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Why hackers are going after physical infrastructure CNN 1 hr ago By Rishi Iyengar and Clare Duffy, CNN Business © Samuel Corum/Bloomberg/Getty Images Fuel storage tanks connected to the Colonial Pipeline Co. system in an industrial area of the Port of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Fuel shortages are expanding across several U.S. states in the East Coast and South as filling stations run dry amid the unprecedented pipeline disruption cause...

Bloomberg via Getty Images The last few months have seen a sharp rise in cyberattacks, often disrupting products and services that are key to our everyday lives. Many of those attacks have used ransomware, a set of tools that lets hackers gain access to computer systems and disrupt or lock them until they get paid. Ransomware is not new. But there is a growing trend of hackers targeting critical infrastructure and physical business operations, which makes the attacks more lucrative for bad acto...

The Grift and Cybercrime Blight on the Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Share Illustration: Elena Scotti (Photos: Shutterstock, PixelSquid, Getty Images) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Last August, U.S. federal agents searched the Redmond, Washington, laboratory of Johnny Stine, a bootl...

Steve Norris / Getty At the recent SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit, two CrowdStrike cybersecurity leads, Senior Security Researcher Sergei Frankoff and Senior Intelligence Analyst Eric Loui, offered details on an emerging major ransomware actor they call Sprite Spider. Like many other ransomware attackers, the gang behind Sprite Spider’s attacks has grown rapidly in sophistication and damage capacity since 2015. (CrowdStrikes research was echoed in a lengthy report from...