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    16 Jun, 2021
    Ukrainian Police Nab Six Tied to CLOP Ransomware
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    Authorities in Ukraine this week charged six people alleged to have been part of the CLOP ransomware group, a cybercriminal gang said to have extorted more than half a billion dollars from victims. Some of CLOP’s victims this year alone include Stanford University Medical School, the University of California, and University of Maryland. …

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    15 Jun, 2021
    Quick Ransomware Recovery with Veeam
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    I recently had the honor of being ransomware in the cloud, which was not totally unexpected.  After all, one of my greatest complaints about the cloud (you can read more about why I hate the cloud here), is that people don’t design, architect, or secure it properly and my lab is no exception to that …

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    15 Jun, 2021
    How Does One Get Hired by a Top Cybercrime Gang?
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    The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman who’s alleged to have worked as a programmer for Trickbot, a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for infecting millions of computers and seeding many of those systems with ransomware. Just how did a self-employed web site designer and mother of two come to work for one of the world’s most rapacious cybercriminal groups and then leave such an obvious trail of clues indicating her involvement with the gang? This post explores answers to those questions, as well as some of the ways Trickbot and other organized cybercrime gangs gradually recruit, groom and trust new programmers. …

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