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Just before the 2024 general election was announced, the UK government was looking to bring in tougher rules on ransomware payments, including the potential to ban ransom payments entirely. The justification? A decisive action to cut off the business model of cyber extortionists. But the message around ransom payments is contradictory to say the least. […]
Article content A new hacking group that breached the systems of a French multinational corporation has given the firm until Thursday to cough up the ransom dough: $125,000 USD worth of baguettes. On Monday, Hellcat, a new cybercrime enterprise of which little is known, posted to its dark web ransomware leak site that it had […]
Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state-backed hackers have been active throughout the 2024 United States campaign season, compromising digital accounts associated with political campaigns, spreading disinformation, and probing election systems. But in a report from early October, the threat-sharing and coordination group known as the Election Infrastructure ISAC warned that cybercriminals like ransomware attackers pose a […]
Data on over 100 million people was exposed because of the ransomware attack on UnitedHealth subsidiary Change Healthcare earlier this year, according to a document from the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights. The office is investigating the February incident. The new data confirms previous estimates from UnitedHealth CEO Andrew […]
In the long history of computer crime, the players, goals and tactics have seen a lot of change. Early computers were fairly isolated systems reserved for niche applications, mainly in academic environments. The first instances of security “attacks” were examples of tinkering that went too far rather than malicious activity. Today’s world is different. Computers […]