Trend Micro : This Week in Security News – January 21, 2022 | MarketScreener

In this two-part series, Trend Micro looks at cybersecurity threats that affected industrial control systems endpoints and shares insights and recommendations to mitigate such threats.

Ukraine government agencies and corporate entities suffered coordinated cyberattacks last Friday where websites were defaced, and data-wiping malware was deployed to corrupt data and cause Windows devices to become inoperable.

This technical brief provides an in-depth look at Earth Lusca’s activities, the tools it employs in attacks, and the infrastructure it uses.

The total value of the unauthorized withdrawals was 4,836.26 ETH and 443.93 BTC – equivalent to roughly $15.2 million and $18.6 million respectively, at current exchange rates – as well as $66,200 worth of other currencies.

Trend Micro spotted the new ransomware family called White Rabbit, a newcomer that takes a page from Egregor, a more established ransomware family, in hiding its malicious activity and carries a potential connection to the advanced persistent threat group FIN8.

Russia’s main security agency said that at the request of the United States government, it has dismantled REvil, one of the most aggressive ransomware crime groups attacking Western targets, and arrested some of its members.

More organizations are applying a DevOps thought-process and methodology to optimize software development.

The FBI and police from multiple European countries and Canada have taken down 15 computer servers that were used in “major international cyberattacks,” law enforcement agencies said.

President Biden expanded the National Security Agency’s role in protecting the U.S.

In a series of blog posts, Trend Micro explores different aspects of Codex and assesses its capabilities with a focus on the security aspects that affect not only regular developers but also malicious users.

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