InfoSec News Nuggets 02/22/2023

Ransomware Gang Seeks to Exploit Victims' Insurance Coverage  A ransomware group is asking insured victims for details about their policy, claiming it will ultimately lower their risk exposure. Introduced in November 2022, HardBit 2.0 claims to steal data before encrypting the victim organization’s data, but unusually for such a group it has no leak site and does not use “double extortion” as a tactic, according to Varonis. Instead, the group apparently threatens further attacks if its demands aren’t met. “Rather…
Read More

InfoSec News Nuggets 03/04/2022

Learn a New Survival Skill: Spotting Deepfakes The word "deepfake" is a combination of "deep learning" and "fake." Deepfakes are falsified pictures, videos, or audio recordings. Sometimes the people in them are computer-generated, fake identities that look and sound like they could be real people. Sometimes the people are real, but their images and voices are manipulated into doing and saying things they didn’t do or say. For example, a deepfake video could be used…
Read More