Cybercrime

The FBI warns entities of a rise in Ragnar Locker ransomware, where hackers gain a foothold on the network, perform reconnaissance, and steal data before deploying the final attack.

Authorities have prevented around €40 million in fraud losses thanks to a three-month long operation targeting dark web carding forums, claims crime agency Europol.

The most successful cyberattacks are designed to bypass email gateway defenses using social engineering, fraud and other strategies.

Despite recent takedown efforts, the operators behind the malicious botnet are back with a new module called 'TrickBoot' that detects UEFI/BIOS firmware vulnerabilities.

An unknown nation state actor is attempting to disrupt the supply of coronavirus vaccines

Interpol issues a global alert to law enforcement as the UK becomes one of the first countries to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for use

Defenders will see heightened levels of cyber crime next year as criminals pivot their attacks from data encryption to exfiltration

A spokesperson for K12 told SearchSecurity that based on the current status of the investigation, the attack did not affect student devices or school networks.

UK Members of Parliament (MPs) have been targeted by a 60% year-on-year increase in cyber-attacks so far in 2020, according to new data from Parliament Street

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/mps-bombarded-three-million-email/#.X8D9e3jlADk.twitter

Sophos principal research scientist Chet Wisniewski explains the presence of 'weight classes' in ransomware and offers his thoughts on its future.

https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/252492255/Sophos-Ransomware-heavyweights-demand-sky-high-payments