Also: Twitter hijackings, BEC arrest, and critical vulnerabilities Infosec in brief We gather everyone’s still easing themselves into the New Year. Deleting screens of unread emails, putting on a brave face in meetings, and slowly getting up to speed. While…
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Ransomware payment ban: Wrong idea at the wrong time
Won’t stop the chaos, may lead to attacks with more dire consequences Opinion A general ban on ransomware payments, as was floated by some this week, sounds like a good idea. Eliminate extortion as a source of criminal income, and…
After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients
Remember the good old days when ransomware crooks vowed not to infect medical centers? Extortionists are now threatening to swat hospital patients — calling in bomb threats or other bogus reports to the police so heavily armed cops show up…
After crippling cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients
Remember the good old days when ransomware crooks vowed not to infect medical centers? Extortionists are now threatening to swat hospital patients — calling in bomb threats or other bogus reports to the police so heavily armed cops show up…
BreachForums boss busted for bond blunders – including using a VPN
Fitzpatrick faces potentially decades in prison later this month, so may as well get some foreign Netflix in beforehand The cybercriminal behind BreachForums was this week arrested for violating the terms of his pretrial release and will now be held…
Sandworm’s Kyivstar attack should serve as a reminder of the Kremlin crew’s ‘global reach’
‘Almost everything’ wiped in the telecom attack, says Ukraine’s top cyber spy Russia’s Sandworm crew appear to have been responsible for knocking out mobile and internet services to about 24 million users in Ukraine last month with an attack on…
X-ploited: Mandiant restores hijacked Twitter account after attempted crypto heist
Miscreants mock Google-owned security house: ‘Change password please’ Miscreants took over security giant Mandiant’s Twitter account for several hours on Wednesday in an attempt to steal cryptocurrency, then trolled the Google-owned security shop, telling its admins to change the password.……
X marks the spot: Mandiant restores hijacked Twitter account after attempted crypto heist
Miscreants mock Google-owned security house: ‘Change password please’ Miscreants took over security giant Mandiant’s Twitter account for several hours on Wednesday in an attempt to steal cryptocurrency, then trolled the Google-owned security shop, telling its admins to change the password.……
Infosec experts divided over 23andMe’s ‘victim-blaming’ stance on data breach
Users apparently at fault after reusing credentials the company didn’t check were already compromised 23andMe users’ godawful password practices were supposedly to blame for the biotech company’s October data disaster, according to its legal reps.… This article has been indexed…
Infostealer malware, weak password leaves Orange Spain RIPE for plucking
No 2FA or special characters to prevent database takeover and BGP hijack A weak password exposed by infostealer malware is being blamed after a massive outage at Orange Spain disrupted around half of its network’s traffic.… This article has been…
As lawmakers mull outlawing poor security, what can they really do to tackle online gangs?
Headline-grabbing takedowns are nice, but long-term solutions require short-term sacrifices Comment In some ways, the ransomware landscape in 2023 remained unchanged from the way it looked in previous years. Vendor reports continue to show a rise in attacks, major organizations…
Three Chinese balloons float near Taiwanese airbase
Also: Remember that balloon over the US last February? It might have used a US internet provider Four Chinese balloons have reportedly floated over the Taiwan Strait, three of them crossing over the island’s land mass and near its Ching-Chuan-Kang…
Microsoft kills off Windows app installation from the web, again
Unpleasant Christmas package lets malware down the chimney Microsoft has disabled a protocol that allowed the installation of Windows apps after finding that miscreants were abusing the mechanism to install malware.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Freight giant Estes refuses to deliver ransom, says personal data opened and stolen
Pay up, or just decline to submit One of America’s biggest private freight shippers, Estes Express Lines, has told more than 20,000 customers that criminals stole their personal information.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read…
Atos confirms talks with Airbus over cybersecurity wing sale
IT service company’s latest move to clear its maturing debts French IT services provider Atos has entered talks with Airbus to sell its tech security division in an effort to ease its financial burdens.… This article has been indexed from…
Copy that? Xerox confirms ‘security incident’ at subsidiary
Company’s removal from ransomware gang’s leak blog could mean negotiations underway Xerox has officially confirmed that a cyber baddie broke into the systems of its US subsidiary – a week after INC Ransom claimed to have exfiltrated data from the…
Formal ban on ransomware payments? Asking orgs nicely to not cough up ain’t working
With the average demand hitting $1.5 million, something’s gotta change Emsisoft has called for a complete ban on ransom payments following another record-breaking year of digital extortion.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original…
Google password resets not enough to stop these info-stealing malware strains
Now every miscreant is jumping on Big G’s OAuth account security hole Security researchers say info-stealing malware can still access victims’ compromised Google accounts even after passwords have been changed.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
Court hearings become ransomware concern after justice system breach
From legal proceedings to potential YouTube fodder The court system of Victoria, Australia, was subject to a suspected ransomware attack in which audiovisual recordings of court hearings may have been accessed.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
CEO arranged his own cybersecurity, with predictable results
Cleaning up after hackers is easy compared to surviving the politics of consultancy On Call It’s the last Friday of 2023, but because the need for tech support never goes away neither does On Call, The Register’s Friday column in…