A US-led alliance of forty countries has committed to signing a pledge to never pay ransoms, leaving cybercriminals without one of their main funding mechanisms, according to a senior White House official. The International Counter Ransomware Initiative comes as the number of ransomware attacks grows worldwide, vowing to work toward eliminating the hackers’ funding mechanism No ransoms for cybercriminals. The United States is by far the worst hit, with 46% […]
The Enter the Puma phishing link shortening gang caught threat group believed to be from Ukraine went undetected for years, selling URL link-shortening services to other cybercriminals to help facilitate their malicious activities. Prolific Enter the Puma phishing link-shortening gang caught-Puma is believed to have registered 35,000-75,000 fake domain names since April 2022 and went undiscovered until cybersecurity analyst Infoblox exposed its activities earlier this year. Infoblox says it doesn’t […]
“Boeing claimed by LockBit ransom gang” Leading global aerospace, commercial jetliner manufacturer, and US military and defense contractor The Boeing Company is being claimed by the LockBit ransomware gang. The Russian-linked ransomware group posted Boeing as its latest conquest Friday around 2 p.m. ET on its dark leak site. “We are assessing this claim,” a Boeing spokesperson told Cybernews in a brief statement Friday just after 4:40 p.m. ET. LockBit says it has […]
NASCO exposes data of 800K people in MOVEit breach. The notice “NASCO exposes data of 800K people in MOVEit breach” to affected clients on October 27th stated that the National Account Service Company (NASCO) used MOVEit Transfer, a third-party software application, to exchange files. It joins a long list of companies affected by the attack on the software at the end of May. Threat actors were able to access NASCO’s MOVEit Transfer […]
Google Play Store Introduces Independent Security Review badge in the Play Store’s Data safety section for Android apps that have undergone a Mobile Application Security Assessment (MASA) audit. “We’ve launched this banner beginning with VPN apps due to the sensitive and significant amount of user data these apps handle,” Nataliya Stanetsky of the Android Security and Privacy Team said. MASA allows developers to have their apps independently validated against a global security […]
