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Ransomware Task Force to Figure Out How To Fight Ransomware

A group of security and technology vendors, non-profit groups, and other organizations have formed a coalition to tackle the impact of ransomware on various industry sectors such as government, education, healthcare, and other critical verticals. The Ransomware Task Force will release a standard framework addressing how to deal with attacks.

Ransomware

Malicious Code Found in Package Repositories

Attackers have increasingly targeted the software supply chain by populating package managers such as RubyGems and npm with malicious code.

Software Security, Open Source

Decipher Library: Holiday Edition

The editors of Decipher have put together a list of books, technical and otherwise, you can enjoy during a well-deserved holiday break.

Books

CISA: Attackers Used Vectors Other Than SolarWinds Backdoor

CISA said the attackers behind the SolarWinds compromise used other infection vectors to access some victims' networks.

Solarwinds

Stopping SolarWinds Backdoor with a Killswitch

Some news for security operations teams investigating their networks for signs that nation-state attackers had deployed the Sunburst malware via the SolarWinds' Orion network monitoring technology: FireEye has identified a killswitch that would stop the malware from executing in infected networks.

Data Breaches, Malware