The Iranian-backed Fox Kitten hacking group is suspected to be behind the nefarious acts of Pay2Key ransomware that began a new wave of attacks in November-December 2020.

Cybercriminals lock down networks for one simple reason: it’s the quickest and easiest way to make money from a compromised organization and they’re unlikely to get caught.

Texas-based SolarWinds told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that its executives were not aware that the company had been breached when they decided to sell stock.

Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette, DOE’s Chief Information Officer Rocky Campione, and NNSA CIO Wayne Jones all participated in the briefings to the relevant congressional oversight bodies.

Federal officials dropped a holiday gift for cybersecurity managers across the government: the draft remote user use case for the latest iteration of the Trusted Internet Connection, or TIC, policy.

The company leaked 12 million records on patients including highly sensitive diagnoses, before the exposed cloud server was struck by the infamous “meow” attacker, researchers have revealed.

The UK’s Ministry of Justice (MoJ) reported 17 serious data breaches during the last financial year, according to official figures analyzed by the Parliament Street think tank.

Multiple security researchers note the return of an email campaign attempting to spread the malware, which is often used to drop the Ryuk ransomware and Trickbot banking Trojan.

Of those who were offered training, 82% claimed that it was a short briefing rather than something more comprehensive. Less than a fifth (17%) said they had regular training sessions.

The three services were active at insorg.org [2014 snapshot], safe-inet.com [2013 snapshot], and safe-inet.net before the domains were seized and replaced with law enforcement banners on Monday.