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7 Dec 2021, 6:28 am by rainey Reitman
Security researchers, on the other hand, need to provide that information to companies without having it start off with sounding like a ransom demand, basically. [read post]
6 Dec 2021, 8:08 am by Mary Brooks, Paul Rosenzweig
What if it were possible to predict, with a measurable degree of accuracy, what actions the U.S. government and private sector will undertake over the course of the next year to harden the United States’ overall cybersecurity posture? [read post]
2 Dec 2021, 6:12 am
We previously wrote in the post linked here about OFAC’s September 2021 actions designed to counter ransomware, principally by discouraging ransomware payments, and recommended guidelines for companies considering whether or not to pay the ransom. [read post]
29 Nov 2021, 11:12 am
  He said that he'd been kidnapped by members of the Nueva Generación gang in Mexico, who cut off one of his fingers and sent it to his wife with a ransom demand. [read post]
24 Nov 2021, 3:30 am by John Jenkins
If victims do not pay a ransom quickly, ransomware actors will threaten to disclose this information publicly, causing potential investor backlash. [read post]
22 Nov 2021, 7:56 am by Alvaro Marañon, Stephanie Pell
These funds allegedly represent the proceeds of a May 8 ransom payment to individuals in a group known as DarkSide, which targeted Colonial Pipeline, resulting in the company shutting down its operations and thus taking U.S. critical infrastructure offline. [read post]
Remarkably, on June 7, the DOJ seized 63.7 bitcoins (valued at about $2.3 million) in cryptocurrency ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline. [read post]
19 Nov 2021, 3:41 am by Rob Robinson
In 2020 the NCSC observed the evolving model of criminals exfiltrating data before encrypting victim networks; data which they then threatened to leak unless the ransom was paid (known as double extortion). [read post]
18 Nov 2021, 11:02 am by Emily Dai
Els said that although the U.S. government has relaxed a few policies about paying ransom for families of U.S. hostages, some challenges still remain. [read post]
16 Nov 2021, 9:43 am by Dmitri Alperovitch, Ian Ward
The group continued working with their affiliates to distribute decryption keys to victims who had paid their ransom. [read post]
15 Nov 2021, 7:20 am by Nathan Dorn
There, Bovet discusses legal and moral principles, issues of strategy and efficacy versus custom and virtue; he touches on rules governing coats of arms and trial by combat; he relates to various practical aspects of war, including compensation for combatants, ransom and relations with non-combatants. [read post]
13 Nov 2021, 8:43 pm by Mark D. Rasch
Once that worked, EMOI paid the ransom, obtained control over their data and verified that it was safe. [read post]
9 Nov 2021, 9:05 pm by News Desk
Upon visiting either website, victims were given a ransom demand and provided a virtual currency address to use to pay the ransom. [read post]
9 Nov 2021, 9:05 pm by News Desk
Upon visiting either website, victims were given a ransom demand and provided a virtual currency address to use to pay the ransom. [read post]
9 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm by Guest Blogger
Ransomware As you might have guessed, the defining feature of ransomware is the word “ransom. [read post]
9 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm by Guest Blogger
Ransomware As you might have guessed, the defining feature of ransomware is the word “ransom. [read post]
Of the four leading mandatory reporting bills, The Ransom Disclosure Act (S. 2943) could have the furthest reach but is more limited in scope. [read post]
 Authorities seized $6.1 million in ransom payments tied to Polyanin’s REvil ransomware attacks. [read post]