Apex America describes itself as a leading Digital Customer Experience services company in Latin America that partners with more than 50 global brands. It has operational centers in 14 locations in Latin America. That’s how they describes themselves. The threat actors known as REvil (Sodinokibi) describe them as targets who have so far refused to pay…
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Meet Lorenz — A new ransomware gang targeting the enterprise
Lawrence Abrams reports: A new ransomware operation known as Lorenz targets organizations worldwide with customized attacks demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransoms. The Lorenz ransomware gang began operating last month and has since amassed a growing list of victims whose stolen data has been published on a ransomware data leak site. Michael Gillespie…
President Signs Executive Order Charting New Course to Improve the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Protect Federal Government Networks
The following statement refers to the Executive Order signed by President Biden. The full text of the Executive Order can be found here. White House – Today, President Biden signed an Executive Order to improve the nation’s cybersecurity and protect federal government networks. Recent cybersecurity incidents such as SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange, and the Colonial Pipeline…
Operator of WeLeakInfo database marketplace sentenced to two years in prison
Catalin Cimpanu reports: One of the three operators of WeLeakInfo, a website that sold access to hacked databases, was sentenced today in the Netherlands to two years in prison, with one year suspended. In court proceedings that took place earlier this year, the suspect, a 23-year-old whose name was not released, admitted to managing the…
Data from Indiana and Oregon school districts dumped by ransomware threat actors
Updated March 7, 2022: On March 6, Logansport Community School Corp. reported the incident to the Maine Attorney General’s Office as impacting 2,750 people. Previous post: This week, two sets of threat actors dumped data from K-12 school districts in Indiana and Oregon. Both districts had disclosed ransomware incidents in April. Logansport Community School Corp…
“We are apolitical” — DarkSide threat actors
By now, probably everyone has heard about the Colonial Pipeline security incident that has been linked to threat actors known as DarkSide. On April 12, this site published an email chat with DarkSide. If you missed that chat write-up, you can read it here. On May 8, after the mainstream media reported that the Colonial…