Hive ransomware crooks extort $100m from 1,300 global victims

Hive ransomware criminals have hit more than 1,300 companies globally, extorting about $100 million from its victims over the last 18 months, according to the FBI. While Hive has only been around since June 2021, the ransomware-as-a-service operator has been extremely prolific in its relatively short existence, and taken an …

[Ron1]

Costruzioni Italiane Serrature e Affini

CISA is an Italian company making (mechanical) locks, founded in 1926. CISA the govt. agency was founded in 2018 - they could have chosen a different acronym...

Mine is the one with CISA keys in the pocket...

[Ron1]

Costruzioni Italiane Serrature e Affini

CISA is an Italian company making (mechanical) locks, founded in 1926. CISA the govt. agency was founded in 2018 - they could have chosen a different acronym...

Mine is the one with CISA keys in the pocket...

[b0llchit]

Honour? Try wallet

...there's really no honor among thieves.

There really is no honour i bad IT practices either!

Many of these problem are from bad management of the computing and support devices. Like (severely) out of date stuff. The second problem is, as always, user's stupidity. Unfortunately, evolution will always create a bigger idiot when you try to make it ID10T proof. That does not mean you cannot limit and compartmentalize the problems.

The professional knows that at least you must a) think twice what you put on the computer systems, b) partition access to data, c) limit your exposure from outside and inside and d) be ahead and vigilant all the time. But that is, ehm, expensive? Well, these organisations should be fined 10% of their global revenue for each breach. Then lets see how expensive IT is.

[Potemkine!]

At least a front where Russians thrive.

the miscreants have also bypassed multi-factor authentication and broken into FortiOS servers by exploiting CVE-2020-12812, a critical authentication bypass bug that Fortinet fixed more than two years ago

Not patching firewalls ASAP is bad, very bad.

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