. But more and more creatives are branching out of the established belief, such as...
Alpha-Omega Project takes a human-centered approach to open-source software security
The Log4j vulnerability crisis that erupted in late-2021 heightened the security world’s awareness of supply chain risks in free and universally deployed open-source software. Following an intense holiday season...
Binance user protection insurance fund reaches $1B valuation
Binance, the world’s leading crypto exchange by trading volume, announced its Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) reached a $1 billion valuation.The user protection insurance fund was set up...
$2.5B in stolen BTC from Bitfinex hack awakens
A chunk of the inactive Bitcoins (BTC) stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack has moved from the hacker’s wallets to an unknown wallet on Tuesday, as detected by...
