DOJ Arrests Founders of Crypto Mixer Samourai for $2 Billion in Illegal Transactions

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday announced the arrest of two co-founders of a cryptocurrency mixer called Samourai and seized the service for allegedly facilitating over $2 billion in illegal transactions and for laundering more than $100 million in criminal proceeds. To that end,...

Raccoon Infostealer operator extradited to the United States

A Ukrainian national, Mark Sokolovsky, has been indicted for crimes related to fraud, money laundering and aggravated identity theft and extradited to the United States from the Netherlands, the US Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Texas has announced. In March 2022, around the same ti...

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

In any strategy aimed at combating cyber threats, the essential peace is the adequate regulation of possible frailties or susceptibility points. This concept embodies a broad spectrum of actions covering the spotting, categorizing, ranking, and rectification of possible risk areas within a digita...

Hive Pro and ICS Arabia announce strategic partnership to enhance the reach of Threat Exposure Management to Smart Cities and Digital Infrastructure

HERNDON, VA., Nov. 28, 2023 - Hive Pro®, a pioneer vendor in Threat Exposure Management, announced a strategic partnership with ICS Arabia, a front-runner in the development of Smart Cities and Digital Infrastructure in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. This partnership heralds a...

HHS Launches 'Digiheals' Project to Better Protect US Hospitals From Ransomware

An innovation agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services will fund research into better defenses for the US health care system’s digital infrastructure...

Expanding horizons—Microsoft Security’s continued commitment to multicloud

Multicloud strategies have become the new norm for most enterprises, with more than 90 percent of organizations adopting multiple cloud infrastructures, platforms, and services to run their businesses.1 However, a lack of visibility into their digital infrastructure exposes them to significant...

Securing Open-Source Software

Good essay arguing that open-source software is a critical national-security asset and needs to be treated as such: Open source is at least as important to the economy, public services, and national security as proprietary code, but it lacks the same standards and safeguards. It bears the qualiti...

Live from VMworld 2020: A Spotlight on Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Cybersecurity is no longer a buzzword. It is now a concern for businesses, government entities, consumers — for anyone who relies on the internet in our increasingly digital world. Earlier this year, the FBI reported a 400% increase in cybercrime1, a stark reality that has been exacerbated by the...

VMworld 2020: Delivering Intrinsic Security to the World’s Digital Infrastructure

A year ago, we bet big, with a vision to truly disrupt the security industry — and ultimately help more customers stay safe from cyber attacks. The VMware acquisition of Carbon Black created a massive opportunity to leverage infrastructure and control points in new ways to make security intrinsic...

Ransomware Attack Cripples Several Atlanta City Systems

UPDATE – Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said during a Monday press conference that the emergency response team continues to “work around the clock” to address an ongoing ransomware attack on the city’s systems that first started Thursday. Many services are still unavailable four days after th...

U.S. Should Play Larger Role in Securing Internet, Hathaway Says

In her much anticipated talk, acting senior director for cyberspace by President Obama, Melissa Hathaway generally reviewed what we already knew, and what has been previously reported when it comes to federal cyber security: The White House should coordinate IT security efforts; private sector...