I knew you were trouble, Queens DA might have said Police have made two arrests in their quest to start a cybercrime crew’s prison eras, alleging the pair stole hundreds of Taylor Swift tickets and sold them for huge profit. … READ MORE HERE…

Which is why taking down chiefs and infra behind big name brand operations isn’t working Interview  There’s a handful of cybercriminal gangs that Jason Baker, a ransomware negotiator with GuidePoint Security, regularly gets called in to respond to these days, and a year ago only one of these crews — Akira — was on threat hunters’ radars and infecting organizations with the same ferocity as it is today.… READ MORE HERE…

Best not to buy cheap hardware and use third-party app stores if you want to stay clear of this vast ad fraud effort Human Security’s Satori research team says it has found a new variant of the remote-controllable Badbox malware, and as many as a million infected Android devices running it to form a massive botnet.… READ MORE HERE…

Akira really wasn’t horsing around with this one Toronto Zoo’s final update on its January 2024 cyberattack arrived this week, revealing that visitor data going back to 2000 had been compromised.… READ MORE HERE…