How to Negotiate with Ransomware Hackers | The New Yorker
A few days after Thanksgiving last year, Kurtis Minder got a message from a man whose small construction-engineering firm in upstate New York had been hacked. Minder and his security company, GroupSense, got calls and e-mails like this all the time now, many of them tinged with panic. An employee at a brewery, or a printshop, or a Web-design company would show up for work one morning and find all the computer files locked and a ransom note demanding a cryptocurrency payment to release them.
Hackers are targeting employees returning to the post-COVID office – TechCrunch
With COVID-19 restrictions lifting and employees starting to make their way back into offices, hackers are being forced to change tack. While remote workers have been scammers' main target for the past 18 months due to the mass shift to home working necessitated by the pandemic, a new phishing campaign is attempting to exploit those who have started to return to the physical workplace.
"This is uncommon among most Microsoft phishing pages where the tactic of spoofing the Microsoft login screen opens an authenticator panel," Main continued. "By giving the files the appearance of being real and not redirecting to another login page, the user may be more likely to supply their credentials in order to view the updates.”
Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers have struck again at the US and other countries - CNN
How secrecy on cybersecurity is giving hackers an advantage
Russian Hackers Hit The U.S. Yet Again — A Security Expert Details How To Respond | WHQR
CHANG: So a Microsoft cybersecurity official is attributing this attack to a Russian-based group called Nobelium and says that they've also seen some overlap with another Russian group called Cozy Bear, which was behind the SolarWinds attack last year. Tell me, how do experts determine who's responsible?
PAINTER: Well, they look at a range of things. And I think Microsoft looked at what the tactics and procedures of this group did, followed some of the electronic evidence, also looked at motives. And we certainly have seen, as you mentioned, no shortage of Russian government-sponsored malicious activity online. And this is just the latest chapter of that.
Cybersecurity workers are in high demand to stop hackers from infiltrating businesses
TAMPA, Fla. — Cyber attacks can hit any business at any time, and the impact can be devastating. As a result, the state of Florida is seeing a huge demand for people trained in cybersecurity.
The University of Tampa is ramping up its cybersecurity programs to ensure students are ready to enter the workforce immediately after graduation.
University of Tampa Graduate Student Chloe Zabala was originally in school for business but got drawn in the field of cybersecurity.
The Bizarro Streaming Site That Hackers Built From Scratch | WIRED
"We have not seen an entire fake streaming site created before," says Sherrod DeGrippo, senior director of threat research and detection at Proofpoint. "This is a creative next level of social engineering."
To create convincing thumbnail posters of films, the attackers raided design-focused social network Behance for images, along with an advertising firm and a book called How to Steal a Dog . The results tilt toward the absurd, but honestly not much more so than what you might find at the bottom of your Netflix queue.
Audio House customer data possibly stolen by hackers, Tech News News & Top Stories - The Straits
SINGAPORE - Customers of consumer electronics retailer Audio House may have had their personal details, such as names and contact numbers, stolen by a hacking group that had allegedly hacked furniture retailer Vhive.
Audio House told customers in an e-mail that it was alerted on Monday (May 31) that hacking group Altdos might have gained unauthorised entry into its servers.
The group claimed to have accessed the retailer's membership database, stolen information from it and used the data to blackmail Audio House, the retailer added.
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