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Three days after holding out the lure of releasing new details about the LockBit ransomware gang, a team of American, British and European cyber specialists have unmasked the alleged administrator and developer of the gang: Russian citizen Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

What has the Australian Government achieved by placing sanctions on Russian attacker Aleksandr Ermakov for allegedly being the main person behind the intrusion into health insurer Medibank?

GUEST RESEARCH: WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity, today announced the findings of its latest Internet Security Report, detailing the top malware trends and network and endpoint security threats analysed by WatchGuard Threat Lab researchers. Key findings from the data show increasing instances of remote access software abuse, the rise of cyber adversaries using password-stealers and info-stealers to thieve valuable credentials, and threat actors pivoting from utilising scripting to employing other living-off-the-land techniques to initiate an endpoint attack.

GUEST RESEARCH: Automated email inbox rules are a useful and familiar feature of most email clients. They help people manage their inboxes and the daily flood of wanted and unwanted communications by enabling them to move emails to specific folders, forward them to colleagues while they’re away, or simply delete them.

In what is a relatively rare occurrence, Apple has offered an explanation as to why it stopped working on technology to block images of child abuse in iCloud.

A Google-owned virus information database has leaked a list of its users, the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel reports, adding that among the 5600 names are NSA employees and employees of German intelligence services.

The email account of US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was among a slew of accounts breached at both the State and Commerce Departments by attackers, claimed to be from China, who gained access through a vulnerability in Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.

A British journalist who has, in the past, blown the whistle on WikiLeaks' own ethical lapses, claims the US Department of Justice and the FBI are leaning on his fellow scribes to back the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange.

Some US federal agencies have been banned from contacting social media companies to push for removal of material the government deems inappropriate.

COMPANY NEWS: Nozomi Networks, the leader in OT and critical infrastructure security, today announced Marene Allison is joining the company’s distinguished board of advisors.

Cybercriminals will continue to innovate, finding new ways to attack businesses and critical infrastructure as a way of making money, according to security firm Darktrace in response to a new advisory warning posted by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC).

Cloud-native network detection and response (NDR) provider ExtraHop has announced that Mark Bowling will assume the new role of Chief Information Security and Risk Officer (CISRO).

Ten Australians are among those arrested as part of the takedown of Genesis Market, a site which was trading in data for all kinds of malicious activity,

Fears that law enforcement may be lurking in the wings has forced the new administrator of BreachForums to shut down the website.

A New York resident has been arrested on charges of allegedly running the BreachForums web site which was used to provide information about data leaks to prospective buyers.

The United States has announced the creation of what it calls a Disruptive Technology Strike Force which, among other tasks, will check for criminal violations of export laws.

Well-known security researcher Vitali Kremez has died apparently after going scuba diving off the coast of Hollywood Beach in Florida. He was 36.

A law which shields big tech platforms from lawsuits over content provided by users is being challenged in the US Supreme Court, and is likely to be heard next year.

GUEST RESEARCH: Abnormal Security, the leading AI-based cloud-native email security platform, announced today the release of new research that showcases a rising trend in financial supply chain compromise as threat actors impersonate vendors more than ever before.

The government of Costa Rica has declared a state of emergency after a number of state agencies, including the finance ministry, were hit by the Windows ransomware strain known as Conti.