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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000
In a twist, a massive trove of stolen bitcoins will repay the dark web market creator’s $183 million restitution.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 13:09:39 +0000
KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group in the week leading up to the arrest of its most active members last month. The logs show LAPSUS$ breached T-Mobile multiple times in March, stealing source code for a range of company projects. T-Mobile says no customer or government information was stolen in the intrusion. LAPSUS$ is known for stealing data and then demanding a ransom not to publish or sell it. But the leaked chats indicate this mercenary activity was of little interest to the tyrannical teenage leader of LAPSUS$, whose obsession with stealing and leaking proprietary computer source code from the world’s largest tech companies ultimately led to the group’s undoing.
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Credit to Author: Rich Beckett| Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 13:00:17 +0000
Sophos Cloud Optix is now available to all Sophos customers and partners from our Sophos Central EU data center in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Credit to Author: Joe Levy| Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 13:00:10 +0000
Expanding Sophos’ Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem to Include Telemetry from Third-Party Security and IT Solutions
Read MoreCredit to Author: Paul Gillin| Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 04:30:00 -0700
Human beings are natural pack rats, as evidenced by the 2.3 billion square feet of self-storage space that’s in use in the U.S. Fear of getting rid of stuff even has a name: disposophobia.
Keeping every pair of shoes your kids have ever worn isn’t a problem for anyone except those with whom you share living space.
But the same rules don’t apply to data.
All industries have records retention guidelines spelled out in compliance rules. They are usually strictly enforced for regulated companies, and firms that run afoul of them can be punished.
Credit to Author: Kaspersky Team| Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 10:37:41 +0000
Kaspersky talks about new steps toward information transparency.
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Credit to Author: victoriatownsley| Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 10:04:23 +0000
Sophos employees are being encouraged to commit to making one change in their work or home life this year that will have a positive impact on the environment.
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Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 03:00:00 -0700
Last summer, law enforcement officials contacted both Apple and Meta, demanding customer data in “emergency data requests.” The companies complied. Unfortunately, the “officials” turned out to be hackers affiliated with a cyber-gang called “Recursion Team.”
Roughly three years ago, the CEO of a UK-based energy company got a call from the CEO of the company’s German parent company instructing him to wire a quarter of a million dollars to a Hungarian “supplier.” He complied. Sadly, the German “CEO” was in fact a cybercriminal using deepfake audio technology to spoof the other man’s voice.