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Coalition unveils plan to help government, industry confront ransomware attacks Maggie Miller © iStockphoto Coalition unveils plan to help government, industry confront ransomware attacks A coalition of experts on Thursday unveiled a road map for the federal government and industry to potentially use in combating ransomware attacks, which have spiked over the past year as hackers targeted organizations including hospitals and schools. The report, created by the Institute for Security and Technology's Ransomware Task Force, describes ransomware attacks as an "urgent nationa...

Get Permission A coalition of government agencies and security firms has released a framework for how to disrupt ransomware attacks that calls for expanded regulation of the global cryptocurrency market to better track the virtual coins paid to cybercriminals during extortion schemes. On Thursday, the Institute for Security and Technology's Ransomware Task Force published the framework, which features 48 proposals. It calls for a coordinated, international diplomatic and law enforcement effort to combat these cyberthreats - for example, by discouraging nation-states from harboring cybercrim...

Copy The Institute for Security and Technology's Ransomware Task Force (RTF) on Thursday published an 81-page report presenting policy makers with 48 recommendations to disrupt the ransomware business and mitigate the effect of such attacks. The RTF, formed last December and populated by representatives from companies like Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and Rapid7, and government organizations like the FBI and US Secret Service, has nothing to do with the RDETF, or Ransomware and Digital Extortion Task Force, assembled last week under the auspices of the Justice Department. However, the RTF a...

Plus: America creates task force to tackle ransomware crims Share Copy In Brief The Homebrew package manager for macOS and Linux has fixed an issue that could have been exploited by miscreants to run malicious code on people's computers. Specifically, the project's GitHub Actions setup could have been abused to sneak arbitrary Ruby code into its Cask repositories, security researcher RyotaK discovered and disclosed via HackerOne. The infosec bod found it was possible to merge a "malicious pull request by confusing the library that is used in the automated pull request review script de...

DOJ Launches Task Force to Battle Ransomware Threat Twitter Get Permission The Justice Department is creating a task force to tackle the growing threat of ransomware and related extortion schemes targeting school districts, hospitals and others, according to an internal department memo that began circulating this week. The newly established Ransomware and Digital Extortion Task Force will include DOJ officials as well as representatives from the FBI and the Executive Office for United States Attorneys. The task force will target the "ransomware criminal ecosystem as a whole," which means pr...