- LockBit Honcho Faces Sanctions, With Aussie Org Ramifications
Australian businesses and individuals now face government fines and consequences for paying ransoms or interacting with assets owned by LockBitSupp, aka Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.
- Chinese Hackers Deployed Backdoor Quintet to Down MITRE
MITRE’s hackers made use of at least five different Web shells and backdoors as part of their attack chain.
- Wiz Announces $1B Funding Round, Plans More M&A
Much of the funding will be used for product development and talent acquisition to cover more ground as the cybersecurity industry continues to evolve.
- Does CISA’s KEV Catalog Speed Up Remediation?
Vulnerabilities added to the CISA known exploited vulnerability (KEV) list do indeed get patched faster, but not fast enough.
- U.S. Charges Russian Man as Boss of LockBit Ransomware Group
The United States joined the United Kingdom and Australia today in sanctioning 31-year-old Russian national Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the alleged leader of the infamous ransomware group LockBit. The U.S. Department of Justice also indicted Khoroshev as the gang’s leader “LockbitSupp,” and charged him with using Lockbit to attack more than 2,000 victims and extort at least $100 million in ransomware payments.