The Week in Ransomware – March 25th 2022 – Critical infrastructure
With the US providing military aid to Ukraine and its sanctions damaging the Russian economy, the US government disclosed this…
Here’s How Fast Ransomware Encrypts Files
New analysis shows how long it takes for each of the top 10 ransomware families to encrypt 100,000 files.
A Closer Look at the LAPSUS$ Data Extortion Group
Microsoft and identity management platform Okta both disclosed this week breaches involving LAPSUS$, a relatively new cybercrime group that specializes…
Security Teams Need to Investigate the Okta Breach Themselves
Trust, but verify. While organizations wait for official alerts and notifications from Okta, security teams should also begin their own…
Binarly Coordinates Patches for 3 Firmware Flaws With Dell
The latest three memory corruption flaws in Dell BIOS highlights the challenges of fixing firmware vulnerabilities.
Law professor defends Biden SCOTUS pick, says child porn sentencing guidelines ‘unduly severe’
A law professor and sentencing policy expert argued against attacks that President Biden's Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson…
‘Unique Attack Chain’ Drops Backdoor in New Phishing Campaign
A threat group combines the use of steganography, open source tools, and Python scripts to target organizations in France.
Microsoft investigating claims of hacked source code repositories
Microsoft says they are investigating claims that the Lapsus$ data extortion hacking group breached their internal Azure DevOps source code…
VPNs Give Russians an End Run Around Censorship
As the invasion of Ukraine continues, Russian citizens have turned to virtual private networks — boosting demand for the software…
‘Rachel Maddow Show’ and former US ambassador to Russia backpedaling after being blasted for favorably comparing Hitler to Putin: ‘Vile and wrong!’
During a Friday night appearance on "The Rachel Maddow Show," a former U.S. ambassador to Russia was clobbered online for…