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How Do You Get Ransomware?

You must have known enough that ransomware has emerged as the most prevalent malicious software that kidnaps your data, locks your file, and...

Healthcare Still Under Threat: Hackers Harvested $1 Million Ransom from Medical School

Jun 30, 2020 at 12:31 // News The University of California had to pay a $1 million ransom to...

COVID-19: Latest Security News & Commentary

Check out Dark Reading's updated, exclusive news and commentary surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. 6/29/2020Tall Order for Small Businesses: 3 Tips to Find Tailored...

Police In Spain Tracks Down Alleged Child Porn Organization Using Bitcoin Transactions

The Spanish Civil Guard arrested multiple people across the country who are allegedly involved in the distribution of child pornography. It was an...

Russian Cybercriminal Behind CardPlanet Sentenced to 9 Years

Aleksei Burkov will go to federal prison for operating two websites built to facilitate payment card fraud, hacking, and other crimes.Russian national Alexei...

Watching a $1.14 million ransomware negotiation between hackers and scientists searching for COVID-19 treatments

An anonymous tip-off to BBC News enabled them to watch in real-time as an American medical university attempted to negotiate with the hackers...

Comment: University of California paid £1 Million ransom to Cyber criminals

The University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) says it has paid cybercriminals $1.14 million (£1 million) to decrypt a “limited number of servers”...

Magento 1 reaches EOL: Merchants urged to upgrade or risk breaches, falling out of PCI DSS compliance

When Adobe released security updates for Magento last week, it warned that the Magento 1.x branch is reaching end-of-life (EOL) and support (EOS)...

How hackers extorted $1.14m from University of California, San Francisco

A leading medical-research institution working on a cure for Covid-19 has admitted it paid hackers a $1.14m (£910,000) ransom after a covert...

Wirecard’s $2 billion disappearing act

On January 7th, 1918 Harry Houdini performed his “Vanishing Elephant” illusion where he was able to make a 5 ton elephant disappear before...

Adverse media screening: a key pillar of financial crimes compliance

The scale, complexity and sophistication of financial crimes has been rapidly rising over the last decade. Technology advancements have improved banks’ and financial...

Finding The Cyberpunk In Cyberpunk 2077

In our first hands-on preview of Cyberpunk 2077, Tamoor Hussain lamented the relative lack of humanity he witnessed in the game's main questline...

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