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The Painful Calculus of Ransomware Payments

Ransomware gangs have added data theft to their tactics, bringing another variable into the pay or don't pay equation.

Ransomware

Home Depot Settles With States Over 2014 Data Breach

The home improvement giant reached a $17.5 million settlement with 46 states and Washington, DC to resolve the investigation into the data breach that compromised the payment information of 40 million customers who used self-checkout terminals at its stores in the United States and Canada.

Data Breaches

New Signed Version of Old Bandook Malware Emerges

New variants of the Bandook malware that are digitally signed have been used in a recent wave of attacks on organizations in many industries.

Malware

Interpol Arrests Three in BEC Scam

The Nigeria Police Force, in partnership with Interpol and Group-IB, has arrested three men suspected of being part of a cybercriminal gang that specialized in business-email-compromise scams.

Phishing

VMware Warns of Critical Zero Day in Workspace One

A critical command injection vulnerability (CVE-2020-4006) with no fix available has been discovered in VMware Workspace One.

Vmware