#Insider Threat
All CosmicBytez Labs articles tagged #Insider Threat, across news, security advisories, how-to guides, and projects.
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When Your Ransomware Negotiator Works for the Other Side
Dark Reading's analysis of negotiator Edward Dubrovsky's arrest warns crisis urgency lets compromised IR vendors bypass normal vetting controls.
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Prominent Ransomware Negotiator Faces Extortion Charges
Edward Dubrovsky, 54, a prominent Cypfer-linked ransomware negotiator, was arrested in Pennsylvania and charged with conspiracy to extort money.
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Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison
Former infrastructure engineer Daniel Rhyne, 59, gets 32 months for deleting admin accounts and demanding 20 bitcoin (~$750,000) from his ex-employer.
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Engineer Sentenced for Locking Over 3,000 Devices on Employer Network
Daniel Rhyne, a former infrastructure engineer, got 32 months after locking out servers and workstations and demanding $750,000 in bitcoin.
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OpenAI Parts Ways With Three Safety Researchers Over Sensitive Information Mishandling
OpenAI dismissed three safety researchers for mishandling sensitive internal data shared with an outside AI-safety group, WSJ reports.
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Stopping IT Worker Scams Requires Revamped HR Process
North Korean IT worker fraud is scaling with AI. Dark Reading details the HR red flags and automated vetting controls needed to stop it.
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U.S. Army Soldier Sentenced to 70 Months for AT&T, Verizon Extortion Scheme
Cameron Wagenius, 22, was sentenced to 70 months and ordered to pay $294,978 after hacking AT&T, Verizon, and Snowflake customers via stolen credentials.
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Stronger Security Drives Ransomware Groups to Recruit From Within
As MFA and EDR harden perimeters, ransomware crews are increasingly recruiting employees and contractors as inside men to bypass defenses entirely.
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Data Analyst Sent to Prison for Stealing Data, Extorting Employer
A former contractor at Brightly Software was sentenced to two years in federal prison for a $2.5 million extortion scheme targeting his employer.
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Origin Energy Data Breach Affects 900,000 Australians
Australian energy giant Origin Energy confirmed a data breach exposing the personal and partial financial information of approximately 900,000 current and...
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Origin Energy Data Breach: Fired Employee's Credentials Expose Up to 2 Million Australian Customers
Australian energy giant Origin Energy has confirmed a data breach affecting up to 2 million customers after a threat actor exploited credentials belonging...
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Third US Security Expert Sentenced to Prison for Helping Ransomware Gang
Angelo Martino, a former ransomware negotiator turned insider threat, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for actively assisting the...
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Former DigitalMint Ransomware Negotiator Sentenced to 70 Months for Defrauding Clients
Angelo Martino, a former cyber recovery specialist at DigitalMint, was sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison after secretly feeding confidential...
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Ex-School District IT Employee Sentenced to 21 Months for Cyberattacks on Former Employer
A former IT worker at an Iowa school district was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison after conducting a sustained cyberattack campaign against his...
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Lawmakers Demand Answers as CISA Tries to Contain Data Leak
Members of Congress are demanding answers from CISA after a contractor intentionally published AWS GovCloud access keys and a trove of agency secrets on a...
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Cyber Incident Responders Sentenced to 4 Years for Carrying
Two cybersecurity incident responders who abused their trusted positions to secretly carry out ransomware attacks against the organizations they were...
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US Ransomware Negotiators Get 4 Years in Prison Over
Two former cybersecurity incident responders from Sygnia and DigitalMint were each sentenced to four years in federal prison for leveraging their trusted...
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Former Incident Responders Sentenced to 4 Years for Ransomware Attacks on Clients
Ryan Goldberg and Kevin Martin, who worked as incident responders, were sentenced to four years in federal prison after using their trusted access to...
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New Jersey Men Sentenced to Combined 17 Years for Running
Two New Jersey men received prison sentences of nine and nearly eight years respectively for operating IT laptop farms that funneled over $5 million to...
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Former Cybersecurity Responders Plead Guilty to BlackCat Attacks
An incident response manager and a ransomware negotiator face up to 20 years after admitting to conducting BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks against...
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Ex-L3Harris Executive Pleads Guilty to Selling Eight
Peter Williams, former GM of L3Harris's cyber subsidiary Trenchant, admits to selling eight zero-day exploit kits to a Russian broker for $1.3M in...