The Week In Ransomware – October 15th 2021 – Disrupting Ransoms This week, senior officials from over thirty countries held virtual conferences on disrupting ransomware operations and attacks. Russia and China were left out of these talks, even though there are signs that Russia has begun to crack down on Read more…
US links $5.2 billion Worth Of Bitcoin Transactions To Ransomware The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has identified roughly $5.2 billion worth of outgoing Bitcoin transactions likely tied to the top 10 most commonly reported ransomware variants. FinCEN identified 177 CVC (convertible virtual currency) wallet addresses used for Read more…
New Windows 10 KB5006670 Update Breaks Network Printing Windows 10 users and administrators report widescale network printing issues after installing the KB5006670 cumulative update and other updates released this week. On Tuesday, Microsoft released Windows updates to fix bugs and security vulnerabilities as part of the October 2021 Patch Tuesday. These Read more…
Twitch Downplays This Month’s Hack, Says It Had Minimal Impact In an update regarding this month’s security incident, Twitch downplayed the breach saying that it had minimal impact and only affected a small number of users. “We’ve undergone a thorough review of the information included in the files exposed and Read more…
Accenture Confirms Data Breach After August Ransomware Attack Global IT consultancy giant Accenture confirmed that LockBit ransomware operators stole data from its systems during an attack that hit the company’s systems in August 2021. This was revealed in the company’s financial report for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year, which ended Read more…
Russian Cybercrime Gang Targets Finance Firms With Stealthy Macros A new phishing campaign dubbed MirrorBlast is deploying weaponized Excel documents that are extremely difficult to detect to compromise financial service organizations The most notable feature of MirrorBlast is the low detection rates of the campaign’s malicious Excel documents by security Read more…
Brave Web Browser Will Add Bounce Tracking Privacy Protection Brave, the privacy-conscious web browser, has announced plans to introduce additional privacy protections against ‘bounce tracking,’ a newer form of tracking that is not currently blocked by the browser. The new system, which Brave’s team calls “debouncing”, addresses the bounce tracking Read more…
Microsoft Tests Smarter Delivery For Windows 11 Update Improvements Microsoft is testing a new method to deliver Windows update improvements starting with Insiders in the Dev Channel running Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22478. The new feature, dubbed Update Stack Package, will deliver improvements to the update experience outside of major Read more…
Governments Worldwide To Crack Down On Ransomware Payment Channels Senior officials from 31 countries and the European Union said that their governments would take action to disrupt the cryptocurrency payment channels used by ransomware gangs to finance their operations. The joint statement was issued following the virtual Counter-Ransomware Initiative meetings facilitated Read more…
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