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The World This Week (May 17th to May 23, 2021)

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According to a Bloomberg Report on Friday, CNA Financials has paid a Ransom of 40 Million USD. They paid it in March after two weeks of loosing their data and getting locked out. CNA Financials is a Chicago based US Insurance Giant. CNA has refused to comment on the Ransom and said that their actions were in accordance with the …

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Is Passwordless Authentication the Future?

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“True Cybersecurity is preparing for what’s next, not what was last” – Neil Rerup, Cybersecurity Expert Passwordless authentication is widely regarded as the future of authentication. Passwords actually do more harm than good. Yes, you heard it right. Research says that an average internet user has more than 90 online accounts. Think about all the online accounts you have created for …

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Darkside is gone, but Who did it?

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On may 14th, 2021, a message from a cybercrime forum believed to be from Darkside Admin read. A few hours ago, we lost access to the public part infrastructure namely the: Blog. Payment Server. DOS Servers. Now these servers are unavailable by SSH, the hosting panels are blocked. Hosting support, apart from  information “at the request of law enforcement agencies,” …

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The world this week (10th to 16th May 2021)

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Last week we reported the colonial pipeline Ransomware Attack which eventually disrupted the operations for around 6 days and made the pipeline cough up $5 Million in Ransom. Darkside Ransomware Service, responsible for the attack has reportedly announced the closure of their affiliate program. DarkSide also said, they are releasing decryption tools for all of the companies that have been …

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