Satan RaaS Promises Large Gains With Zero Coding Needed

A newly discovered family of ransomware is being offered via the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) business model, allowing cybercriminals to easily customize their own versions of the malware, researchers explain. Dubbed Satan, the new ransomware family was discovered by security researcher Xylitol and is available for any wannabe criminal, as the service only requires the creation of…

Corporate Legal Counsels Fret Over Cybersecurity

A majority of in-house legal counsels at US corporations view data breaches and cross-border data privacy regulations as among their biggest e-discovery related legal risks. BDO Consulting, a company that provides financial, business, and technology advisory services, recently surveyed over 100 senior legal executives at organizations ranging in size from $100 million to over $5…

Encrypted email service ProtonMail is now accessible over Tor

The creators of encrypted email service ProtonMail have set up a server that’s only accessible over the Tor anonymity network as a way to fight possible censorship attempts in some countries. ProtonMail was created by computer engineers who met while working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The service provides end-to-end encrypted email…

The 4 Top Barriers To Effective Incident Response

Responding to cyberattacks is straightforward in some ways, difficult in others. Here are four ways that the process can get tripped up. Cyberattacks are getting worse, growing in frequency and impact. This probably isn’t a surprising statement for anyone reading Dark Reading. Most organizations understand this and are taking measures to prevent and detect threats….

New Mac backdoor using antiquated code

The first Mac malware of 2017 was brought to my attention by an IT admin, who spotted some strange outgoing network traffic from a particular Mac. This led to the discovery of a piece of malware unlike anything I’ve seen before, which appears to have actually been in existence, undetected, for some time, and which seems to…