Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This time the US Department of Justice has returned about half a million dollars worth of Bitcoin to two hospital groups who had paid ransomware ransoms to North Korean threat actors. US seizes stolen funds from suspected North Korean hackers – BBC News However it is better to have not …
Here is a story featuring another Google product – that makes a huge profit for Google – that is being used and abused by threat actors against legitimate users: Convincing ‘YouTube’ Google ads lead to Windows support scams (bleepingcomputer.com) If you just make the YouTube videos look as though they …
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Neopets didn’t and leaked the details of 69 million users, That is a lot of personal information to lose control of! Neopets data breach exposes personal data of 69 million members (bleepingcomputer.com) Their source code and other data was also stolen. A hacker calling themselves ‘TarTarX’ is selling the source …
The model of ransomware attacks has definitely moved for a backroom hackers sending malware out, to a corporation style operation, complete with updates, support and marketing of the illicit tools. Small opportunist threat actors remain, and always will, hackers have to start somewhere, as is shown by this article at …
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At the moment the perpetrators of these attacks are unknown, but they are targeting Macs, with malware that allows backdoor access to the devices Once in the malware, bypasses various MacOS defences and is then able to exfiltrate a range of data from the machines, including keystrokes, emails, documents, files, …
