cyberattack
Lockbit 3.0 Claims Credit for Ransomware Attack on Japanese Port
After a ransomware attack shuttered operations at container terminals at the Port of Nagoya in Japan, the Lockbit 3.0 ransomware gang claimed responsibility and demanded the port pay up. The attack on ...
MOVEit Cyberattack, The Problem with Password Rotations, Military Alert on Free Smartwatches
Several major organizations, including British Airways and the BBC, fell victim to the recent MOVEit cyberattack. We discuss the alarming trend of hackers targeting trusted suppliers to gain access to customer data, ...
A Guide to Articulating Risk: Speaking the Language of the Stakeholder
The role of the modern CISO today is just as much about managing technical solutions as it is about communicating risk to key decision-making stakeholders. In their daily roles, most C-suite executives ...
A Policy of All Privileged Accounts – Overkill or Common Sense?
An attacker accessing a privileged account doesn’t begin with a root or administrator account. An attack on a privileged account usually starts with the theft of an average user’s credentials. Passwords are ...
MOVEit Attack Strikes US and State Governments
A global attack campaign fueled by a vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer, a popular file transfer application, has now struck the U.S. Department of Energy, several other U.S. agencies and a spate of ...
Cybercrime Predictions from an Industry Veteran: Dan Schaupner
Predicting the future of cybercrime has never been easy ...
Cybercrime Predictions from an Industry Veteran: Dr. Chase Cunningham
Cybersecurity—and particularly cybercrime—has always been a volatile field ...
The 2 BIG Exceptions to Financially Motivated Cybercrime
Cybercrime is all about money… except when it isn’t ...
The FBI Could Help Retrieve Your Data After a Ransomware Attack
To pay or not to pay? That is the question leadership and security teams ask whenever they deal with a ransomware attack. The recommendation from the FBI is to not pay, stating ...
Two Years After Colonial Pipeline, What Have We Learned?
The second anniversary of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack has come and gone, and while many lessons have been learned and assimilated, there’s still more we can do. Security Boulevard reached out ...
