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Get Permission A post to RaidForums offers to share the identities of a ransomware-as-a-service operations leadership - for a price. Maze was one of the most notorious and successful ransomware operations of recent years until its "retirement" last November. The group pioneered the data-leaking model that involves first stealing victims data, then using the threat of leaking it to try to force victims to pay. The strategy worked, helping fuel a boom in ransomware profits and leading numerous o...

The report analyzed how Bitcoin funds were transferred from victims to criminal groups, and how the money was divided among different parties involved in the ransomware attack, and how it was eventually laundered. But to understand these dynamics, a short intro into the current ransomware scene is needed. Today, the ransomware landscape is very similar to how modern businesses operate. There are coders who create and rent the actual ransomware strain via services called RaaS -- or Ransomware-as...

Image: ZDNet The cybercrime group behind the FonixCrypter ransomware has announced today on Twitter that theyve deleted the ransomwares source code and plan to shut down their operation. As a gesture of goodwill towards past victims, the FonixCrypter gang has also released a package containing a decryption tool, how-to instructions, and the ransomwares master decryption key. These files can be used by former infected users to decrypt and rec...

SolarWinds Attackers Focused on Cyber and Tech Firms Whether it was opportunity, strategy or sheer chutzpah, the suspected Russian hackers behind a massive cyber-attack revealed last month focused particular attention on technology companies, including cyber-security firms entrusted to find malicious activity in their clients’ networks. Four cyber-security companies announced this week that they had been targeted as part of the attack, adding to a list of at least eight other tech companies t...

As cyber-attacks increase in complexity, frequency, and velocity, in our experience, many enterprise organizations are reliant on outdated IT governance. The organizational paradigm is limited by slow-moving bureaucracy and scarce resources. This situation is often the result of a limited understanding of the risks on the part of decision-makers, like board executives who rely on outdated corporate governance frameworks that were developed in response to accounting scandals - e.g., WorldCom, En...

As cyber-attacks increase in complexity, frequency, and velocity, in our experience, many enterprise organizations are reliant on outdated IT governance. The organizational paradigm is limited by slow-moving bureaucracy and scarce resources. This situation is often the result of a limited understanding of the risks on the part of decision-makers, like board executives who rely on outdated corporate governance frameworks that were developed in response to accounting scandals - e.g., WorldCom, En...

SolarWinds Attackers Hit Strategic Targets: Cyber and Tech Firms Four cybersecurity companies announced this week that they had been targeted as part of the attack, adding to a list of at least eight other tech firms. Bloomberg | Jan 29, 2021 Kartikay Mehrotra and Alyza Sebenius (Bloomberg) -- Whether it was opportunity, strategy or sheer chutzpah, the suspected Russian hackers behind a massive cyber-attack revealed last month focused particular attention on technology companies, includi...

BBC News Published Police have seized thousands of computers running one of the most dangerous hacking networks worldwide. The Emotet network obtains access to victims computers, via malicious email attachments, then sells it to criminals who install more dangerous malware. Police from the UK, EU, US and Canada worked together to "disrupt" Emotet. Europol called it "one of most significant botnets of the past decade" and one of the main "door openers" for computer systems worldwide. "Once this ...

Hunt Scanlon Names The Bowdoin Group to 2020 Cyber Technology Top 40 Search Firm Rankings Share Article Greater Boston-based executive firm named to global staffing intelligence firms annual ranking for cyber technology search firms Its an honor to be recognized as a search leader in the cyber technology space. WALTHAM, Mass. (PRWEB) January 26, 2021 The Bowdoin Group, an executive search firm with deep expertise in leadership sea...

Recorded Future Caps 2020 with 50% ARR Growth Company Solidifies its Position as the De Facto Platform for Security Intelligence News provided by Share this article Share this article BOSTON, Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Recorded Future, the worlds largest provider of intelligence for enterprise security, today announced outstanding, continued growth in 2020, fueled by the critical need for intelligence to strengthen the security posture of organizations. Despite challenging economic circumsta...