The tactic involves threat actors stealing data from firms in addition to encrypting files. As well as demanding a ransom, attackers can later threaten to leak the stolen information if it’s not paid.
Some students at the DeKalb County School District may have their personal information exposed in a 2019 security breach at PCS Revenue Control Systems, a school nutrition technology services firm.
About 52 percent of Indian organizations said they fell victim to a successful cybersecurity attack in the last 12 months, according to a survey released on Tuesday by Sophos.
Australian Communications Minister Paul Fletcher said on Tuesday that Australian telcos have blocked over 55 million scam calls since the industry got a new scam call code in December.
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are growing bigger in volume, and they have also become more targeted and increasingly persistent, according to web security services provider Akamai.
HYCU, which was founded in April 2018, managed to stay completely private for a very long time before working with Bain Capital Ventures, which is leading the A funding round, said CEO Simon Taylor.
Cyber insurance carriers typically have lists or “panels” of approved vendors for various incident response services that address breaches and ransomware attacks, including ransomware negotiations.
According to court documents, the 30-year-old would obtain fake passports in the names of other people, then use these fraudulent documents to open bank accounts and set up sham businesses.
The fraudsters behind the “I accidentally reported you” Steam scam usually approach their targets under the pretext that they need something, or they have something to say.
RedEcho, which was linked to a campaign that targeted India’s power grid, has taken down its attack infrastructure after having its operations exposed at the end of February 2021.