Police Chief Will Cunningham came to work four years ago to find that his six-officer department was the victim of a crime.
Hackers had taken advantage of a weak password to break in and encrypt the files of the department in Roxana, a small town in Illinois near St. Louis, and were demanding $6,000 of bitcoin.
Read more: Ransomware Gangs Get More Aggressive Against Law Enforcement
Researchers at anti-malware vendor Kaspersky are documenting a previously unknown Windows rootkit being used in the toolkit of an APT actor currently targeting diplomatic entities in Asia and Africa.
Read more: Diplomatic Entities Targeted with New Moriya Windows Rootkit
A total of 16 cybersecurity-related acquisitions were announced in the first part of May 2021 (May 1-9).
Read more: Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 16 Deals Announced May 1-9, 2021
The massive blast radius from the Codecov supply chain attack remains shrouded in mystery as security teams continue to assess the fallout from the breach but a handful of victims are starting to publicly acknowledge possible exposure of sensitive developer secrets.
Read more: Twilio, HashiCorp Among Codecov Supply Chain Hack Victims
Four individuals from Eastern Europe have pleaded guilty in a United States court to their roles in a RICO conspiracy. Between 2008 and 2015, the four individuals provided “bulletproof hosting” services that threat actors employed for cyberattacks on entities in the United States.
Read more: Four Eastern Europeans Admit in U.S. Court to Providing Bulletproof Hosting
The pandemic, among other variables, has greatly accelerated cloud adoption for many organizations in 2021.
Read more: The Benefits of Cloud Services Far Outweigh On-Premises in 2021
Facebook-owned messaging colossus WhatsApp on Friday retreated again from its plan to force users to accept new terms which could expand data collection from its two billion users around the world.
