Tens of thousands of customers of Bay Area credit union Patelco remain without access to their accounts, following a crippling ransomware attack on the 88-year-old financial institution. The June 29 attack forced the credit union to shut down several of its key banking systems in a measure to contain damage and remediate the issue. Restoration […]
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Jennifer VanAntwerp is a seasoned marketing professional who has worked in several industries, including automotive, healthcare, and now cybersecurity. While each sector has distinct elements, VanAntwerp noticed a a common thread when attending conferences and networking events: Alcohol was a constant, and that was an issue for sober people, like herself. "The prominence of alcohol […]
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A double-extortion ransomware player has exploded onto the scene with several attacks in two weeks, wielding innovative locker malware and a slew of evasion tactics for covering its tracks and making it difficult for security experts to investigate. Tracked as "Volcano Demon" by the researchers at Halcyon who discovered it, the newly discovered adversary is […]
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Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have found a new way to execute Spectre-like side channel attacks against high-end Intel CPUs, including the recent Raptor Lake and Alder Lake microprocessors. Like Spectre, the new technique, which the researchers have dubbed "Indirector," exploits a speculative execution feature in the Intel CPUs to redirect […]
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