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Feds extradite ransomware suspects from 2 prolific gangs in a single week

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / iStock) Federal prosecutors extradited two suspected ransomware operators, including a man they said was responsible for an intrusion that infected as many as 1,500 organizations in a single stroke, making it one of the worst supply chain attacks ever. Yaroslav Vasinskyi, 22, was arrested last August as he crossed from...

Brave takes on the creepy websites that override your privacy settings
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Brave takes on the creepy websites that override your privacy settings

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Some websites just can’t take “no” for an answer. Instead of respecting visitors’ choice to block third-party cookies—the identifiers that track browsing activity as a user moves from site to site—they find sneaky ways to bypass those settings. Now, makers of the Brave browser are taking action. Earlier this week, Brave...

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The secret US mission to bolster Ukraine’s cyber defenses ahead of Russia’s invasion

Enlarge (credit: gwengoat | Getty Images) Months before the Russian invasion, a team of Americans fanned out across Ukraine looking for a very specific kind of threat. Some team members were soldiers with the US Army’s Cyber Command. Others were civilian contractors and some employees of American companies that help defend critical infrastructure from the...

New method that amplifies DDoSes by 4 billion-fold. What could go wrong?
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New method that amplifies DDoSes by 4 billion-fold. What could go wrong?

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Cybercriminals who use giant floods of data to knock sites offline are leveraging a never-before-seen method that has the potential to increase the damaging effects of those floods by an unprecedented 4 billion times, researchers warned on Tuesday. Like many other types of distributed denial-of-service attacks, the attacks send a modest...