Tag: Ransomware

[ad_1] The US Department of Justice announced on Thursday that a Canadian man was extradited to the United States to face charges for dozens of ransomware attacks, resulting in the payment of tens of millions of dollars in ransoms. Q4 2021 volumes have gone up or down and how...

[ad_1] Australia’s top cyber spies are set to gain greater powers in the event of ransomware or other cyber attacks on critical infrastructure. The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), a government agency in charge of cyber warfare and information security, would be able to take over control of critical infrastructure...

[ad_1] By Philip Martin, Chief Security Officer, Coinbase The recent high profile ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline and food processing giant JBS have led to knee jerk calls to ban cryptocurrencies because the attackers demanded to be paid in Bitcoin. But if cryptocurrency went away tomorrow would ransomware end? In...