Email Security & Protection , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Joint Hornetsecurity-Vade Will Have More Geographic Reach, Microsoft 365 Protection Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • March 5, 2024 Georges Lotigier, CEO, Vade (Image: Vade) Hornetsecurity purchased French email security vendor Vade to expand its geographic footprint and protection capabilities around […]
Email Security & Protection , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Joint Hornetsecurity-Vade Will Have More Geographic Reach, Microsoft 365 Protection Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • March 5, 2024 Georges Lotigier, CEO, Vade (Image: Vade) Hornetsecurity purchased French email security vendor Vade to expand its geographic footprint and protection capabilities around […]
The cybercrime group called GhostSec has been linked to a Golang variant of a ransomware family called GhostLocker. “TheGhostSec and Stormous ransomware groups are jointly conducting double extortion ransomware attacks on various business verticals in multiple countries,” Cisco Talos researcher Chetan Raghuprasad said in a report shared with The Hacker News. “GhostLocker and Stormous ransomware […]
3rd Party Risk Management , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime But Hospital Lobby Group Contends Funding Is ‘Onerous’ and ‘Exceedingly’ Limited Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • March 4, 2024 UnitedHealth Group is offering short-term financial assistance to some providers whose payments have been affected by the Change Healthcare IT outage. (Image: Getty) […]
Police seized Crimemarket, the largest German-speaking cybercrime marketplace Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2024 German police seized the largest German-speaking cybercrime marketplace Crimemarket and arrested one of its operators. The Düsseldorf Police announced that a large-scale international law enforcement operation led to the seizure of the largest German-speaking cybercrime marketplace. “Under the direction of the North Rhine-Westphalia […]
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Hackers Are Leveraging Israel-Hamas War to Carry Out Attacks, Researcher Tells ISMG Chris Riotta (@chrisriotta) • February 27, 2024 Mandiant found suspected Iranian hackers targeting Middle Eastern defense workers. (Image: Shutterstock) Cybersecurity researchers identified a suspected Iranian espionage […]
LockBitSupp, the individual(s) behind the persona representing the LockBit ransomware service on cybercrime forums such as Exploit and XSS, “has engaged with law enforcement,” authorities said. The development comes following the takedown of the prolific ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation as part of a coordinated international operation codenamed Cronos. Over 14,000 rogue accounts on third-party services like […]
Cybercrime , Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Qakbot Wouldn’t Be the First Trojan to Come Back After a Takedown Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • February 13, 2024 Security researchers are seeing new examples of Qakbot malware. (Image: Shutterstock) Takedowns aren’t always forever in cyberspace. Months after a U.S. law […]
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Malware as-a-Service 2 Men Arrested in Malta, Nigeria for Hawking Malware on Hacking Forums Since 2012 Cal Harrison • February 9, 2024 Image: Shutterstock Federal authorities have seized internet domains and arrested two men in Malta and Nigeria who they say served as sales and customer […]