North Korean Hackers Targeting Healthcare with Ransomware to Fund its Operations

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Feb 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Ransomware State-backed hackers from North Korea are conducting ransomware attacks against healthcare and critical infrastructure facilities to fund illicit activities, U.S. and South Korean cybersecurity and intelligence agencies warned in a joint advisory. The attacks, which demand cryptocurrency ransoms in exchange for recovering access to encrypted files, are designed…

Reddit says hackers accessed internal data following employee phishing attack • TechCrunch

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Reddit has confirmed hackers accessed internal documents and source code following a “highly-targeted” phishing attack. A post by Reddit CTO Christopher Slowe, or KeyserSosa, explained that the company became aware of the “sophisticated” attack targeting Reddit employees on February 5. He says that an as-yet-unidentified attacker sent “plausible-sounding prompts” that redirected employees to a website masquerading as…

U.K. and U.S. Sanction 7 Russians for TrickBot, Ryuk, and Conti Ransomware Attacks

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In a first-of-its-kind coordinated action, the U.K. and U.S. governments on Thursday levied sanctions against seven Russian nationals for their affiliation to the TrickBot, Ryuk, and Conti cybercrime operation. The individuals designated under sanctions are Vitaly Kovalev (aka Alex Konor, Bentley, or Bergen), Maksim Mikhailov (aka Baget), Valentin Karyagin (aka Globus), Mikhail Iskritskiy (aka Tropa),…

This Microsoft Office for Mac package turns your Mac into a cross-platform powerhouse for under $50

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In 1990, the Cincinnati Reds were baseball’s world champions. “Ghost” and “GoodFellas” topped the box office. And a meteor clipped the planet Earth. We were fine, though. Against all that action in October 1990, it would have been easy to overlook the launch of a new home software package called Microsoft Office. Three decades later, the…