Welcome to Cyber Security Today. From Toronto, this is the Week in Review edition for the week ending Friday October 28th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter for ITWorldCanada.com.
This week’s discussion segment will have a roundup of coverage from our MapleSec conference last week, with IT World Canada CIO Jim Love, reporter Paul Barker and I reviewing some of the sessions we were at. They covered everything from ransomware to the roles of CISOs.
But before we get to that, a look back at some of the headlines from the past seven days:
A U.S. grand jury has charged a Ukrainian citizen with allegedly being involved with the distribution of the Racoon Infostealer. This is a malware-as-a-service operation that steals data from infected computers. It is alleged that more than 50 million unique credentials and other data was stolen from millions of victims. The accused man was arrested by Dutch authorities and is now awaiting an extradition hearing to the U.S.
A British man who allegedly operated a dark web market for stolen data called The Real Deal has been arraigned in a U.S. court in Atlanta to face trial. He had been extradited from Cyprus to the United…
