The hackers have been hacked - a prolific international ransomware operation has been shut down by US, German and Dutch officials. The criminal network, Hive, is said to have targeted over 1,500 victims worldwide in the past 18 months and extorted over $100 million. FBI director Christopher Wray said the operation had recovered over 1,300 decryption keys for ... Show More
Jan 2023
A hacking group called Hive has been hacked by the US authorities
The hackers have been hacked - a prolific international ransomware operation has been shut down by US, German and Dutch officials. The criminal network, Hive, is said to have targeted over 1,500 victims worldwide in the past 18 months and extorted over $100 million. FBI director ... Show More
56m 52s
Jun 2021
Who is Hacking the U.S. Economy?
<p>In the past few weeks, some of the biggest industries in the U.S. have been held up by cyberattacks.</p><p>The first big infiltration was at Colonial Pipeline, a major conduit of gas, jet fuel and diesel to the East Coast. Then, J.B.S., one of the world’s largest beef supplier ... Show More
22m 31s
Nov 2021
Trojan Source--a threat to the software supply chain. Ransomware goes to influence operations school. Triple extortion? Criminal target selection.
Researchers describe Trojan Source, a hard-to-detect threat to the software supply chain. A ransomware gang takes a page from the information operator’s book. From double extortion to triple extortion, as other ransomware gangs add distributed denial-of-service to encryption and ... Show More
27m 56s
Sep 2023
What up in the underworld’s C2C markets. An update on the Sony hack claims. Notes on cyberespionage, from Russia, China, and parts unknown. And there’s a market for bugs.
A Joint Advisory warns of Beijing's "BlackTech" threat activity. ShadowSyndicate is a new ransomware as a service operation. A Smishing Triad in the UAE. Openfire flaw actively exploited against servers. AtlasCross is technically capable and, above all, "cautious." Xenomorph malw ... Show More
33m 28s