Business is booming for cyber extortionists. DarkSide, the hacking group that shut down a key U.S. oil pipeline earlier this month, has collected over $90 million recently in hard-to-trace Bitcoin from 47 different victims, according to the blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. The pipeline hack ended only after Colonial Pipeline Co. paid nearly $5 million in ransom to regain control […]
Hackers responsible for causing widespread disruption to the Irish health system have unexpectedly gifted it with the tool to help it recover. The Conti ransomware group was reportedly asking the health service for $20m (£14m) to restore services after the “catastrophic hack”. But now the criminals have handed over the software tool for free. The […]
On Wednesday May 12, President Biden signed an extensive executive order (EO) on improving the United States’ cybersecurity stature. The E.O. is directed at US federal departments and agencies, and federal contractors, but its impact and resultant standards will likely have a much broader impact across global critical infrastructure sectors and related technology suppliers. Influenced by a […]
People can now enter their phone numbers into a website to see if they appeared in a recent Facebook data breach. Details of more than 530 million people were leaked in a database online, largely consisting of mobile numbers. People can use the Have I Been Pwned online tool to check if their numbers or […]
Dating back to SolarWinds — the fallout to which started a few months before his administration — and continuing through the Microsoft Exchange hacking and the Colonial Pipeline shutdown, the Biden administration has been beset with wall to wall cybersecurity crises. Today, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to fight back. The long-awaited executive […]
A ransomware attack led one of the nation’s biggest fuel pipeline operators to shut down its entire network on Friday, according to the company and two U.S. officials familiar with the matter. While it is not expected to have an immediate impact on fuel supply or prices, the attack on Colonial Pipeline, which carries almost […]
The early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic had a positive impact on the cybersecurity profession, raising the profile of chief information security officers and others within their organizations, and giving them a new sense that their work and expertise were appreciated. “The overall implication will be that cybersecurity is valued at a higher level and has a better […]
TSFactory Wins Trust Award for Best Computer Forensic Solution at SC Awards 2021 We are delighted to announce that TSFactory’s RecordTS has won the Best Computer Forensic Solution Award from SC Media, the leading source of specialist information and intelligence for those working in IT security. The award highlighted the solid functionality of the RecordTS […]
Washington DC’s Metropolitan Police Department has said its computer network has been breached in a targeted cyber-attack, US media report. A ransomware group called Babuk is reportedly threatening to release sensitive data on police informants if it is not contacted within three days. The FBI is investigating the extent of the breach, US media reported, […]
Britain and its allies face a “moment of reckoning” in which secure encryption and other future technologies may no longer be “shaped and controlled by the west”, according to the head of the spy agency GCHQ. In a speech on Friday, Jeremy Fleming will say the UK has to “develop sovereign technologies” and work with […]