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The United States’ Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking to recover a financial penalty of nearly $10m that was imposed on a man from Montana for operating malicious robocalling campaigns.  The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) fined Libby resident Scott Rhodes $9,918,000 in January 2021 after discovering that he had illegally used caller ID spoofing with the intent to cause harm. An investigation by the FCC found that between May 2018 and December 2018 Rhodes had made thousands…

Ransomware attacks have been front and center in the news recently due to high-profile breaches that have impacted businesses across the globe. These headline grabbing attacks have been part of a larger global increase in ransomware crime. With a dramatic increase in security challenges due to the disruptions caused in part by the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant increase in ransomware attacks.

The United States’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has awarded two organizations $2m to develop cybersecurity workforce training programs.  Award recipients NPower and CyberWarrior will use the cash injection to bring cybersecurity training to the unemployed and to underemployed communities. CISA announced the awards yesterday to coincide with the third week of its Cybersecurity Summit, organized on the theme, “Team Awesome: The Cyber Workforce.” The awards are the first of their kind for the agency, whose…

By Brett Raybould, EMEA Solutions Architect at Menlo Security The ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline in the US has shown just how vulnerable the energy industry is to cyber-attacks. Brett Raybould, EMEA Solutions Architect at Menlo Security, looks at what it takes to keep the lights on. In threat reports, the energy and utilities sector often tops the list of industries in terms of the number of attacks and cost of…

This blog on Cloud Tools and Platform Standardization represents part 7 of a multi-part blog series on multi-cloud use maturity.  A comprehensive eBook that includes the entire multi-cloud use maturity framework can be found here.  At the end of this blog, you can also find links to all the prior blogs in this series. In a multi-cloud world – complexity is the enemy Until recently, most teams that were responsible for app dev and IT operations…

Nearly three-quarters (72%) of organizations have suffered a domain name system (DNS) attack in the last 12 months, according to a new study by the Neustar International Security Council (NISC). Of those organizations affected, 61% were targeted on multiple occasions, while 11% have been victimized regularly. While Neustar noted that DNS attacks are generally a lower concern for security pros than vectors like ransomware, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and targeted account hacking, they are becoming increasingly menacing to…

The US Government has issued an alert to organisations about the threat posed by the BlackMatter ransomware group. The government’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (better known as CISA) issued the advisory earlier this week, following a series of BlackMatter ransomware attacks since July 2021 targeting US critical infrastructure, including two American organisations working in the food and agriculture sector. The BlackMatter ransomware, which came to prominence earlier this year following the demise of the…