Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Microsoft (and Google) take a very active role when it comes to countering malware, cyber attacks and scams. Notorious cybercrime gang’s botnet disrupted – Microsoft On the Issues Microsoft uses court order to disrupt ZLoader botnet – The Record by Recorded Future Microsoft details malware that hides its scheduled tasks …
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As you can see from the image above this was a worldwide effort, including the National Crime Agency and Europol, to close the doors on RaidForums, a resource that cyber criminals used to buy and sell stolen information. Unusually this site was on the internet – you and I could …
This story was first posted on 11 April 2022. A simple story – Google is taking a bad actor to court that has been using their systems to run their scams. Hounding scammers with litigation (blog.google) UPDATE Here are some details of the scam. Google sues alleged scam site operator …
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Last month we covered the $625m theft from Ronin, using a web3/smart contract, exploit against the decentralised finance service (DeFi). Now the company (and it’s clients) have been bailed out by cash investment by cryptocurrency giant Binance. Ronin Network bailed out by crypto giant Binance after hack – BBC News
This post was originally made on 30 March 2022 web3 (with a lowercase “w” of course) and its use of blockchain for better cybersecurity seems like a good idea. However here is another “profitable” cyber-attack on the technology – exploiting the processes to get into the secure systems. Ethereum sidechain …
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