Has the Conti Ransomware Gang finally stopped operating?

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Research and analysis is showing that the malicious websites run by the Conti Gang to support it’s ransomware operations are now closed: Conti ransomware finally shuts down data leak, negotiation sites (bleepingcomputer.com) However the threat actors have not gone away – ransomware makes too much money for them to simply …

Google Threat Assessment Group tackles smartphone malware

This is a follow-up to last week’s story: New commercial spyware for phones – Smart Thinking Solutions This is Google describing how they countered the Hermit smartphone malware and discusses their Project Zero for countering zero-day threats. Spyware vendor targets users in Italy and Kazakhstan (blog.google) Your best defence against …

Privacy assured by UK judge as ruling states law enforcement must use due process

In many of my posts about privacy and governments and organisations that want to reduce encryption, do away with VPN privacy or just make things easy for law enforcement at the expense of the law abiding citizen’s privacy, I refer to law enforcement using due process. UK judges agree with …