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Infosecurity Magazine · · Critical severity
The cybersecurity workers used their knowledge and skills to conduct ransomware attacks for notorious gang, rather than protect victims against them
The Hacker News · · High severity
Threat hunters are warning that the cybercriminal operation known as VECT 2.0 acts more like a wiper than a ransomware due to a critical flaw in its encryption implementation across Windows, Linux, and ESXi variants that renders...
The Hacker News · · Critical severity
Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the sentencing of two cybersecurity professionals to four years each in prison for their role in facilitating BlackCat ransomware attacks in 2023. Ryan Goldberg, 40, of Georgia, and...
Krebs on Security · · High severity
An elusive hacker who went by the handle “ UNKN ” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both...
SecurityWeek · · High severity
Ryan Goldberg of Georgia and Kevin Martin of Texas were each sentenced to four years in prison. The post Two US Security Experts Sentenced to Prison for Helping Ransomware Gang appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Checkpoint Research · · High severity
Key Takeaways Check Point Research discovers that the VECT 2.0 ransomware permanently destroys “large files” rather than encrypting them . A critical flaw in the encryption implementation, identical across all three platform variants (...
Schneier on Security · · High severity
Someone pleaded guilty to secretly working for a ransomware gang as he negotiated ransomware payments for clients.
BleepingComputer · · Critical severity
Two former employees of cybersecurity incident response companies Sygnia and DigitalMint were sentenced to four years in prison each for targeting U.S. companies in BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks.
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