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Hacktivists Are Likely to Increasingly Adopt Cybercrime Tactics, Report SaysRansomware hacks and self-declared hacktivist denial-of-services attacks were the most prolific threat to European Union members over the 12-month period ending in June, the EU cyber agency warned, adding that the nexus between nation-state hackers and hacktivist groups poses an emerging threat.

Write better code, urges Jen Easterly. And while you're at it, give crime gangs horrible names like 'Evil Ferret' Software developers who ship buggy, insecure code are the real villains in the cyber crime story, Jen Easterly, boss of the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has argued.…

The Eastern European group is actively expanding its financial fraud activities, with its pipelines representing a veritable Silk Road for the transfer of cryptocurrency, and lucrative and exploitable data.

The sanctions are unlikely to impact the growing network of criminals who lure victims into working for cybercrime sweat shops around the world.

Imagine this... You arrive at work to a chaotic scene. Systems are down, panic is in the air. The culprit? Not a rogue virus, but a compromised identity. The attacker is inside your walls, masquerading as a trusted user. This isn't a horror movie, it's the new reality of cybercrime. The question is, are you prepared? Traditional incident response plans are like old maps in a new world. They