Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5 Million in Ransom May 14, 2021 By William Turton, Michael Riley and Jennifer Jacobs Colonial Pipeline Co. paid nearly $5 million to Eastern European hackers on Friday, contradicting reports earlier this week that the...
DarkSide Hackers Mint Money With Ransomware Franchise May 12, 2021 By Michael Riley and Alyza Sebenius When a new ransomware group popped up on the scene last year, the hackers did what’s in vogue for digital...
Insurer AXA Halts Ransomware Crime Reimbursement in France May 10, 2021 By Frank Bajak BOSTON (AP) — In an apparent industry first, the global insurance company AXA said Thursday it will stop writing cyber-insurance...
Alaska Court System Briefly Forced Offline Amid Cyber Threat May 4, 2021 JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Court System has temporarily disconnected most of its operations from the internet after a...
No Ransomware Silver Bullet, Crooks Out of Reach April 30, 2021 By Frank Bajak BOSTON (AP) — Political hand-wringing in Washington over Russia’s hacking of federal agencies and interference in U.S. politics has mostly...
Russian Man Pleads Guilty in Nevada to Plot to Extort Tesla March 22, 2021 By Ken Ritter, Frank Bajak and Scott Sonner RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Russian man has pleaded guilty in the U.S. to offering a Tesla employee $1 million...
Microsoft Server Hack Has Victims Hustling to Stop Intruders March 10, 2021 By Frank Bajak, Eric Tucker and Matt O'Brien BOSTON (AP) — Victims of a massive global hack of Microsoft email server software — estimated in the tens of...
Casting A Wide Intrusion Net: Dozens Burned With Single Hack March 8, 2021 By Frank Bajak BOSTON (AP) — The SolarWinds hacking campaign blamed on Russian spies and the “grave threat” it poses to U.S. national...
Critics Say Microsoft Failed to Shore Up Defenses That Could Have Limited Solarwinds Hack February 26, 2021 By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp’s failure to fix known problems with its cloud software facilitated the massive SolarWinds hack that...
SolarWinds, Microsoft, FireEye, CrowdStrike Executives Face Senate Grilling February 23, 2021 By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON — Top executives at Texas-based software company SolarWinds Corp, digital giant Microsoft Corp and cybersecurity firms FireEye Inc and...