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GUEST ESSAY: The key differences between ‘information privacy’ vs. ‘information security’

The Last Watchdog

Information privacy and information security are two different things. Related: Tapping hidden pools of security talent Information privacy is the ability to control who (or what) can view or access information that is collected about you or your customers. They take all this private information, and then they sell it.

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Bring us the head of LockBit! $15 million bounty offered for information on leaders of notorious ransomware gang

Graham Cluley

A huge reward is being offered for information leading to the identification or location of any of the leaders of the LockBit ransomware gang. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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$10 million reward offered for information on Cl0p ransomware gang

Graham Cluley

Well, all you have to do is provide information that helps identify or locate members of the notorious Cl0p ransomware gang. Fancy $10 million? Of course you do!

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Ransomware group threatens to leak information about police informants

Malwarebytes

One day after a ransomware group shared hacked data that allegedly belonged to the Washington, D.C. Claiming responsibility for the DC police cyberattack is the ransomware gang Babuk. Police Department online, the police force for the nation’s capital confirmed it had been breached.

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How Preparation and Strategy Can Be Used to Fight and Defeat Any Ransomware Attack

Speaker: Karl Camilleri, Cloud Services Product Manager at phoenixNAP

Did you know that 2021 was a record-breaking year for ransomware? As a result, data protection needs to be a concern for most banks, businesses, and information technology specialists. As a result, data protection needs to be a concern for most banks, businesses, and information technology specialists.

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Feds Seize LockBit Ransomware Websites, Offer Decryption Tools, Troll Affiliates

Krebs on Security

authorities have seized the darknet websites run by LockBit , a prolific and destructive ransomware group that has claimed more than 2,000 victims worldwide and extorted over $120 million in payments. “I don’t think this is an accident—this is how ransomware groups talk to each other,” Stockley said.

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BlackCat Ransomware Raises Ante After FBI Disruption

Krebs on Security

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) disclosed today that it infiltrated the world’s second most prolific ransomware gang, a Russia-based criminal group known as ALPHV and BlackCat. BlackCat formed by recruiting operators from several competing or disbanded ransomware organizations — including REvil , BlackMatter and DarkSide.