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Computing: Ransomware gangs should be tracked and disrupted using the same strategies deployed against terrorist groups, US Department of Justice officials have suggested.
CNBC: The Biden administration is urging corporate executives and business leaders to take immediate steps to prepare for ransomware attacks, warning in a new memo that cybercriminals are shifting from stealing data to disrupting core operations.
CNBC: The U.S. cybersecurity firm said the sale will split Mandiant Solutions, its cyber forensics unit, from its cloud security, network and email products.
RNZ: A report by consultancy KPMG has uncovered shortcomings in the Reserve Bank's data protection practices, which resulted in it becoming a victim of a cyber-attack on the third-party file-sharing application it used to share and store information.
Yahoo Finance: U.S. pipeline operators will be required for the first time to conduct a cybersecurity assessment under a Biden administration directive in response to the ransomware hack that disrupted gas supplies in several states this month.
Yahoo Finance: Canada's national mail carrier says a malware attack on one of its suppliers has impacted 44 of its biggest corporate customers across the country, and potentially up to nearly one million people.
BNN Bloomberg: Colonial Pipeline Co. confirmed on Wednesday that it paid hackers US$4.4 million in ransom after suffering a devastating cyberattack that took the U.S.’s largest fuel pipeline offline.
BNN Bloomberg: President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal includes billions of dollars tied to improving cybersecurity, an area of intensified interest after the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline Co. sent U.S. gasoline prices soaring.
Forbes: On the first Friday in May, a gang of black-hat hackers operating under the ominous nom de guerre of DarkSide successfully breached the cyber defenses of Colonial Pipeline, a company that moves 100 million gallons of fuel a day through a 5,500-mile network of pipes running across the eastern half of the U.S.
BNN Bloomberg: Colonial Pipeline Co. paid nearly US$5 million to Eastern European hackers on Friday, contradicting reports earlier this week that the company had no intention of paying an extortion fee to help restore the country’s largest fuel pipeline, according to two people familiar with the transaction.
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