Costa Rican president claims collaborators are aiding Conti’s ransomware extortion efforts
The claim comes after Conti doubled its extortion demand to $20 million and called for the overthrow of the government.
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FBI employee indicted for stealing classified info on FBI cybersecurity work
The documents also revealed information on al Qaeda and counterintelligence work.
Someone hijacked Reddit moderator accounts to promote Trump
Reddit moderator accounts appear to have been compromised.
US files superseding indictment against former Twitter employees accused of spying for Saudi Arabia
U.S. prosecutors filed a superseding indictment against two former Twitter employees for allegedly spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia.
Former Trend Micro employee enabled scam calls by stealing customers’ personal data
The cybersecurity company says the former employee sold it to an as-yet-unknown malicious third-party actor.
Former U.S. Army contractor sentenced to prison for destroying IT system
A contractor wiped an entire SharePoint system off a company's AWS instance to exact revenge for his job being terminated.
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Extortion and alleged ISIS threats: A Saudi embassy learned the hard way about email security
Security researcher Chris Kubecka knew that it might be a tough assignment to catch an intruder on the email system at Saudi Arabia's embassy in the Netherlands.…
Former NSA contractor sentenced to 9 years for theft of government info
Hal Martin was responsible for one of the largest leaks of U.S government secrets, after it was found that the former NSA contractor possessed up to 50…
Ex-NSA contractor pleads guilty to vast classified data leak, faces 9 years in prison
The staggering leak was one of several damaging disclosures of NSA secrets in recent years.
Federal insider-threat programs get a dose of ‘Maturity’
A government task force aims to help agencies move beyond the "minimum standards" for an insider threat program with a new "Maturity Framework."