Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Dina Temple-Raston writing at The Record, shows how we have to treat hackers with “respect”. Not respect for what they do or how they do it, but respect so our response to them matches their determination to make money. Ransomware-as-a-service, or RaaS, is the franchise business model for cyber criminals, …
It appears hackers were detected inside the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) systems but it is stated that no classified or highly sensitive information was breached. Foreign Office target of ‘serious cyber incident’ – BBC News
Journalist’s accounts are among those compromised in an attack on News Corp. News Corp journalists’ accounts compromised, China suspected • The Register News Corp breached by suspected Chinese hackers – The Record by Recorded Future
Following the article in The Guardian that compared ransomware cyber criminals to legitimate businesses: Here is a ransomware gang giving an interview outlining it’s future “business” plans and goals – including discussing its “brand” as a way of making interactions with businesses and insurance companies easier! An ALPHV (BlackCat) representative …
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This is an interesting article on the financial impact of ransomware on businesses by Rob Davies and Dan Milmo of The Guardian. I think the way they illustrate that these criminal gangs have shaped their operations to outwardly function as legitimate businesses, including having well spoken help desks to aid …
