The Biden administration is preparing to issue a series of actions, including sanctions, to make it more difficult for hackers to profit off of ransomware attacks through the use of digital currency.

Chipmaker AMD has addressed a medium severity issue in Platform Security Processor (PSP) chipset driver, tracked as CVE-2021-26333, that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from the targeted system.

Linux binaries have been found trying to take over Windows systems in what appears to be the first publicly identified malware to utilize Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to install unwelcome payloads.

Criminals behind the Ryuk ransomware were early exploiters of the Windows MSHTML flaw, actively leveraging the bug in campaigns ahead of a patch released by Microsoft this week.

Hackers abroad have been able to pose as 75 bank customers here to make about $500,000 in fake credit card payments. This was done by a sophisticated method of hijacking the OTPs by banks.

The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) has warned that a “highly sophisticated” cyber-attack may have exposed residents’ personal data, including financial information.

Suspected hackers last month briefly disrupted the website of the authority running Germany’s September 26 general election, a spokesman for the agency told AFP Wednesday.

Microsoft on Thursday published additional guidance on addressing recently disclosed vulnerabilities in the OMI framework, along with new protections to secure affected Azure VM management extensions.

The Series C round was led by Founders Fund, Persona said in an announcement this morning. Meritech Capital Partners, BOND, Index Ventures, and Coatue Management participated as well.

Government employees at the City of Yonkers were denied access to their computers last week, after cybercriminals launched a ransomware attack. The city said that it refused to pay the ransom.