"Special thanks to BitDefender for helping fix our issues," DarkSide said. "This will make us even better."
DarkSide soon proved it wasn't bluffing, unleashing a string of attacks. This month, it paralyzed the Colonial Pipeline Co., prompting a shutdown of the 5,500 mile pipeline that carries 45% of the fuel used on the East Coast, quickly followed by a rise in gasoline prices, panic buying of gas across the Southeast and closures of thousands of gas stations.
Instead, Colonial paid DarkSide $4.4 million in Bitcoin for a key to unlock its files. "I will admit that I wasn't comfortable seeing money go out the door to people like this," CEO Joseph Blount told The Wall Street Journal.
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ParkMobile, a parking payment app available throughout Houston's most popular destinations, was hacked in March, company leadership announced. (Courtesy Visit Houston).
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Insurer CNA Paid Hackers $40M for Ransomware Decryption - MSSP Alert
CNA Financial, among the largest insurers in the U.S. has paid some $40 million to ransomware hijackers to unlock its data and restore its network systems.
CNA, which is the seventh largest commercial insurance provider in the world, coughed up the lofty sum two weeks after hackers stole data and locked up its systems in early March, Bloomberg reported. The energy company resumed operations on March 12, 2021.
Hackers Infiltrate Japan's Biggest Dating App | PYMNTS.com
Fraudsters hacked Omiai, Japan's biggest dating app, exposing personal data like drivers' licenses, insurance cards and passports, Bloomberg reported on Monday (May 24).
The Omiai app, which is operated by Net Marketing Co., has more than 1.7 million members. It's not known how many were exposed by the cyberattack. No credit card data was leaked, the company told Bloomberg, but it has not been confirmed what type of information was exposed.
Air India Data Breach: Hackers Access Personal Details Of 4.5 Million Customers
An Air India passenger flight prepares for landing to the Biju Patnaik International Airport in the ... [+] eastern Indian state odisha's capital city Bhubaneswar (Photo by STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The airline said it first learned of the incident on February 25, but only learned the identities of affected passengers on March 25 and May 4.
"This is to inform that SITA PSS our data processor of the passenger service system (which is responsible for storing and processing of personal information of the passengers) had recently been subjected to a cybersecurity attack leading to personal data leak of certain passengers," Air India said in a breach notification sent over the weekend.
Report: Old Tech Makes US Vulnerable To Hackers | PYMNTS.com
U.S. companies that deal in critical infrastructure are especially vulnerable to ransomware and other cyberattacks because they have moved too slowly and spent too little to defend themselves, the Financial Times (FT) reported.
Officials and private sector experts said the Colonial Pipeline shutdown in response to ransomware attackers who received $4.5 million from the company was just one example of the types of attacks likely in the immediate future, according to FT.
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Newell will be speaking – and fielding questions – Wednesday at 6 p.m. during the labs’ quarterly Frontiers in Science program, presented by the Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows through the Bradbury Science Museum. This series includes presentations by scientists, engineers and others on the most innovative developments in science.
Computer chip thwarts hackers by changing structure
We have developed and tested a secure new computer processor that thwarts hackers by randomly changing its underlying structure, thus making it virtually impossible to hack.
Last summer, 525 security researchers spent three months trying to hack our Morpheus processor as well as others. All attempts against Morpheus failed. This study was part of a program sponsored by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Program Agency to design a secure processor that could protect vulnerable software. DARPA released the results on the program to the public for the first time in January 2021.
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A must-read @propublica investigation about how cybersecurity marketing got in the way of quietly dismantling DarkS… https://t.co/PXZdGMYuU5 nicoleperlroth (from San Francisco lifer) Mon May 24 16:20:25 +0000 2021
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