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JANUARY 30, 2024

Manufacturer Confirms Systems Down, Data on Energy Consumption, Emission Accessed Schneider Electric confirmed a ransomware attack has locked up corporate systems of its Schneider Electric Sustainability Business division and accessed data.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Victims Notified of Ransomware Attack Six Months After the Incident A cyberattack on a Canadian teachers’ union gave thieves access to sensitive data of more than 60,000 members The union is yet to disclose the exact number of affected individuals, but stated that both former and current members are impacted.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

MGM Resorts Continuing to Be Extorted by the Same Alphv/BlackCat Ransomware Group Casino and hotel giant Caesars Entertainment is warning customers that their personal details were stolen in a recent hack attack.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Paying for Promises That Can't Be Audited Paints a Repeat-Attack Target on Victims Many ransomware-wielding attackers are expert at preying on their victims' compulsion to clean up the mess.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

US and UK Water Giants Report Network Breaches and Data Leaks, But No Encryption Two major water providers in the U.S. report that they recently fell victim to ransomware attacks. In both cases, attackers appear to have stolen employee or customer data that they're now holding to ransom.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Extortionists Dump Private and Corporate Customer Data From European Car Giant Christmastime was bleak for a number of organizations in Britain that got hit with ransomware, including car dealership giant Arnold Clark, which originally reported that no customer data had been stolen.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

Ransomware Groups Listed 514 Victims in Total on Their Data Leak Sites Last Month The volume of known ransomware attacks surged last month to record-breaking levels, with groups collectively listing 514 victims on their data-leak sites, security researchers report.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

Operators Create a Dedicated Leak Site, Continue Recruiting Affiliates Yet another ransomware-wielding gang has threatened to steal and leak the data of any victims who refuse to pay a ransom: The operators of Avaddon ransomware have created a dedicated data-leak site that already lists a construction firm victim, and the gang continues to recruit (..)

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JUNE 27, 2022

Cyentia Institute Partner Wade Baker Shares Insights on Analyzing Ransomware Data Unlocking the data generated by ransomware attacks is helping organizations better understand the risks, adopt defensive technologies and prepare for future attacks, says Wade Baker, partner at Cyentia Institute.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Australia Regulator Says Such Breaches Are Likely Underreported Australia's data regulator says organizations hit by ransomware may be underreporting data breaches because they haven't thoroughly figured out if data was taken.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Report to State Regulators Indicates Big Jump in Number of Patients Affected A Mississippi health system is notifying nearly 253,000 individuals that their data was potentially compromised in a "malicious and sophisticated ransomware" attack last August that also took IT systems offline.

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JUNE 14, 2022

Cybercrime groups that specialize in stealing corporate data and demanding a ransom not to publish it have tried countless approaches to shaming their victims into paying. The latest innovation in ratcheting up the heat comes from the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group, which has traditionally published any stolen victim data on the Dark Web.

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MARCH 12, 2024

US Healthcare Entities Are Firmly in Akira Ransomware Group's Sights, Expert Warns Ransomware groups may come and go, but often it's only in name, as the individuals involved will move on to power whatever group remains a going concern.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

Consultancy Discloses Data Leak Tied to Attack For Which LockBit 2.0 ransomware operation has taken credit for the attack and dumping data. ransomware operation has taken credit for the attack and dumping data. The LockBit 2.0 The LockBit 2.0

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

Count of Victims - Listed on Leak Sites or Not - Appears To Be Holding Steady One measure of the damage being done by ransomware groups continues to be how many victims get listed on ransomware operators' dedicated data-leak sites, as part of their so-called double extortion tactics.

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JULY 7, 2020

Data-Leaking Extortionists' Revised Playbook Goes Way Beyond Ransomware Ransomware-wielding attackers continue to pummel organizations.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) disclosed today that it infiltrated the world’s second most prolific ransomware gang, a Russia-based criminal group known as ALPHV and BlackCat. BlackCat formed by recruiting operators from several competing or disbanded ransomware organizations — including REvil , BlackMatter and DarkSide.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

FTC Is Latest Agency to Rebuke Fundraising Firm for Lax Security in 2020 Attack The Federal Trade Commission is the latest regulatory agency taking action against fundraising and customer relationship management software provider Blackbaud in the aftermath of a 2020 ransomware incident that compromised the data of tens of thousands of clients and millions (..)

