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US seizes $2.3 million Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware attackers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The FBI said it has seized $2.3 million paid to the ransomware attackers who paralyzed the network of Colonial Pipeline and touched off gasoline and jet fuel supply disruptions up and down the East Coast last month. In dollar amounts, the sum represents about half of the $4.4 million that Colonial...

Hacker lexicon: What is a supply chain attack?
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Hacker lexicon: What is a supply chain attack?

Enlarge (credit: Frank Lindecke / Flickr) Cybersecurity truisms have long been described in simple terms of trust: Beware email attachments from unfamiliar sources and don’t hand over credentials to a fraudulent website. But increasingly, sophisticated hackers are undermining that basic sense of trust and raising a paranoia-inducing question: what if the legitimate hardware and software that...