Protecting data on overseas cloud servers and navigating aggressive regulation promise to keep tech lawyers employed for years to come, if the EU’s quick succession of Privacy Shield, GDPR and the forthcoming ePrivacy Regulation provides any indication of what’s in store. Data guardians must be prepared to bring their technical A-game in regard to knowing…
Bitcoin and its multitude of cousins may not be governed by central banks or governments, but the authorities are tracking the meteoric rise for criminal abuse as well as taxation levies against unreported profit gains.
Critical infrastructure is being targeted by cybercriminals looking to wreak havoc whether working alone or in concert with nation-states.
Lawmakers of both political parties are demanding answers about Facebook’s data practices and whether Cambridge Analytica, which did voter research on behalf of the Trump campaign, took data from 50 million Facebook accounts.
A self-proclaimed “mischievous boy” who calls himself “ZENIS” unleashed ransomware attacks that encrypt the files and then purposely deleted the backups. Discovered last week by MalwareHunterTeam, Zenis uses a customized encryption method that warns recipients to pay up or risk losing forever their infected files. A BleepingComputer.com blog post by Lawrence Abrams details how the…
After monitoring the malware distributor for the past six months, Talos said in a blog post that Gozi ISFB remains active in 2018 leveraging a wider distribution surface in attack recent campaigns.
A malvertising campaign uses decoy websites pushing cryptocurrencies and then redirects users to the RIG exploit kit, Malwarebytes Labs said. The decoy page contains a third-party JavaScript that appears to be conditionally loaded, based on the visitor’s user agent and geolocation, according to a Feb. 28 blog post. One spoof site carries the url http://investingtodayfix[dot]top…
In early February, Unit 42 tracked Sofacy’s two-prong campaign using completely different toolsets to attack various Ministries of Foreign Affairs around the world.
Cloudflare on its website explains how it was the target of a 196-Gbps SSDP (Simple Service Discovery Protocol) attack with far greater power than usually seen in cybersecurity circles.
A new ransomware attack called Thanatos demands payment in Bitcoin Cash, which contains a decryption bug that makes it impossible for attack victims to recover stolen files, reports security researcher Malware HunterTeam.
