Want Some BidenCash? This is not a political statement – at least not by me. There is a new carding site that uses the President’s name and likeness to sell stolen credit card data for as little as 15 cents each. Last week the admins gave away a CSV file with names, addresses, phone numbers, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ransomware Morphs Again We know that ransomware has gone through a lot of iterations over the last couple of years as hackers try to maximize their revenue. The BlackCat group is now creating public websites for each victim company and has indexed the data to make it easy to search. I guess this means that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I guess HHS wants to be cool, so rather than having a press conference where people can ask embarrassing questions, they are going to release the proposed changes via a prerecorded video – sometime this summer. These new rules will apply to covered entities (like doctors) and business associates (like IT providers). Part of what […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Anonymous Seems to be doing Better Against Russia than Past Efforts Anonymous, the hacking collective, historically has made claims about how effective they are that have not panned out. However, against Russia, they seem to be pretty effective. Whether that means that they are more focused now or instead, that Russia’s defenses are not very […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yet Another Russian Military “Asset” Catches Fire Russian jet engine design hub Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute which is outside Moscow, did a “halt and catch fire” due to a fire at the electrical substation which powered the former design center. Score one for Ukraine, according to Russia. Russia claims it is the world’s largest scientific research […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As part of CIRCIA (Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act) in the just passed omnibus spending bill, CISA is required to stand up a Ransomware Task Force. Jen Easterly, head of CISA, having just won the battle that requires companies to report breaches and ransomware payments to her rather than the FBI (which pissed […]
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