Hive

The best output comes from employees who are happy and who are allowed to work the way they want to. This is the central premise of the Hive app and it provides the necessary features to allow that to happen. Notably, organizations and teams juggle between various projects and tasks, making it challenging to keep up with every update and organize your day effectively. To manage projects and teams effectively, companies are now taking advantage of project management tools that can help them to effectively plan tasks, time…

The State Department is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information about the identity or location of the leaders of a global ransomware gang, known as Hive, the agency announced on Thursday. It is also offering up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of anyone involved with Hive. The ransomware gang has extorted more than $100 million in ransom payments from hospitals, schools, financial firms and critical infrastructure since June 2021. Late last month, the Justice…

Over several seasons, Destiny 2 has blurred the line between good and evil in the battle between the Light and the Darkness. Yesterday's enemies are today's allies, and recently, we've seen the Cabal join forces with the Guardians alongside a new Eliksni house in defiance of the Witness and its grand scheme to bring about the Final Shape of the universe. While there's still no shortage of threats out there, including the Taken, Red Legion remnants, and the Vex, humanity at least has a few allies in its…

Well, pluck me running The Wild Gentlemen and Joystick Ventures have announced that the Chicken Police are returning in Chicken Police: Into the Hive. It’s currently set for release sometime in 2024. I didn’t play Chicken Police: Paint it RED when it was released in 2020, but did pick it up the following year. It was fantastic. I may have missed its review window, but I still ended up praising it high-and-low in a later article. While the first game stuck to its noir trappings, it was a strangely optimistic story…

Ransomware threats continued an upward trajectory in 2022 and the year saw ransomware gangs broaden their attacks with increased frequency and complexity, a report said. According to India’s nodal cybersecurity agency, Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the country saw a 53% year-over-year (YoY) increase in ransomware incidents in the year 2022. According to CERT-In’s “India Ransomware Report 2022”, IT and ITeS was the most targeted sector, followed by finance and manufacturing. Education, healthcare, transport,…

Researchers have enlisted a new kind of helper to monitor the microbiomes of cities around the world: the honeybee. A recently published analysis shows that the debris which gathers at the bottom of their hives can reveal a great deal about what's going on in their urban environments.Much like our guts, cities too have microbiomes, a composite of various types of microorganisms that thrive in the environment. And, much like analyzing the microbiome in our guts can reveal important details about our physical condition,…

Ransomware attacks, in which hackers encrypt a computer system and then extort victims to pay up or risk losing access to their data, have harmed targets ranging from individuals to powerful entities. Victims have included large companies such as the meat supplier JBS, major infrastructure such as the Colonial Pipeline and entire countries such as Costa Rica. Last week the Department of Justice announced some rare good news about this criminal industry: The FBI infiltrated a major ransomware group called Hive and obtained…

Image: santima.studio (Shutterstock)Via a sophisticated “cyber stakeout,” the FBI pwned Hive, one of the most prolific and dangerous ransomware gangs on the web. While little is known about who is behind Hive or where the gang’s core members are located, we know one thing for sure: these guys are giant douchebags. This much is obvious because Hive has spent much of its cybercriminal career going after hospitals and medical organizations—even during the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, the gang has taken swings at a lot…

Photo: Win McNamee (Getty Images)In one of the FBI’s most sophisticated cybercrime operations to date, agents infiltrated and spent approximately six months embedded in a prominent ransomware gang’s network, Justice Department officials announced Thursday. That gang, known as Hive, was disrupted earlier this week when agents seized its server infrastructure and also took down its website.Speaking Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland characterized Hive as “an international ransomware network responsible for…

WASHINGTON—U.S. authorities seized the servers of the notorious Hive ransomware group after entering its networks and capturing keys to decrypt its software, the Justice Department said on Thursday, calling its effort a “21st-century cyber stakeout.”The group linked to Hive ransomware is widely seen by authorities and cybersecurity experts as one of the most prolific and dangerous cybercriminal actors in recent years. They have been linked to attacks on more than 1,500 victims including hospitals and schools—and have…