Lawrence Abrams reports: The DoppelPaymer Ransomware is the latest family threatening to sell or publish a victim’s stolen files if they do not pay a ransom demand. A new tactic being used by ransomware operators that perform network-wide encryption is to steal a victim’s files before encrypting any devices. They then threaten to publish or sell this…
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Genesis market 2020 overview, a bazaar for buying data out of compromised computers.
Under The Breach explains: A group of sophisticated hackers team up to sell the data of computers they managed to infect. The site began operating around the beginning of 2019 and only let users with an invitation code to join (it maintains this exclusivity until today). To find a person who has invitation codes is…
Lawsuit in India Seeks to Shut Down Access to U.S. Journalism Website
Naomi Gilens of EFF writes: Computer security researchers and journalists play a critical role in uncovering flaws in software and information systems. Their research and reporting allows users to protect themselves, and vendors to repair their products before attackers can exploit security flaws. But all too often, corporations and governments try to silence reporters, and…
Three suspects arrested in Maltese bank cyber-heist
Catalin Cimpanu reports: British police have arrested yesterday three individuals that they believe are involved in the February 2019 hack of Bank of Valletta (BOV), one of Malta’s biggest banks. National Crime Agency (NCA) officers arrested two males, aged 22 and 17, in London, and a third suspect, a 39-year-old male in Belfast, Northern Ireland….
Japanese company NEC confirms 2016 security breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Japanese electronics and IT company NEC Corp disclosed a security breach today that took place more than three years ago, in December 2016. The company’s admission comes after reports in Japanese media [1, 2, 3] that the company might have suffered a security breach but decided to keep it quiet. Read more on ZDNet.
AlphaBay Dark Web Market Mod Faces 20 Years After Pleading Guilty
Sergiu Gatlan reports an update on the case against Bryan Connor Herrell, who was indicted in 2019. Bryan Connor Herrell, a 25-year-old from Fresno, California, pleaded guilty this week in the US to racketeering charges related to the now-defunct dark web marketplace Alphabay. Before AlphaBay was shut down by law enforcement in July 2017, Herrell was a marketplace…