Gillmor Gang: Win Win
Just finished a Twitter Spaces session. It is an engaging platform, somewhat clunky in feature set but easily a tie overall with Clubhouse. I don’t see this as a horse race, however, more as cooperating teams fleshing out a platform where both.....»»
Another big company hit by a ransomware attack
Accenture, the global consulting firm, has been hit by the LockBit ransomware gang, according to the cybercriminal group's website......»»
Disgruntled Member of "Conti" Ransomware Gang Leaks Files
"Someone claiming to work with one of the most notorious ransomware gangs says they're fed up with how extortion money is divvied up and has leaked a host of the gang's files on a hacker forum," reports NBC News: The files, posted to a forum frequen.....»»
Gillmor Gang: Time Delay
Writing our way out of the place we’re in is tricky. The words come easily enough, each measured for its emotional weight in the stream of issues we face. It’s possible this paragraph will disappear as I find my ground. Mandates, Cuomo, O.....»»
Motherboard Vendor GIGABYTE Hit By RansomExx Ransomware Gang
Taiwanese computer hardware vendor GIGABYTE has suffered a ransomware attack, and hackers are currently threatening to release more than 112 GB of business data on the dark web unless the company agrees to their ransom demands. An anonymous reader sh.....»»
Gillmor Gang: Social climbing
Fear is back with the deadly combination of pandemic politics and a vicious variant. The good news is that if enough people took the shots we could cut the damage to something manageable. The other good news is progress on the twin issues of Trump an.....»»
Gillmor Gang: Social Climbing
Fear is back with the deadly combination of pandemic politics and a vicious variant. The good news is that if enough people took the shots we could cut the damage to something manageable. The other good news is progress on the twin issues of Trump an.....»»
Ransomware key to unlock customer data from REvil attack
The gang behind the attack had previously asked for $70m to access the stolen files......»»
New Ghostbusters: Afterlife trailer teases return of lots of familiar faces
A gang of mini Stay-Puft marshmallow men in a Walmart steals the show. Ghostbusters: Afterlife moves the setting from New York City to Summerville, Oklahoma. [credit:.....»»
Gillmor Gang: Catching Up
As the pandemic dwindled enough to get in our car with dogs, SiriusXM, and our children in the rear view mirror, we drove to South Carolina. Tina had endured the last year and almost another half while her mother languished with aging pets, her husba.....»»
Ransomware gang that hit meat supplier mysteriously vanishes from the internet
REvil, the ransomware gang that attacked meat supplier JBS Foods this spring and a major IT software vendor this month, has mysteriously vanished from the internet, according to cybersecurity experts tracking the group......»»
Ransomware Gang REvil Vanishes From Web After Biden Warning
The Russia-linked ransomware gang REvil has seemingly vanished from the dark web, where it maintains several pages documenting its activities including one called the "happy blog." From a report: It's not yet known if the sites were down temporarily.....»»
Gillmor Gang: TV Clubhouse
The Gang spends a lot of time these days on the streaming wars, so it seems appropriate that Congress wants to get into it. With Netflix’s success at overturning the structure of Hollywood’s broadcast television production and advertising process.....»»
China seizes two tonnes of smuggled pangolin scales
Customs agents in southwest China have seized 2.2 tonnes of pangolin scales and busted an endangered wildlife smuggling gang, state media reported......»»
REvil Ransomware Hits 200 Companies In MSP Supply-Chain Attack
A massive REvil ransomware attack affects multiple managed service providers and their clients through a reported Kaseya supply-chain attack. Bleeping Computer reports: Starting this afternoon, the REvil ransomware gang targeted approximately eight l.....»»
Using VMs To Hide Ransomware Attacks is Becoming More Popular
An anonymous reader shares a report: In early 2020, security researchers were baffled to discover that a ransomware gang had come up with an innovative trick that allowed it to run its payload inside virtual machines on infected hosts as a technical.....»»
A week after arrests, Cl0p ransomware group dumps new tranche of stolen data
Leak shows that, like the rest of the ransomware scourge, Cl0p isn't going away. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A week after Ukrainian police arrested criminals affiliated with the notorious Cl0p ransomware gang, Cl0p has published a fresh bat.....»»
ADATA Suffers 700 GB Data Leak In Ragnar Locker Ransomware Attack
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputing: The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang have published download links for more than 700GB of archived data stolen from Taiwanese memory and storage chip maker ADATA. A set of 13 archives, allegedl.....»»
Ukraine arrests ransomware gang in global cybercriminal crackdown
Arrests of Cl0p hacker group members adds to pressure on other countries to follow suit. Enlarge / A Colonial Pipeline facility in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Hackers last month disrupted the pipeline supplying petroleum to much of the East Coast. (.....»»
Police Bust Ransomware Gang in Ukraine
Police in Ukraine said this week they arrested members of a major ransomware gang. From a report: The arrests mark the first time a law enforcement agency has announced a mass arrest of a prolific hacker group that had extorted Americans by either en.....»»
World"s biggest meat processor JBS pays $11 million to ransomware gang
The incident took place last week, shutting down abattoirs in the US, Canada, and Australia. The company, which supplies more than a fifth of all beef in the US, said making the massive Bitcoin payment was necessary to protect customers......»»