President-elect Joe Biden plans to pluck a career intelligence official from the National Security Agency to serve in a newly created cybersecurity role on his National Security Council.
After hacking masked credit and debit card data of crores of Juspay users, the same hacker possibly known as ‘ShinyHunters’ is now selling databases belonging to three more Indian companies.
According to court documents, the six conspirators placed credit card skimming devices on gas pumps located in Northampton County within the Eastern District of Virginia.
The UK’s vital ‘goal-line’ protection against such threats has also been well covered, especially since the creation of the UK’s innovative National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
The DDoSecrets group is also offering to privately share an additional 1.9 terabytes of data from more than a dozen other firms with selected journalists or academic researchers.
For months hackers have been poking around computer networks at U.S. government departments, Fortune 500 companies, and possibly higher education institutions and research organizations — undetected.
New research from security firm Veritas found that 86% of public sector respondents targeted with ransomware refused to pay, compared to an average of 43% across all verticals.
A recent psychological study found that people are more likely to reveal personal and confidential information in less-formal settings, such as casual conversation or on social networks.
The funding round was led by NightDragon and global investment firm Francisco Partners. The fresh financing will be spent on supporting the company’s “rapid growth” in a market it says is worth $25bn.
Each Babuk Locker executables analyzed by BleepingComputer has been customized on a per-victim basis to contain a hardcoded extension, ransom note, and a Tor payment URL.