1. Trend of states prohibiting ransomware payments is spreading
Increasingly, state legislatures have made it illegal to use public funds to pay ransom in ransomware cases. This reflects an ideological view that, if everyone agrees not to pay ransom, ransomware attacks will subside because they are unlikely to be successful for the ransomware threat actor. Read more »
2. U.S. DoJ charges CEO for dealing $1B in fake Cisco gear
Fraudster allegedly passed off refurbished, modified Cisco equipment as new to hospitals, schools, and even the military. Read more »
3. Ransomware group switching programming languages from Go to Rust
Microsoft security researchers have discovered new variants of the one-year-old Hive ransomware that was written in the Go programming language but has been re-written in Rust. Read more »
4. Privacy Win: Google to delete sensitive medical locations from user history
Google announced it will immediately delete location history when users visit sensitive medical facilities like abortion clinics following the overturn of Roe v. Wade in the United States last month. Read more »
5. Mangatoon data breach exposes data from 23 million accounts
Comic reading platform Mangatoon has suffered a data breach that exposed information belonging to 23 million user accounts after a hacker stole it from an unsecured Elasticsearch database. Read more »