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Also: Fraud Trends; Cryptocurrency Regulatory Developments In the latest weekly update, editors at ISMG discuss whether police have seized ransomware group Alphv/BlackCat's data leak site, how fraudsters are adapting their tactics and techniques to exploit advancements in technology, and which cryptocurrency stories shaped the industry this year.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Extortionist Crypto-Locking Hackers Keep Hitting Healthcare Sector, Experts Report Once ransomware hackers get inside a healthcare sector organization's systems, three out of four attackers will also maliciously encrypt data, says security firm Sophos.

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MAY 14, 2020

managed care company that focuses on specialty areas of healthcare, says it was hit by a ransomware attack that involved the exfiltration of data. Ransomware gangs are increasingly going beyond encrypting data, stealing information to put more pressure on victims to pay ransoms.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Tongue-in-Cheek Ransom Note Claims 'Modest Royalty' for 'Pentesting Services' Attackers wielding Royal ransomware have been hitting crypto-locking healthcare targets, the U.S.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Finnish IT Services Previews Days or Weeks of Disruption, Ties Attack to Akira An Akira ransomware attack that hit a data center run by Finnish IT software and services firm Tietoevry has led to widespread outages across Sweden.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

22% of Ransomware Incidents Now Involve Data Exfiltration, Investigators Find Ransomware gangs are increasingly not just claiming that they'll leak data if victims don't pay, but following through. On average, about a quarter of all successful ransomware attacks feature a gang claiming to have first stolen data.

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APRIL 18, 2024

Experts See Groups Shoot Themselves in the Foot by Yet Again Swindling Affiliates Here's ransomware news to celebrate: The number of victims who opt to pay a ransom has dropped to a record low.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Major Drama in the Online Underworld Who's been disrupting ransomware operations' data leak sites by targeting them with distributed denial-of-service attacks? No one has yet claimed credit for the ongoing disruptions and slowdowns, but one likely theory is that rival operations are attempting to cause each other pain.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

Data From Trigona's Servers Exfiltrated and Wiped Out, Reads a Note on Leak Site Pro-Ukrainian hackers claimed responsibility for wiping the servers of the Trigona ransomware gang, a recently formed group that may have links to the Russian cybercriminal underground.

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MARCH 6, 2023

Group Threatens Full Data Dump If Its Extortion Demands Are Not Met Play ransomware hackers attempting to extort the San Francisco Bay Area city of Oakland dumped 10 gigabytes of stolen information over the weekend and threatened that more dumps may come.

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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. Ivan Gennadievich Kondratyev , a.k.a.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

IoT Chipmaker Threated With Additional Data Leaks The gang behind the Conti ransomware variant has posted data to its darknet website that it says it stole during a ransomware attack on industrial IoT chipmaker Advantech last month. The company reportedly confirmed the attack on Monday.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2024

The Dark Angels (Dunghill) ransomware group claims the hack of the chipmaker Nexperia and the theft of 1 TB of data from the company. The Dark Angels (Dunghill) ransomware group claims responsibility for hacking chipmaker Nexperia and stealing 1 TB of the company’s data. Gb AWACS software - 13 Gb.esm files - 1.9

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Aerospace Giant Says Elements of Parts and Distribution Business Are Affected Boeing has confirmed suffering a "cyber incident" affecting its parts and distribution business days after the notorious LockBit ransomware group claimed to have breached systems at the world's biggest aerospace company and to have stolen "a tremendous amount of sensitive (..)

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Ransomware Group Declares Nothing Off Limits Outside of CIS Countries The BlackCat ransomware as service operation's putative "unseizing" of its leak site from the FBI is a stunt made possible by way the dark web handles address resolution, security researchers said Monday.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 2, 2020

The criminal group behind the REvil ransomware enterprise has begun auctioning off sensitive data stolen from companies hit by its malicious software. A partial screenshot from the REvil ransomware group’s Dark Web blog. and Europe in early March.”

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AUGUST 28, 2023

Fallout From Crypto-Locking Malware Attacks and Data Exfiltration Remains Costly Ransomware and data-exfiltration attacks are continuing to stick victims with serious bills to cover cleanup, legal and other resulting costs - to the tune of $10.8

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