KYIV, June 16 (Reuters) - Ukrainian police said on Wednesday they had uncovered a group of hackers who had carried out ransomware attacks on foreign companies and universities between 2019 and 2021.
A total of 21 searches on the homes and the vehicles of the alleged hackers were conducted police said. They did not say whether any of the suspects had been detained.
Hackers Target Videogame Publishers for Ransom, Source Code - WSJ
Gamers have struggled for years with hackers who cheat and take over accounts. Now, videogame studios are coming under serious attack, prompting them to step up their cyber defenses.
Electronic Arts Inc. said Thursday it was breached by hackers recently, confirming an earlier report by technology news outlet Motherboard. That followed a disclosure by Polish game developer CD Projekt SA in February of a ransomware attack and a similar invasion of systems at Capcom Co. Ltd. last November.
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Ukrainian police say hackers who targeted US firms with ransomware have been uncovered | TheHill
Ukrainian police have identified a group of six hackers who engaged in ransomware targeting the servers of companies from South Korea and the U.S.
Between 2019 and 2021, Ukrainian police identified several instances in which hackers threatened to reveal the personal information of people within the companies or universities being attacked unless they received a ransom in return, the National Police of Ukraine said in a statement .
According to police, four South Korean companies were attacked and three American universities: Stanford University Medical School, the University of Maryland and the University of California.
Peloton exercise bike could be vulnerable to hackers - NBC2 News
AI Creates False Documents That Fake Out Hackers - Scientific American
Hackers constantly improve at penetrating cyberdefenses to steal valuable documents. So some researchers propose using an artificial-intelligence algorithm to hopelessly confuse them, once they break in, by hiding the real deal amid a mountain of convincing fakes.
The algorithm, called Word Embedding–based Fake Online Repository Generation Engine (WE-FORGE), generates decoys of patents under development. But someday it could “create a lot of fake versions of every document that a company feels it needs to guard,” says its developer, Dartmouth College cybersecurity researcher V. S. Subrahmanian.
An Inside Look at How Hackers Operate - Security Boulevard
We’ve all seen shows where a character like The Flash, for instance, needs eyes on a situation to fight the bad guy, and a computer nerd, like Felicity, breaks into Central City’s camera network to help save the day. Movies like WarGames, Hackers and more recently, shows like Mr. Robot show us all sorts of Hollywood-hyped excitement. These shows play up the glamorous side of what is more often a seedy business.
Over the past couple of months, we’ve seen quite a few nasty breaches with wide-reaching effects. As a security craftsman, I always get asked how these attacks went down.
DOE National Lab Develops Cyber Decoy Tech to Trick Hackers; Thomas Edgar Quoted
The laboratory is working to patent Shadow Figment and has licensed Attivo Networks to commercialize the technology. Edgar and his team published their research findings on the Journal of Information Warfare.
How Vulnerable Is Your Sector? Find Out From The World's Best Hackers
The 2021 Synack Trust Report relies on data from thousands of security tests to reveal new insights into how organizations are prepared to fight ransomware and other digital threats.
In its fourth year, this global report has become a critical benchmark for CISOs and security leaders across all sectors. Based on thousands of security tests carried out by the world's most skilled ethical hackers from July 2020 through April 2021 , it measures security preparedness and the depth of cybersecurity defenses across organizations.
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