This year was rife with ransomware. 2021 witnessed the attack on IT software company Kaseya that knocked 1,500 organizations offline, the CD Projekt Red hack that saw threat actors make […]
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Back to news home6 things in cybersecurity we didn’t know last year
The past 12 months in cybersecurity have been a rough ride. In cybersecurity, everything is broken — it’s just a matter of finding it — and this year felt like […]
Google disrupts Russian botnet that infected 1 million Windows machines
Google is suing two Russian individuals it claims are behind a sophisticated botnet operation that has silently infiltrated more than 1 million Windows machines worldwide. In a complaint filed in […]
Panasonic confirms data breach after hackers access internal network
Japanese tech giant Panasonic has confirmed a data breach after hackers gained access to its internal network. Panasonic said in a press release dated November 26 that its network was […]
US says Iran-backed hackers are now targeting organizations with ransomware
The U.S. government, along with counterparts in Australia and the U.K, have warned that Iranian state-backed hackers are targeting U.S. organizations in critical infrastructure sectors — in some cases with […]
US government offers $10M bounty for DarkSide ransomware hackers
The U.S. Department of State is upping the ante in its fight against ransomware by offering a reward of up to $10 million for information that helps identify or track […]
Bridging the gap: What CISOs must do to get the C-suite on their side
Sean McDermott Contributor Sean McDermott is the founder and CEO of RedMonocle, a SaaS-based risk intelligence software designed to help cybersecurity leaders find, fund and fix their blind spots. Every […]
FIN7 hackers set up a fake company to recruit for cyberattacks
FIN7, a financially motivated Russian hacking group, has set up a fake company to lure unwitting IT specialists into supporting its continued expansion into ransomware, security researchers have found. According […]
CISA, NSA, FBI say BlackMatter ransomware group is targeting the US food industry
A joint advisory issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National Security Agency (NSA) has warned that the BlackMatter ransomware […]
REvil ransomware group goes dark after its Tor sites were hijacked
REvil, the notorious Russian-linked ransomware gang responsible for the high-profile cyberattacks on Kaseya, Travelex, and JBS earlier this year, has disappeared again after its Tor payment portal and data leak […]