DarkSide Ransomware as a service (RaaS) criminal group got close to $5 million to decrypt locked systems at Colonial Pipeline Story technewsworld.com Specialist hackers are selling their skillsets on the open darknet market. Another Technewsworld article. What is happening is that the hackers are now not only working on encrypting data and asking for bitcoin … Read more
We are always being attacked by criminal elements in nation-states that are against us (China – Russia – Iran – and North Korea or NORK). The following information is presented copied from the FBI website https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber/most-wanted in case you can’t read the small letters here they are starting with the Russian WANTED BY THE … Read more
I hope you had a good 4th of July Weekend – since we are back in the workweek with a lot of old news regurgitated: I knew when we got the SolarWinds and Exchange server attacks back in the beginning of the year we could be attacked with a quicker frequency and it will get … Read more
I am trying yet again to illustrate the enhanced risk we all take when we have friends, family, work connections, philanthropic connections, and many other connections. In fact let us just call them social media X connections, family, work, and friends. How many friends and other people do you talk to on a … Read more
Yes cloud service can be abused – but let’s be specific: Dark reading article: The attack chain begins with the threat actor sending potential victims an email—on a topic of likely interest or relevance to the victim—with a link to a document on Google Docs. Users who follow the link are directed to a … Read more