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Ransomware Cartels Using New Tactics to Extort Money San Francisco, California, 9 June 2021 – Gangs of cyber criminals, organising themselves along the lines of drug cartels, are changing the ‘rules’ of ransomware attacks to keep ahead of the authorities’ efforts to thwart their activities. That’s the conclusion of a new report by leading cyber analytics expert CyberCube.  According to CyberCube’s report,  , cyber criminals are organising themselves into cartels involving their peers in the criminal underground. These cartels, formed to execute attack campaigns collaborativel...

* Wallets allow users to send, receive, and spend cryptocurrency. This row indicates the # of wallets that have interacted with an NFT Smart Contract, including buyers, sellers, and anyone who has played a game or interacted with a project using NFTs And that trend has continued during 2021. Indeed, one report shows that NFT sales in the first quarter of 2021 grew to more than $2 billion, over twenty times the volume of the previous quarter. 9 On one major marketplace, NFT sales grew from $8 million in January 2021, to $95 million in February, to almost $150 million in March. 10 While sales ...

SOAR: Meaning and definition SOAR is the name for a relatively new kind of security platform that coordinates information produced by a wide range of security tools and automate much of their analysis and protective responses. SOAR, which stands for security orchestration, automation, and response, is a term coined by Gartner in 2015 and since embraced by the industry as companies grapple with increasing security threats, a tight labor market, and an increasing flood of information they need to parse about the state of the systems and networks they're trying to protect. Ideally, SOAR platfor...

Security News In Review: PyInstaller, Cloud Frameworks, and Scripps (Oh My) Community Chats Webinars Library Security News In Review: PyInstaller, Cloud Frameworks, and Scripps (Oh My) — This new framework has backing from IBM, Microsoft, and Google. It’s called the Cloud Security Notification Framework (CSNF), and it’s trying to create a new open and standard way of delivering information. This is important because the old way is cumbersome and tedious. Currently, each of the big cloud platforms has its own methodology for passing on security information to logging and secur...

10 March 2021, 9:10 am EST By Scams are almost everywhere, especially in the cyberworld. Phishing emails are already common, yet there is another type of scam that is discovered in emails that are disguised as a photo copyright takedown request that is written in the eyes of an 'annoyed' photographer. This serves as a warning, as once you fall for this trap, your computer might be at risk through malware that may harm your files, documents, and other important information stored on your device. The Scam in the Form of Makeshift Copyright Infringement Request (Photo : Sora Shimazaki from Pexe...