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Ukraine: Volunteer IT Army is going to hit tens of Russian targets from this list

Security Affairs

Ukraine’s Minister for Digital Transformation Mykhaylo Fedorov called to action against Russia attempting to create an “IT Army” to launch a massive offensive against Russia. On the other side, some prominent ransomware gangs seem to be ready to provide their support to Russia. We are creating an IT army.

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MY TAKE: How advanced automation of threat intel sharing has quickened incident response

The Last Watchdog

military complex, who got frustrated by their inability to extract actionable intel from a deluge of threat feeds. At the same time, digital transformation has redoubled the complexity of company networks, catapulting us from Big Data to Very Big Data. Threat actors will innovate, of course.

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Q&A: Sophos poll shows how attackers are taking advantage of cloud migration to wreak havoc

The Last Watchdog

Furthermore, 50% encountered ransomware and other malware; 29% reported incidents of data getting exposed; 25% had accounts compromised; and 17% dealt with incidents of crypto-jacking. LW: Shifting gears a bit, what’s going on with ransomware? LW: What do ransomware attack pattern across the globe look like today?

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NEW TECH: CyCognito employs offensive bot network to put companies a step a head of attackers

The Last Watchdog

Threat actors simply seek out the endless fresh attack vectors arising as an unintended consequence of digital transformation. The company was launched in Tel Aviv in 2017 by a couple of former Israeli military cyber ops attack specialists, Rob Gurzeev and Dima Potekhin. Today we’re in the throes of digital transformation.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Fog of Cyber War

ForAllSecure

Then we've seen all these big waves after that banking Trojans, credit card keyloggers botnet building have clearly for the last eight years now, Ransom ransomware in various different incarnate incarnations has been the big moneymaker. Instead we have these faceless ransomware groups. Vamosi:Ransomware is profitable today.

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Ukrainian Websites Struck by Cyber Attacks as Russia Launches Invasion

IT Governance

“Another mass DDoS attack on our state [has] begun,” Ukraine’s Digital Transformation Minister, Mykhaylo Fedorov, wrote on Telegram. President Vladimir Putin repeatedly said Russia would not launch a military incursion, despite soldiers already entering Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region on ‘peacekeeping duty’.

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MY TAKE: Former NSA director says cybersecurity solutions need to reflect societal values

The Last Watchdog

Cyber Command, as well as director, National Security Agency, and chief, Central Security Service, from March 2014 until he retired from military service in May 2018. Rogers made his remarks as part of a panel discussion on securing digital transformation moderated by Infosys CISO Vishal Salvi.