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  • Cybersecurity Snapshots #17 - DoppelPaymer Ransomware Gang

    Cybersecurity Snapshots #17 - DoppelPaymer Ransomware Gang  

  • Spotlight on Lablet Research #17 - Scalable Trust Semantics and Infrastructure

    Spotlight on Lablet Research #17 - Project: Scalable Trust Semantics and Infrastructure  

  • "Ransomware Group Threatens DC Cops with Informant Data Leak"

    Washington DC’s police department has reportedly been hit by Russian-speaking ransomware threat actors who claim to have stolen sensitive information.  The group behind the attack is called Babuk.  The Babuk group has given the police three…

  • "Ransomware Extortion Demands Are Growing, and so Is the Downtime Caused by Attacks"

    The average ransom paid by ransomware victims has increased as cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities in software and remote desktop protocol (RDP) services. According to Coveware's Quarterly Ransomware Report, the average ransom payment in the first…

  • "Justice Department to Launch Ransomware Taskforce"

    Ransomware authors are continuing to get better at encrypting victims' sensitive information, demanding ransoms, and threatening to leak targets' data online. There has also been an increase in ransom demands, with multiple ransomware groups…

  • "Hackers Have Been Exploiting 'Dangerous' macOS Bug to Run Malware Campaign"

    Hackers have found a way to evade the latest macOS protections. Apple has released macOS Big Sur 11.3, an update to the Mac operating system. The update addresses a flaw that exists in macOS Catalina 10.15 and macOS Big Sur. The exploitation of this flaw…

  • "Online Music Marketplace Suffers Data Breach"

    A cybersecurity consultant discovered millions of retailers' records online in an unsecured Elasticsearch server on April 5th.  The consultant was unsure whom the data belonged to. However, upon closer inspection, the consultant noticed many 'test'…

  • "CISA's NRMC Fighting Unique 5G Security Risks"

    The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) National Risk Management Center (NRMC) is working to assess and identify security risks for 5G wireless services. Dan Dagher, supply chain risk management initiative lead at NRMC, recently…

  • "The UK Launches Free Cybersecurity Training for School Teachers and Staff"

    The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), which is a part of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), has launched free cybersecurity training for school teachers and staff in the UK to help British schools improve their defense against…

  • "Cyber-attack on NBA Team"

    The Housten Rockets have hired cybersecurity experts after an unknown adversary tried to install ransomware on the basketball franchise's internal computer systems but was largely unsuccessful.  Cyber defenses put in place by the team before the…

  • "NIST RPKI Deployment Monitor"

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a new version of its test and measurement tool developed to monitor the dynamics of the global Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) as well as the effects of RPKI Route Origin…

  • "US Cyber Games Launches Cyber Open and Combine"

    The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has teamed up with marketing and cybersecurity games company Katzcy to launch the first US Cyber Games. Consisting of the US…