A Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering

Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM have released a new AI model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it's trained on—that aims to spot the “shape” of bitcoin money laundering.

Hackers Are Using Developing Countries For Ransomware Practice

Cryptojacker Arrested For Defrauding Cloud Providers Of $3.5 Million

Ransomware Group Claims Theft Of Data From Chipmaker Nexperia

LockBit Copycat DarkVault Spurs Rebranding Rumor

Bing Ad Posing As NordVPN Aims To Spread SecTopRAT Malware

Change Healthcare Faces Second Ransomware Dilemma

Security Pioneer Ross Anderson Dies At 67

Cryptocurrency and Blockchain security due diligence: A guide to hedge risk

Blockchain technology has experienced remarkable adoption in recent years, driven by its use across a broad spectrum of institutions, governments, retail investors, and users. However, this surge in… Read more on Cisco Blogs

Major Linux Distributions Impacted By XZ Utils Backdoor

Ubuntu Will Manually Review Snap Store After Crypto Wallet Scams

Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison

Sam Bankman-Fried's Sentencing Hearing Over FTX Fraud Begins Today

Ransomware Can Mean Life Or Death At Hospital, But DEF CON Hackers Have A Plan

GoFetch - Breaking Constant-Time Cryptographic Implementations Using Data Memory-Dependent Prefetchers

Ransomware, RATs, And More Deployed On Compromised TeamCity Servers

STOP Ransomware Gains Stealthier Variant

Banish OEM Self-Signed Certs And Roll Your Own LetsEncrypt

Member Of LockBit Ransomware Group Sentenced To 4 Years In Prison

Bitcoin Fog Operator Convicted Of Laundering $400M In Bitcoins On Darknet

Danchev's EXIF Analysis Of Conti Ransomware Gang Marketing Material

EquiLend Ransomware Attack Leads To Data Breach

Binance’s Top Crypto Crime Investigator Is Being Detained in Nigeria

Tigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held in Abuja without passports for two weeks.

Ransomware Attack Causes British Library To Push The Cloud Button

Bitcoin Briefly Rises To Record High Over $70,000

Change Healthcare Hacker Linked To Espionage Gangs

Cisco Patches High Severity Vulnerabilities In VPN Product

Belgian Ale Legend Duvel’s Brewery Borked As Ransomware Halts Production

Anatomy Of A BlackCat Attack Through The Eyes Of Incident Response

Uncle Sam Intervenes As Change Healthcare Ransomware Fiasco Creates Mayhem

Ransomware Ban Backers Insist Thugs Must Be Cut Off From Payday

Bitcoin Scorches Past $57,000 As Big Buyers Flock In

China Warns Of Fake Digital Currency Wallets Fleecing Netizens

Lockbit Cybercrime Gang Says It Is Back Online Following Bust

ConnectWise Exploit Could Spur Ransomware Free-For-All

Threat Actors Quick To Abuse SSH-Snake Worm-Like Tool

Apple Adds Post-Quantum Encryption To iMessage

LockBit Leaks Expose Almost 200 Affiliates And Custom Malware

Cactus Ransomware Claims 1.5TB Of Schneider Electric Data

New Migo Malware Targeting Redis Servers for Cryptocurrency Mining

A novel malware campaign has been observed targeting Redis servers for initial access with the ultimate goal of mining cryptocurrency on compromised Linux hosts. "This particular campaign involves the use of a number of novel system weakening techniques against the data store itself," Cado security researcher Matt Muir said in a technical report. The cryptojacking attack is facilitated

Law Enforcement Hacks LockBit Ransomware, Delivers Major Blow To Operation

LockBit Ransomware Operation Shut Down; Criminals Arrested; Decryption Keys Released

The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) on Tuesday confirmed that it obtained LockBit's source code as well as a wealth of intelligence pertaining to its activities and their affiliates as part of a dedicated task force called Operation Cronos. "Some of the data on LockBit's systems belonged to victims who had paid a ransom to the threat actors, evidencing that even when a ransom is paid, it

LockBit Ransomware's Darknet Domains Seized in Global Law Enforcement Raid

Update: The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) has confirmed the takedown of LockBit infrastructure. Read here for more details.An international law enforcement operation has led to the seizure of multiple darknet domains operated by LockBit, one of the most prolific ransomware groups, marking the latest in a long list of digital takedowns. While the full extent of the effort, codenamed 

Feds Post $15 Million Bounty For Info On ALPHV/BlackCat Ransomware Crew

How Businesses Can Safeguard Their Communication Channels Against Hackers

Efficient communication is a cornerstone of business success. Internally, making sure your team communicates seamlessly helps you avoid friction losses, misunderstandings, delays, and overlaps. Externally, frustration-free customer communication is directly correlated to a positive customer experience and higher satisfaction.  However, business communication channels are also a major target

CISA Warning: Akira Ransomware Exploiting Cisco ASA/FTD Vulnerability

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a now-patched security flaw impacting Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports that it's being likely exploited in Akira ransomware attacks. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2020-

Why We Must Democratize Cybersecurity

With breaches making the headlines on an almost weekly basis, the cybersecurity challenges we face are becoming visible not only to large enterprises, who have built security capabilities over the years, but also to small to medium businesses and the broader public. While this is creating greater awareness among smaller businesses of the need to improve their security posture, SMBs are often

Total Amount Invested In Bitcoin Back Above $1 Trillion

Deepfake Proofing The President: What Is Cryptographic Verification?

Ransomware Attack Hits Dozens Of Romanian Hospitals

Bumblebee Malware Returns with New Tricks, Targeting U.S. Businesses

The infamous malware loader and initial access broker known as Bumblebee has resurfaced after a four-month absence as part of a new phishing campaign observed in February 2024. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint said the activity targets organizations in the U.S. with voicemail-themed lures containing links to OneDrive URLs. "The URLs led to a Word file with names such as "

Korean Eggheads Crack Rhysida Ransomware And Release Free Decryptor Tool

Glupteba Botnet Evades Detection with Undocumented UEFI Bootkit

The Glupteba botnet has been found to incorporate a previously undocumented Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit feature, adding another layer of sophistication and stealth to the malware. "This bootkit can intervene and control the [operating system] boot process, enabling Glupteba to hide itself and create a stealthy persistence that can be extremely difficult to

PikaBot Resurfaces with Streamlined Code and Deceptive Tactics

The threat actors behind the PikaBot malware have made significant changes to the malware in what has been described as a case of "devolution." "Although it appears to be in a new development cycle and testing phase, the developers have reduced the complexity of the code by removing advanced obfuscation techniques and changing the network communications," Zscaler ThreatLabz researcher Nikolaos

Ivanti Discloses 5th Vulnerability, Doesn't Credit Researchers

ExpressVPN User Data Exposed Due To Bug

Uncle Sam Sweetens The Pot With $15M Bounty On Hive Ransomware Gang Members

New macOS Backdoor Linked To Prominent Ransomware Groups

Raspberry Pi Pico Cracks BitLocker In Under A Minute

Crypto Ransom Attack Payments Hit Record $1 Billion In 2023