The 35-year-old faces up to 10 years in jail and authorities announced an $11 million reward for information on his alleged co-conspirator who remains at large.

Ryan Goldberg and Kevin Martin were working at cybersecurity companies when they switched sides and hit five companies with ransomware attacks in 2023.

Attacker interest in the vulnerability is magnified by an unparalleled number of publicly available exploits, earning the defect the highest verified public exploit count of any CVE…

A Russian national was also indicted for running the platform.

Payments declined one-third to $734M, yet the number of victims confronting ransomware still remains a largely unchanged epidemic, sliding just 2% last year.

Nate Beach-Westmoreland, Head of Strategic Cyber Threat Intelligence at Booz Allen

The Ivy League school said it was one of almost 100 organizations hit by the simultaneous attacks in August.

An international effort sanctioned Russia-based Media Land and took action against companies and people who helped Aeza Group evade previously issued sanctions.

Officials shared indicators of compromise observed as recently as this month to help organizations hunt for and defend against the ransomware group, which has pocketed $244 million…

The newspaper said a “bad actor” contacted the company in late September, prompting an investigation that nearly a month later confirmed the extent of compromise.