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Russian Orgs Heavily Targeted By Smaller Tier Ransomware Gangs Even though American and European companies enjoy the lion’s share of ransomware attacks launched from Russian ground, companies in the country aren’t spared from having to deal with file encryption and double-extortion troubles of their own. The actors who trouble Russian and CIS-based companies in general
Mozilla Upgrades Older Thunderbird Clients To The Latest Version Mozilla is rolling out a forced upgrade for Thunderbird 78.x users, getting everyone aboard version 91, the latest stable release that came out in August. A similar forced upgrade was performed last year for users of 68.x who were automatically bumped to 78. Mozilla does this
Engineering Giant Weir Group Hit By Ransomware Attack Scottish multinational engineering firm Weir Group has disclosed an “attempted ransomware attack” that led to “significant temporary disruption” in September. “The Group is currently managing the consequences of a sophisticated attempted ransomware attack that occurred in the second half of September,” the firm said in a Q3
Microsoft: Russian State Hackers Behind 53% Of Attacks On US Govt Agencies Microsoft says that Russian-sponsored hacking groups are increasingly targeting US government agencies, with roughly 58% of all nation-state attacks observed by Microsoft between July 2020 and June 2021 coming from Russia. “Russian nation-state actors are increasingly targeting government agencies for intelligence gathering, which jumped from