Malware

REvil – which has been on a tear the past several weeks – wants Apple to pay an undisclosed ransom by May 1 to “buy back” 15 stolen schematics of unreleased MacBooks and gigabytes of personal data on several major Apple brands they obtained from Quanta.

AIG is one of the top cyber insurance companies in the U.S. Today’s columnist, Erin Kennealy of Guidewire Software, offers ways for security pros, the insurance industry and government regulators to come together so insurance companies can continue to offer insurance for ransomware.

Adversaries attempt to gain an upper hand by compromising the Active Directory, encrypting VM environments, and abusing Rclone.

LinkedIn has become one of the most impersonated brands when it comes to phishing, and having access to such a treasure trove of information can help facilitate convincing social engineering attacks.

The onus is also on the threat intelligence community, said one IR expert, to practice responsible ransomware attribution, as it can affect companies' decisions on whether or not to pay.

In the early months of 2021 the ransomware operators struck a series of European industrial networks.