Cyberlaw
LockBit Hacker Sentenced To 4 Years Jail Plus Fined $860K
Recent reports about legal proceedings, a 34-year-old Russian-Canadian national, Mikhail Vasiliev, has been handed a sentence of almost four years in Canadian prison. Vasiliev’s involvement in the global ransomware scheme known as ...
Apple OTP FAIL: ‘MFA Bomb’ Warning — Locks Accounts, Wipes iPhones
Rethink different: First, fatigue frightened users with multiple modal nighttime notifications. Next, call and pretend to be Apple support ...
Revealed: Facebook’s “Incredibly Aggressive” Alleged Theft of Snapchat App Data
Meta MITM IAAP SSL bump: Zuck ordered “Project Ghostbusters”—with criminal consequences, says class action lawsuit ...
Telegram Privacy Nightmare: Don’t Opt In to P2PL
Scary SMS shenanigans: Avoid Telegram’s new “Peer-To-Peer Login” program if you value your privacy or your cellular service ...
US, UK Accuse China of Years-Long Cyberespionage Campaign
The United States, the UK, and other countries this week accused a state-sponsored Chinese threat group of running a massive global hacking campaign for more than a decade that targeted political figures, ...
The Professionalism of Cybercrime
In decades past, cybercriminals were a diverse bunch. From hacktivists and hobbyists to grudge-bearing employees and opportunists, organizations suffered at the hands of a broad range of threat actors with a full ...
Cybersecurity a Top Priority for Audit Committees
Audit committees consider cybersecurity their primary oversight focus as the SEC enforces tougher cyberattack disclosure regulations ...
China Steals Defense Secrets ‘on Industrial Scale’
UNC5174 ❤ UNC302: CVSS 10 and 9.8 vulnerabilities exploited by Chinese threat actor for People’s Republic ...
Tax Scams Ramping Up as the April 15 Deadline Approaches
With the IRS deadline only weeks away, businesses and individuals are racing to get their taxes filed, and bad actors are doing what they can to keep pace with them. Both Microsoft ...
RaaS Groups Go Recruiting in Wake of LockBit, BlackCat Takedowns
The effects of the recent high-profile disruptions of LockBit’s and BlackCat ransomware operations by law enforcement agencies are rippling through the dark web, with smaller threat gangs looking to scoop up the ...
