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There are few CIOs who haven’t been hit by attrition, as streams of highly talented IT professionals head out the door for bigger salaries, better opportunities, or both. The fact that today’s digital powerhouses are now hiring tens of thousands of employees — often without regard to geography — has only exacerbated the talent crunch for IT leaders. Employee retention remains top of mind. But amid these seismic shifts in an already high-demand marketplace, leading…

Cryptocurrency mixing service Blender.io has become the first business of its kind to be hit with US government sanctions after it was allegedly used by North Korean hackers following a major crypto theft. The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) claimed the firm was used by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to launder over $20.5m of the $620m estimated to have been stolen from Ronin Network in March. “Today, for the first…

The US authorities have offered a multimillion-dollar reward for information leading to the identification, arrest and/or conviction of individuals involved in attacks using the Conti ransomware variant. Offered under the Department of State’s Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program (TOCRP), the money is split into two pots: up to $10m for information on the identity or location of individuals “who hold a key leadership position” in Conti; and up to $5m for info leading to the…