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Credit to Author: Emma Jones| Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:00:00 +0000
Nadim Abdo, Corporate Vice President of Identity and Network Access Engineering, talks with principal software engineering manager, Huiwen Ru, on her groundbreaking work to make cloud services resilient.
The post How a leading Microsoft engineer extends culture to service resiliency appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
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Credit to Author: David Buxton| Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 15:27:38 +0000
Is the party over for the NFT gravy train, and new variant of ransomware that threatens to wipe your hard-drive
Read MoreCredit to Author: Katie McCafferty| Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 22:02:50 +0000
The activity we have observed has been attributed to a threat group that Microsoft tracks as DEV-0537, also known as LAPSUS$. DEV-0537 is known for using a pure extortion and destruction model without deploying ransomware payloads.
The post DEV-0537 criminal actor targeting organizations for data exfiltration and destruction appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:24:19 +0000
CAKETAP is a new rootkit that can run on ATM switch servers—and its not alone in its ATM attacks.
The post A new rootkit comes to an ATM near you appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 20:47:17 +0000
We look at multiple reports of Facebook users being locked out of accounts and devices because of a security mail they thought might be fake.
The post Facebook users wary of security mail find themselves locked out of accounts appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 15:27:50 +0000
Lapsus$ leaking Microsoft source code would be bad enough. Breaching Okta could be much, much worse.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:33:35 +0000
Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book “Spam Nation,” was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud. Russian authorities allege Vrublevsky operated several fraudulent SMS-based payment schemes, and facilitated money laundering for Hydra, the largest Russian darknet market. But according to information obtained by KrebsOnSecurity, it is equally likely Vrublevsky was arrested thanks to his propensity for carefully documenting the links between Russia’s state security services and the cybercriminal underground.
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Credit to Author: Chester Wisniewski| Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 15:44:34 +0000
The U.S. President releases a statement that Russia’s cyber focus may be shifting towards cyber-offensive action against Western organizations and infrastructure
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