Badri Narayanan

NEW Cooperative, an Iowa-based farm cooperative was recently hit by a ransomware attack that forced it to take its systems offline. NEW Cooperative has operations in over 50 locations and provides a variety of digital and software services to its network of farmers. The ransomware group BlackMatter is reportedly behind the attack. Security experts believe that BlackMatter is either being run by…

The FBI, National Security Agency, and the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency issued a joint advisory on Sept 22, 2021, warning US organizations to prepare for a rise in Conti ransomware attacks and urged them to apply mitigations suggested. The joint advisory noted that the Conti ransomware has been used in over 400 attacks targeting the US and international…

In the wake of the recent Microsoft Azure vulnerability, ChaosDB, security experts are stressing that organizations, especially those that rely on public cloud infrastructure can no longer delay adopting the zero-trust model. Cloud security firm Wiz, which first discovered the vulnerability in Microsoft Azure’s managed database service, Cosmos DB said that the vulnerability gave threat…

Ransomware attacks in the US spiked during all major holiday weekends this year, including Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, and the Independence day weekends. It looks like when employees are taking a break, ransomware gangs are getting to work. The worrying trend has prompted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI to issue an advisory to all US government and…