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War Is Calling Crypto’s ‘Neutrality’ Into Question
War in Ukraine and Western sanctions against Russia have made cryptocurrency a hot potato for international politics...
Russia Sanctions May Spark Escalating Cyber Conflict
President Biden joined European leaders this week in enacting economic sanctions against Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine. The West has promised tougher sanctions are coming, but experts warn these will almost certainly trigger a Russian retaliation against America and its allies,...
White House Denies Mulling Massive Cyberattacks Against Russia
The White House has denied reports that President Biden has been presented with an arsenal of ways to launch massive cyberattacks against Russia – attacks designed to disrupt the country’s ability to sustain its military operations in Ukraine. NBC News on Thursday reported that the options includ...
This Week in Security News - February 25, 2022
Recent cyberattacks increasingly target open-source web servers, and US officials tell businesses to watch for potential ransomware attacks after Biden announces Russia sanctions...
U.S. Sanctions 4 Ukrainians for Working with Russia to Destabilize Ukraine
The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday announced sanctions against four current and former Ukrainian government officials for engaging in "Russian government-directed influence activities" in the country, including gathering sensitive information about its critical infrastructure. The agency sa...
US Sanctions Pegasus-maker NSO Group and 3 Others For Selling Spyware
The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday added four companies, including Israel-based spyware companies NSO Group and Candiru, to a list of entities engaging in "malicious cyber activities." The agency said the two companies were added to the list based on evidence that "these entities developed...
This Week in Security News - September 24, 1021
Water Basilik Uses New HCrypt Variant to Flood Victims With RAT Payloads & Biden Administration Issues Sanctions To Counter Ransomware...
Feds Sanctions SUEX Cryptocurrency Exchange for Laundering Ransomware Payouts
In an unprecedented move, the federal government has sanctioned a cryptocurrency exchange for laundering ransom transactions for cybercriminals and helping them evade law-enforcement activity. As part of its continued hardline against ransomware attacks, the U.S. Department of Treasury has...
US Sanctions Cryptocurrency Exchange SUEX for Aiding Ransomware Gangs
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Russian cryptocurrency exchange Suex for helping facilitate and launder transactions from at least eight ransomware variants as part of the government's efforts to crack down on a surge in ransomware incidents and make it difficult for...
Security News: Exchange ProxyShell, Zoom RCE, Citrix Canceled PT Acknowledgments, Cisco No Patch Router RCEs
Hello everyone! This is a new episode with my comments on the latest Information Security news. Exchange ProxyShell I want to start with something about attacks on Exchange. ProxyShell is in the news, the LockFile ransomware compromised more than 2000 servers. On the other hand, there is basicall...
No More Ransom Saves Victims Nearly €1 billion Over 5 Years
To date, the No More Ransom repository of ransomware decryptors has helped more than 6 million victims recover their files, keeping nearly a billion euros out of the hands of cybercriminals, according to a Monday release. Launched five years ago, No More Ransom is maintained via cooperation betwe...
Indictments, Attribution Unlikely to Deter Chinese Hacking
The federal government is fighting back against what it says are China-based cyberattacks against U.S. universities and companies with indictments and a “naming-and-shaming” approach — but researchers aren’t convinced the efforts will come to much in terms of deterring future activity. On Monday,...
Iran Media Websites Seized by U.S. in Disinformation Campaign
The Department of Justice has seized the domains of 36 Iranian media sites that officials say weren’t just operating in violation of sanctions, but were part of a widespread government-backed malign-influence operation targeting the U.S. The DoJ said that 33 of the sites are run by the Iranian...
Don Spies and Kim Grauer on tracking illicit Bitcoin transactions
In this episode of Security Nation, we’re joined by Don Spies and Kim Grauer of Chainalysis. They discuss the relationship between ransomware and cryptocurrency and how Chainalysis leverages unique characteristics of the latter to combat the former. Stick around for our Rapid Rundown, where Tod a...
PHDays 10: U.S. Sanctions, My Talk on Vulristics, Other Great Talks Related to VM
Today I will talk about the Positive Hack Days conference, which took place on May 20 and May 21 in Moscow. I can say that this was and remains the main event for Information Security Practitioners in Russia. First of all, I have to say a few words about the sanctions. The organizer of the event,...
Evil Corp Impersonates PayloadBin Group to Avoid Federal Sanctions
The criminal group Evil Corp is trying to mask its latest activity by using previously unknown ransomware called PayloadBin, according to researchers. The move is believed to be an attempt to confuse law enforcement and avoid sanctions imposed by the U.S. federal government against entities it...
Researchers Link CryptoCore Attacks On Cryptocurrency Exchanges to North Korea
State-sponsored hackers affiliated with North Korea have been behind a slew of attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges over the past three years, new evidence has revealed. Attributing the attack with "medium-high" likelihood to the Lazarus Group aka APT38 or Hidden Cobra, researchers from Israeli...
Colonial Pipeline Shells Out $5M in Extortion Payout, Report
Colonial Pipeline Co., operator of the largest U.S. fuel pipeline, reportedly paid $5 million to criminals behind a ransomware attack that has sent fuel prices spiking up and down the East Coast. Sources familiar with the payout told Bloomberg that representatives of Colonial Pipeline paid the...
2021. The age of the super vulnerability?
I don’t know about you, but to me it seems that every week we are seeing another vulnerability that not only grants significant access to the vulnerable system but also more widely internally. This last week we have seen the latest round of Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities. The April 2021 updat...