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Seeds of Destruction: Cyber Risk Is Growing in Agriculture

The Security Ledger

In this episode of the podcast (#213): Molly Jahn of DARPA and University of Wisconsin joins us to talk about the growing cyber risk to the Food and Agriculture sector, as industry consolidation and precision agriculture combine to increase the chances of cyber disruption of food production. Read the whole entry. »

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Operation Cronos: law enforcement disrupted the LockBit operation

Security Affairs

pic.twitter.com/SvpbeslrCd — vx-underground (@vxunderground) February 19, 2024 LockBit is a prominent ransomware operation that first emerged in September 2019. Lockbit ransomware group administrative staff has confirmed with us their websites have been seized.

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US GOV OFFERS A REWARD OF UP TO $15M FOR INFO ON LOCKBIT GANG MEMBERS AND AFFILIATES

Security Affairs

government offers rewards of up to $15 million for information that could lead to the identification or location of LockBit ransomware gang members and affiliates. LockBit is a prominent ransomware operation that first emerged in September 2019. ” reads the press release published by the U.S.

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Sodinokibi ransomware gang launches auction site to sell stolen data

Security Affairs

In May 2019, threat actors were observed exploiting recently patched critical Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerability to deliver the Sodinokibi ransomware to organizations. The Sodinokibi ransomware operators use exploits to compromise the target’s network and infect the largest number of computers as possible.

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Hunting the ICEFOG APT group after years of silence

Security Affairs

[link] — Ashley Shen (@ashley_shen_920) June 3, 2019. The cyber mercenaries were recruited by governments and private companies, it was composed of highly skilled hackers able to conduct sophisticated attacks. Some samples for both variants have been compiled between 2014 and 2019.

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More details about Operation Cronos that disrupted Lockbit operation

Security Affairs

LockBit is a prominent ransomware operation that first emerged in September 2019. In 2022, LockBit was one of the most active ransomware groups, and its prevalence continued into 2023.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2020 ­– 7 billion records breached

IT Governance

Florence, AL, government hit by cyber attack (unknown). University of Missouri Health Care discloses 2019 security incident (unknown). China launches cyber attacks on government websites and banks following India massacre (unknown). Australian government bombarded by cyber attacks (unknown). Ransomware.