Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

authorities have seized the darknet websites run by LockBit , a prolific and destructive ransomware group that has claimed more than 2,000 victims worldwide and extorted over $120 million in payments. First surfacing in September 2019, the gang is estimated to have made hundreds of millions of U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

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Ransomware Encryption Insurance Manufacturing 282

Adam Levin

JUNE 30, 2020

We’re not even halfway through 2020, and already it’s been a record-breaking year for ransomware attacks. Manufacturing giant Honda had its networks brought to a standstill by just such an attack. Manufacturing giant Honda had its networks brought to a standstill by just such an attack. What can CEOs do?

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Ransomware Insurance Cybersecurity Manufacturing 74

IT Governance

APRIL 1, 2021

We typically expect ambiguity when it comes to ransomware, because organisations are locked out of their files and can’t calculate what’s been affected. Ransomware. The issue is that in far more cases than we’d expect, the number of breached records wasn’t included in the notification, so we can’t include it here. Cyber attacks.

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Data breaches Ransomware Manufacturing e-Delivery 130

IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

LockBit claims responsibility for Capital Health security incident The LockBit ransomware group has claimed responsibility for an attack on Capital Health , a healthcare provider in Pennington, New Jersey, last November. KG Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Manufacturing Germany Yes 1.1 Data breached: 41,500,000 records.

Data Privacy 75

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Data breaches 75

IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Part one covers January to June, and will be followed by part in the coming days.

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Data breaches GDPR Passwords Personal data 69

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes and retails its eyewear brands, including LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Target Optical, Eyemed vision care plan, and Glasses.com. billion in revenue for 2019. Luxottica Group S.p.A.

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Data breaches Insurance Retail Ransomware 77

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

However, at this moment in history, two particularly worrisome types of cyber attacks are cycling up and hitting local government entities hard: ransomware sieges and election tampering. We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019. population 12,046, paid $460,000, respectively, for ransomware decryption keys.

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