Today, it’s challenging to ignore ransomware attacks. The F.B.I.’s Internet Crime Report shows that local reports of such threats increased by 20% in 2020. Between 2019 and 2020… Read More

Well, well, well, the second day of HexCon23 has wrapped up on a high. The sense of excitement and energy back here is palpable. Today saw an impressive lineup of sessions covering cybersecu… Read More

Microsoft has uncovered a new version of the BlackCat ransomware that incorporates the Impacket networking framework and the Remcom hacking tool. These additions enable the ransomware to spr… Read More

The man in charge of protecting Canadians from malicious hackers says it is vital for Canada and the United States to keep working closely together on cybersecurity. Sami Khoury, the head… Read More

Clop, a Russian-speaking hacking group specialising in ransomware, has its own website. Yes, this is a thing — criminals openly encouraging their victims to negotiate a ransom for th… Read More

In a recent resurgence, a financially driven cybercriminal collective known as FIN7 has reemerged, according to Microsoft threat analysts. These analysts have identified a connection between… Read More

Constellation Software, a Canadian company offering diverse software solutions, confirmed a security breach on Thursday. The breach resulted from an attack by malicious actors who accessed s… Read More

Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, also known as Wazawaka, m1x, Boriselcin, and Uhodiransomwar, is a Russian native who is 30 years old. The United States Justice Department has charged Matveev for… Read More

The ex-Conti ransomware gang has joined forces with the notorious FIN7 threat actors to release a malicious software family dubbed ‘Domino.’ This fresh breed of malware compri… Read More

This time last year, we were optimistic. It seemed like the tide was turning on ransomware after the U.S. government scored a handful of wins against the cybercriminals carrying out these in… Read More

The US Department of State has upped the ante in the Biden administration’s ongoing battle against ransomware operators, announcing a reward of up to $10m (£7.4/€8.7m) for… Read More

Cyber-crime gangs have had a 40% drop in earnings as victims are refusing to pay ransoms, researchers say.Cryptocurrency experts at Chainalysis say ransomware groups extorted at least $457m… Read More

By: Barbara Rubel, MBA, FRBMASenior Vice President, Marketing & Client Servies… Read More

Updated on 2022-12-12 Back in 2020, several security firms claimed that a financially-motivated hacking group named Silence might have connections to EvilCorp, a Russian cybercrime cartel th… Read More

On Friday, the radical transparency group DDoSecrets released hundreds of hours of police helicopter surveillance footage. It’s unclear who originally obtained the data, or what th… Read More

The U.S. Department of Defense's internet-defending Cyber Command teamed with "a foreign government" in two operations which shut down a major overseas ransomware group by hijacking its serv… Read More

MFA Fatigue: Hackers’ new favorite tactic in high-profile breaches With the advent of multi-factor authentication, especially through employees’ sm… Read More

Bandai Namco, the Japanese video game publisher behind titles including Pac-Man, Tekken and Elden Ring, has admitted that hackers accessed its systems and potentially made off with customer… Read More

This is kind of a trick question, but – they all do. However, they do so in different ways, so there are different things to be aware of; especially now that attacks are getting so adv… Read More

A prevalent attitude I still see among many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) is that if you have security on the endpoint – Anti-Virus or Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)… Read More