SecurityScorecard provides analysis of organizational cyber hygiene through a rating system, while LIFARS, a digital forensics firm, has offered witness testimony for major federal cybercrime cases involving nation-state threat actors. CEOs for both firms tell ISMG why their merger is significant.
Reports say that Ukraine's defense ministry and two banks have fallen victim to a cyberattack on Tuesday. This follows what appeared to be mild escalation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict over the weekend, in which top U.S. officials warned that Russia could invade the former Soviet state this week.
The SEC announced that BlockFi, a crypto lending platform based in Jersey City, N.J., has been charged with failing to register its lending product and violating registration provisions. To settle, it will pay $50 million, stop unregistered offers and sales, and comply within 60 days.
By almost every measure, ransomware continues to get worse, not least in the average amount criminals receive when a victim chooses to pay a ransom. So say new reports assessing the volume and severity of ransomware attacks, the flow of cryptocurrency, attackers' target selection and more.
"All too often we hear that our industrial control systems have no security. That's not true," says Kevin Jones, group CISO of Airbus. In fact, he states, "some of these systems have been designed with security encapsulating them and security around them." He discusses enhancing cyber resilience.
On this week's "Sound Off," we ask John Kindervag, the founder of Zero Trust, for his reaction to the recently released Office of Management and Budget federal strategy to move the U.S. government toward a mature Zero Trust architecture.
Whether it's clients demanding robust data protection, surging ransomware attacks, or risky behavior by company insiders, law firms are under pressure to implement a comprehensive data protection strategy.
A 60-second TV advertisement, paid for by cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase. aired during the Super Bowl on Sunday. It featured a QR code that took those who scanned it to the trading website. Some cybersecurity experts have voiced concerns about using vulnerable QR code on live TV.
The U.S. CISA has issued a "Shields Up" alert to U.S. organizations to protect against potential retaliatory cyberattacks at the hands of the Russians - especially if the Biden administration intervenes in the country's conflict with Ukraine, where Russia has massed some 100,000 troops.
Days after the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Secret Service issued a cybersecurity advisory on the ransomware-as-a-service group BlackByte, it hit the corporate IT network of the U.S. National Football League's San Francisco 49ers team.
Security experts explain how the Rust programming language helps the BlackCat ransomware group execute targeted attacks on critical infrastructure. Compared to traditional languages like C or C++, Rust brings speed, security, stability and unparalleled detection evasion capabilities to the table.
Russian authorities have continued to arrest alleged administrators of multiple Russian-language cybercrime markets and communities, including Ferum Shop, Sky-Fraud and Trump's Dumps. It follows last month's arrest of suspected REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware affiliates based in the country.
A massive data breach has been uncovered by researchers who say the incident totals in excess of 172 GB of data and affects an estimated 19 million people. The victims are primarily customers of online appointment company FlexBooker, researchers say.
In a declassified letter to CIA Director William Burns and DNI Avril Haines from 2021, two U.S. senators urged transparency around alleged "bulk surveillance" conducted by the CIA in response to now-declassified documents compiled by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
Spain's National Police Department says it has arrested eight members of an undisclosed cybercriminal gang over SIM swapping fraud. The suspects posed as trustworthy representatives of banks and other organizations and used phishing and smishing techniques to obtain PII and bank details of victims.
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