Ransomware

All roads in the FNF case lead to a ransomware incident, but there’s still no confirmation which group executed the attack or if a ransom was paid.

Analysis reveals 18 of ransomware gang Black Basta’s 300-plus victims were extorted over $1 million each, with one handed over $9 million.

Cybertruck, Okta, Google and More Google, Black Basta, Zoom, Unitronics, Aaran Leyland, and More News on the Security Weekly News.

Nine out of the ten funding articles mention AI - they're either using it in their products, or protecting AI use cases (particularly GenAI and LLM use). We discuss Broadcom's closing of the VMware acquisition, how they operate similarly to private equity firms, and how it's mostly bad news for VMware employees and customers. Some weird legal ca...

More than 200 sites of care and 30 hospitals in Ardent Health Services' system were affected by the ransomware attack, which was discovered Thanksgiving morning.

Some immediate lessons for security teams to heed.

Chimera, Aliquippa, FNF, Lazarus, DARPA, Ransom Payments, Namedrop, Google, Aaran Leyland, and more are on this edition of the Security Weekly News.