In today’s fast-paced organizations, end-users will sometimes try to take a shortcut. We’ve all been there — rushing to meet a deadline, juggling multiple tasks, or just trying to be helpful. But the reality is that letting even well-intentioned actions can come back to bite you. Picture this: an employee innocently lets a family member…

Digital forensics plays a vital role in investigating a wide range of cybercrimes and cybersecurity incidents. This field involves uncovering, analyzing, and interpreting digital evidence to piece together the story behind various cybercrimes, data breaches, and even traditional crimes with digital elements. Digital forensics encompasses several stages, beginning with the collection of evidence from various…

Play ransomware is the latest ransomware gang to start deploying a dedicated Linux locker for encrypting VMware ESXi virtual machines. Cybersecurity company Trend Micro, whose analysts spotted the new ransomware variant, says the locker is designed to first check whether it’s running in an ESXi environment before executing and that it can evade detection on…

The US government has imposed sanctions on two Russian cybercriminals for cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure. According to a US Treasury press release, the two sanctioned persons are Yuliya Vladimirovna Pankratova and Denis Olegovich Degtyarenko, both key members of the Russia-aligned hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR). Pankratova, known online as ‘YuliYA,’ is allegedly the…