Governments have long warned against paying a hacker’s ransom demands, arguing that doing so only allows criminals to profit from their cyberattacks and fund the next one. There’s another reason, too: hackers are unlikely to leave you alone if you pay once, and many will come back demanding more. In a report released Wednesday, cybersecurity
Angelo Martino, a Florida man, has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for conspiring with hackers to deploy ransomware during his work as a ransomware negotiator for a US cybersecurity company. The US Department of Justice confirmed the ruling on Thursday, noting that the government seized more than $10 million in cryptocurrencies
Offering a rare glimpse into the priorities of a top spy organization, Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE) said it carried out a handful of state-sanctioned attacks last year to disrupt the operations of drug traffickers, violent extremists and a ransomware gang. The revelations in the Canadian intelligence agency’s annual report highlight some of the major
Researchers at Sysdig, a cybersecurity company, say they found a warning sign of where agent AI is headed. Sysdig’s threat research team believes it has found the first documented evidence of agent ransomware, where a large language model orchestrated a complex attack. The team named the attack “Jade Puffer.” “JadePuffer is a warning sign,” Michael
