Windows TCO Leftovers
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Security Week ☛ Russian [Crackers] Suspected of Sweden Cyberattack
The Swedish-Finnish group, which provides online security systems, said the problem could take weeks to fix.
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Silicon Angle ☛ BianLian ransomware group shifts focus to US, European healthcare and manufacturing industries
BianLian first emerged around 2021 and came to widespread attention in 2022 when it targeted companies in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia with traditional ransomware attacks, including encrypting files and demanding that a ransom be paid. BianLian, which previously used “double-extortion” attacks that involved encrypting and stealing data, now only steals data and threatens to publish it if its victims do not pay the ransom.
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Scoop News Group ☛ Microsoft critics accuse the firm of ‘negligence’ in latest breach
For the second time in six months, Microsoft has disclosed that spies affiliated with a foreign intelligence service breached the company’s systems and accessed the emails of senior company executives. And for the second time in as many months, officials in Washington along with security researchers and executives are arguing that the company simply isn’t doing enough to secure its systems.
“This is yet another wholly avoidable hack that was caused by Microsoft’s negligence,” Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said in a statement to CyberScoop.