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A member of the FIN7 group was sentenced to 10 years in prison

Security Affairs

The Ukrainian national Fedir Hladyr (35), aka “das” or “AronaXus,” was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having served as a manager and systems administrator for the financially motivated group FIN7 , aka Carbanak. In May 2020, authorities arrested another member of the FIN7 group, the Ukrainian nation Denys Iarmak.

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Top 12 Cloud Security Best Practices for 2021

eSecurity Planet

What are the results of the provider’s most recent penetration tests? The fourth biggest threat to public cloud security identified in CloudPassage’s report is unauthorized access (and growing – 53 percent, up from 42 percent in 2020). Conduct audits and penetration testing. Enable security logs.

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FIN7 sysadmin behind “billions in damage” gets 10 years

Malwarebytes

Hladyr is the systems administrator for the FIN7 hacking group, and is considered the mastermind behind the Carbanak campaign , a series of cyberattacks said to stolen as much as $900 million from banks in early part of the last decade. According to acting US Attorney Tessa M.

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Russian-speaking cybercrime evolution: What changed from 2016 to 2021

SecureList

On top of that, due to changes in legislation that limited financial institutions in hiring external services, the number of cases we investigated for financial industry clients in 2020 was zero. We investigated 200 cases for clients in Russia in 2020, and already over 300 in the first nine months of 2021.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

— Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020. link] pic.twitter.com/cVIyB44o6q — Eugene Kaspersky (@e_kaspersky) June 22, 2020. Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. Eugene Kaspersky | @e_kaspersky. Eva Galperi n | @evacide.