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China’s Salt Typhoon Attacks Guam entity; US Sanctions Chinese Company

Jeffrey Burt | January 6, 2025 | china espionage, Flax Typhoon botnet, Treasury Department, U.S Sanctions, Volt Typhoon

China is continuing to target U.S. entities in its efforts regarding Taiwan, including using state-sponsored Flax Typhoon to compromise Guam infrastructure. U.S. are pushing back, with the Treasury Department sanctioning a Chinse ...

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World’s Biggest Bank Hacked: ICBC Walks Trades on USBs

Richi Jennings | November 10, 2023 | china, Citrix, Citrix Bleed, Citrix Systems, CVE-2023-4966, ICBC, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Lockbit, Lockbit 3.0, LockBit ransomware, Ransomware, Russia, SB Blogwatch, Treasury, Treasury Department, U.S. Department of Treasury, U.S. Treasury Department

Plan B is sneakernet: After Industrial and Commercial Bank of China ransomware attack, U.S. Treasury trades settled by bike messengers with flash drives ...

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Adventures in Contacting the Russian FSB

BrianKrebs | June 7, 2021 | A Little Sunshine, BadB, C++, CryptoPro, FBI, Federal Security Service, FSB, GOST, Lance James, Treasury Department, Unit221B, VirusTotal, Vladislav Horohorin, Yandex

KrebsOnSecurity recently had occasion to contact the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In the process of doing so, I encountered a ...

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Beware of These 3 Scams Making the Rounds This Tax Season

David Bisson | April 14, 2021 | IRS, IT Security and Data Protection, scammers, tax returns, Treasury Department

On March 17, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department announced the extension of the federal income tax filing due date from April 15, 2021 to May 17, 2021 ...

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Incident Response: Pay a Ransom, Go to Jail

Mark Rasch | October 8, 2020 | extortion, FBI, Incident Response, Ransomware, Treasury Department

Companies that find their files, data or networks locked by a malicious actor demanding an extortion payment now have a new worry in their incident response: The U.S. Department of Treasury. On ...

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Ransomware Victims That Pay Up Could Incur Steep Fines from Uncle Sam

BrianKrebs | October 1, 2020 | Cryptolocker, Eversheds Sutherland, Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, Evil Corp., Ginger Faulk, Lazarus Group, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Ransomware, samsam ransomware, Treasury Department

Companies victimized by ransomware and firms that facilitate negotiations with ransomware extortionists could face steep fines from the U.S. federal government if the crooks who profit from the attack are already under ...

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