The Week in Ransomware – October 14th 2022 – Bitcoin Trickery October 14, 2022 This week’s news is action-packed, with police tricking ransomware into releasing keys to victims calling ransomware operations liars. The most
Student jailed for hacking female classmates’ email, Snapchat accounts October 14, 2022 On Thursday, a Puerto Rico judge sentenced a former University of Puerto Rico (UPR) student to 13 months in prison
Police tricks DeadBolt ransomware out of 155 decryption keys October 14, 2022 The Dutch National Police, in collaboration with cybersecurity firm Responders.NU, obtained 155 decryption keys from the DeadBolt ransomware gang by
Microsoft: New Prestige ransomware targets orgs in Ukraine, Poland October 14, 2022 Microsoft says new Prestige ransomware is being used to target transportation and logistics organizations in Ukraine and Poland in ongoing
INTERPOL arrests ‘Black Axe’ cybercrime syndicate members October 14, 2022 INTERPOL has arrested over 70 suspected members of the ‘Black Axe’ cybercrime syndicate, with two believed to be responsible for
Microsoft Office 365 email encryption could expose message content October 14, 2022 Security researchers at WithSecure, previously F-Secure Business, found that it is possible to partially or fully infer the contents of
Australian police secret agents exposed in Colombian data leak October 14, 2022 Identities of secret agents working for the Australian Federal Police (AFP) have been exposed after hackers leaked documents stolen from
Microsoft is rebranding ‘Office’ to Microsoft 365 October 14, 2022 After 32 years, Microsoft has begun to kill off the Microsoft Office brand, with plans to rebrand its Office.com and