The White House has written to business leaders, urging them to prioritize having robust ransomware defenses in place. The move comes as the Biden administration pursues multiple strategies to combat ransomware and digital extortion, including ordering a new task force to coordinate all federal investigations.
Scripps Health this week began notifying more than 147,000 individuals that their financial and health information was contained in documents stolen by attackers who deployed ransomware on the healthcare organization's network in May.
Internet of things security professionals are expressing concern over Amazon's new Sidewalk - a low-bandwidth network program that will allow some of the company's connected and IoT devices to share Wi-Fi access even outside an owner's home.
In a decision that will have major implications for the cybersecurity industry, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday to limit the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Security researchers and civil liberty groups argued that the 1986 law was too broadly written and outdated for today.
Japanese conglomerate Fujifilm has shut down part of its network after it was compromised in a suspected ransomware attack, the company said in an update on Wednesday. The attack is the latest in a series of ransomware incidents targeting multinational companies.
Today's adversaries are approaching identity differently, and so defenders need to step up their game, too. SecurID's Murtaza Hafizji opens up on the future of secure identity, including the roles for passwordless authentication and zero trust security.
The FBI has attributed the ransomware attack against meat processing giant JBS to the REvil - aka Sodinokibi - ransomware-as-a-service operation. Security experts say the operation, which dates from 2019, appears to be run from Russia, and has been hitting increasingly large targets.
FireEye announced on Wednesday the sale of its product line and name to Symphony Technology Group, a private equity group based in Palo Alto, California, for $1.2 billion. The deal means FireEye will be separated from Mandiant Solutions, its forensics unit that's often called upon after a data breach.
Three new ransomware groups - Prometheus, Grief and an unidentified group using Payload.bin - have separately threatened to release or have already put on sale stolen data from government and private entities.
XDR - cross-layered detection and response - should be implemented exclusively in the cloud or on premises, says Jason Cavallaro, national IT manager at CJD Equipment, a distributor of construction equipment in Australia.
After the ransomware attack against meat-processing giant JBS, the White House says it has contacted Russia, putting it on notice that "responsible states do not harbor ransomware criminals." Experts say that despite the chaos caused by the Colonial Pipeline hit, the pace of ransomware attacks hasn't slowed.
Hackers are exploiting a critical zero-day flaw in the WordPress plug-in Fancy Product Designer, which allows remote code execution, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team at Defiant Inc. says. Because a patch has not yet been released, the team urges users to immediately uninstall the vulnerable plug-in.
Vulnerabilities in some antivirus software could have enabled attackers to install malware and deactivate anti-ransomware protection to take over software controls, academic researchers say.
The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it has seized two domains that were used during a recent phishing campaign that targeted a marketing firm used by the U.S. Agency for International Development - USAID - to send malicious messages to thousands of potential victims.
Retrieving data from a mobile device is complicated technically and legally. How does one navigate the shoals of legal precedent and privacy law? Brian Feucht of Unique Wire discusses the state of the art of digital forensics.
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