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Minneapolis Schools are Facing a Cyber Ransom of $1 Million

The Minneapolis public school district includes approximately 100 primary and secondary public schools. Between the many different schools, approximately 36,000 students are served by about 1,500 teachers. The district is currently suffering from a ransomware attack supposedly and is being extorted for a $1 Million payment by a ransomware gang.

Seamless Response to Ransomware and a Cyber Resilience Upgrade

A major logistics company was hit by a ransomware attack at a time when it was reviewing and upgrading its cybersecurity defense. Kroll provided seamless incident response to enable the company to act quickly to mitigate and minimize the damage caused by the attack. The company also deployed Kroll Responder, Kroll’s award-winning Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solution, giving it comprehensive 24/7 visibility and management of threats and enhancing its long-term cyber resilience.

How to Prevent SVB-Related Social Engineering Attacks

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) experienced a rapid implosion last week after a historic bank run. While many are discussing the immediate financial impacts to the bank accounts — which were largely held by venture capitalists, investors, and technology business owners — and the larger impact on banking in general, it’s important to note that there will be a secondary impact. Hackers and scammers are going to take advantage of the confusion to launch a barrage of social engineering attacks.

CrowdStrike Discovers First-Ever Dero Cryptojacking Campaign Targeting Kubernetes

CrowdStrike has discovered the first-ever Dero cryptojacking operation targeting Kubernetes infrastructure. Dero is a relatively new and privacy-focused cryptocurrency that uses directed acyclic graph (DAG) technology to claim complete anonymity of its transactions. The combination of anonymity and the higher rewards ratio makes it potentially lucrative to cryptojacking groups compared to Monero, which is commonly used cryptocurrency by attackers or groups running miner operations.

Coffee with Jim - Securing Against Supply Chain Cyber Attacks

Following the ransomware attack on US IT firm Kaseya, join us for a chat about the ever-increasing need to secure ourselves successfully against not only direct ransomware attacks, but those that affect us through our supply chains. An estimated 200+ firms have been crippled by the attack on Kaseya, simply because they use Kaseya’s software. The implication of this is that it can feasibly happen to any aspect of your supply chain, so if cyber security is not high on your board’s list of priorities, it really should be. How could the attack on Kaseya, and other supply chain attacks, have been avoided? How can you reduce the probability of it happening to your own organisation? And crucially, how can you make the solution cost effective?

Telegram of Fortune: Credential Phishing

In recent years, phishing attacks have become increasingly sophisticated and are now being conducted through various messaging platforms such as Telegram. Telegram is a popular messaging app that allows users to send messages, photos, videos, and other files over the internet. It also provides APIs that allow developers to create custom bots and applications. Unfortunately, these same APIs can be used by malicious actors to exfiltrate credentials successfully phished from attacks.

Over 9 Million AT&T Customers Exposed in Recent Cyber Attack

AT&T is a massive telecommunications company with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas. The company is known as the largest telecommunications company in the world according to its revenue, and it is the third-largest mobile phone service provider in the United States. The company recently suffered an attack that exposed some of its customer data to hackers and may have put customers at risk. The attack wasn't on AT&T directly but on one of the company's external marketing vendors instead.

5 Steps to Improve Your Cyber Attack Response

When cybersecurity experts speak about a cyber attack, they often refer to actions taken “left of boom” and “right of boom.” In this analogy, the boom is the breach, and the actions organizations take in the aftermath, such as utilizing their incident response plan or working with their cyber insurance company on a claim, are what happens “right of boom.” But it’s the things that happen “left of boom” that can make the difference between proactive and

Supply Chain Attacks: What You Need to Know

Every day, thousands of companies download updates to their software. With a click of a button, they can walk away and return the next morning with everything reorganized and in order. While a staple of modern life, this action is no longer completely harmless. It is now one of many attacks that bad actors use to access systems and execute supply chain attacks.