Belarusian-Ukrainian national Maksim Silnikau was arrested in Spain and extradited to the USA to face charges for creating the Ransom Cartel ransomware operation in 2021 and for running a malvertising operation from 2013 to 2022. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas
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Belarusian-Ukrainian national Maksim Silnikau was arrested in Spain and extradited to the USA to face charges for creating the Ransom Cartel ransomware operation in 2021 and for running a malvertising operation from 2013 to 2022. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two security flaws in Microsoft’s Azure Health Bot Service that, if exploited, could permit a malicious actor to achieve lateral movement within customer environments and access sensitive patient data. The critical issues, now patched by Microsoft, could have allowed access to cross-tenant resources within the service, Tenable said in a new […]
The criminal ransomware group Dispossessor, a suspected rebrand of LockBit, has been disrupted by an international law enforcement operation, according to the FBI. “On August 12, FBI Cleveland announced the disruption of ‘Radar/Dispossessor’ — the criminal ransomware group led by the online moniker ‘Brain’ — and the dismantling of three US servers, three United Kingdom […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launches TRACTOR program to work with university and industry researchers on creating a translation system that can turn C code into secure, idiomatic Rust code. Go to Source Author: Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer
Traditionally, the focus has been on defending against digital threats such as malware, ransomware, and phishing attacks by detecting them and responding. However, as cyber threats become more sophisticated. There is a growing recognition of the importance of measures that stop new attacks before they are recognized. With high-value assets, it’s not good enough to […]
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Monday announced the disruption of online infrastructure associated with a nascent ransomware group called Dispossessor (aka Radar). The effort saw the dismantling of three U.S. servers, three United Kingdom servers, 18 German servers, eight U.S.-based criminal domains, and one German-based criminal domain. Dispossessor is said to be […]
Generative AI, which has the unique ability to create original content and actions, had its conceptual origins in 1906 when Russian mathematician Andrei Andreevich Markov created a stochastic model of probabilities known as the Markov chain. Markov’s ideas remained mainly theoretical until the 1960s and 1970s, when the computing era took hold and early versions […]
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of a new phishing campaign that masquerades as the Security Service of Ukraine to distribute malware capable of remote desktop access. The agency is tracking the activity under the name UAC-0198. More than 100 computers are estimated to have been infected since July 2024, including […]
European privacy advocate NOYB (None of Your Business) has filed nine GDPR complaints about X using the personal data from over 60 million users in Europe to train “Grok,” the social media company’s large language model. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas