OpenSubtitles Hack Shows Why Paying Ransom Offers No Guarantees
Popular subtitles website OpenSubtitles on Tuesday admitted that its systems had been hacked after the details of nearly seven million user accounts were leaked, despite the site allegedly paying a ransom to avoid this situation.
Cybersecurity solutions provider Kaspersky this week announced the launch of a new service to help organizations take action against malicious websites.
With the new Takedown Service, organizations essentially delegate Kaspersky to manage the process of eliminating phishing and other malicious domains that may target their brands.
The FBI and other federal agencies are increasingly looking to counter cyber threats through tools other than criminal indictments, the head of the bureau’s cyber division said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Thousands of industrial organizations worldwide have been hit in campaigns that leverage short-lived malware to harvest corporate credentials that are then sold by threat actors for a profit, according to Kaspersky.
BlackBerry’s security researchers have closely analyzed the Prometheus TDS (Traffic Direction System) and discovered a correlation with a leaked Cobalt Strike SSL key pair, as well as with various malware families.
Chronicle’s VirusTotal (VT) is a boon to security researchers and a gift to potential criminals. Apart from virus samples it contains likely millions of user credentials readily available to anyone who knows where and how to look.
The sudden move by Russia’s top law enforcement agency to conduct a very public takedown of the REvil ransomware operation has set tongues wagging about how diplomacy may hold the key to slowing big-game ransomware attacks.
Europol on Tuesday announced the shutdown of VPNLab, a VPN service that had often been used by cybercriminals.
VPNLab has been shut down after law enforcement authorities seized 15 servers across 10 countries. Police in Germany, the Czech Republic, France, Latvia, Hungary, Ukraine, the UK, the US, and Canada took part in the operation.
NATO on Monday inked a deal to bolster its cyber support for Ukraine, after a sweeping hacking attack against Kyiv heightened tensions amid fears that Russia could be plotting an invasion.
Healthcare providers Caring Communities and Entira Family Clinics are warning patients that their personal information may have been exposed in a data breach that hit tech vendor Netgain Technology more than a year ago.
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