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MAY 16, 2023

government says has been a key actor in Russian ransomware hacking faces federal criminal charges, economic sanctions and a $10 million reward for information leading to his arrest. Mikhail Matveev, aka Wazawaka, was a central figure of the Babuk ransomware-as-a-service gang.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Victims Still Learning Their Personal Data Was Illegally Accessed, Copied in 2021 A ransomware attack on the Irish healthcare system in 2021 has cost the government 80 million euros in damages and counting.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Advisory Urges Multifactor Authentication, Network Segmentation, Patching and More The pace of Conti ransomware attacks has been increasing, with more than 400 organizations globally having fallen victim, warns a joint cybersecurity advisory from the U.S.

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JANUARY 16, 2023

Pity the overworked ransomware gang - say, LockBit - that just "discovered" one of its affiliates hit Britain's postal service. But until Western governments find a way to truly disrupt the ransomware business model, operators remain free to keep spouting half-truths and lies at victims' expense.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Maze was one of the most notorious and successful ransomware operations of recent years until its apparent "retirement" and handover to Egregor in November 2020. Some rivals have suggested both groups have ties to the Russian government. Supposed Rivals Said Maze Gang Had Moscow Backing - But Was That Just Sour Grapes?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Governor Describes 'Aggressive' Incident Response Efforts After a ransomware attack on Monday forced Louisiana's government to take several servers and websites offline to prevent the malware from spreading, state officials spent Tuesday restoring online services.

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APRIL 29, 2021

Some of the world’s top tech firms are backing a new industry task force focused on disrupting cybercriminal ransomware gangs by limiting their ability to get paid, and targeting the individuals and finances of the organized thieves behind these crimes. ” A proposed framework for a public-private operational ransomware campaign.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Government Agencies and Private Sector Affected by Attack on IT Sercices Provider A ransomware attack on a New Zealand third party managed IT service provider impacted several government agencies across the country – including the Ministry of Justice and the national health authority.

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AUGUST 19, 2021

Criminal hackers will try almost anything to get inside a profitable enterprise and secure a million-dollar payday from a ransomware infection. ” This attacker’s approach may seem fairly amateur, but it would be a mistake to dismiss the threat from West African cybercriminals dabbling in ransomware. ” Image: Sophos.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

SERNAC Struggling to Recover From Ongoing Attack; No Other Agencies Affected Chile's national consumer protection agency was hit by a ransomware attack affecting online services and containing indicators connecting the malware with the Conti ransomware-as-a-service group.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

Cybercrime Gang Wields Phishing Emails and Proficiency for VMware Environments Beware ransomware and data extortion shakedowns that trace to a cybercrime gang called Daixin Team, which is especially targeting the healthcare sector, as well as wielding phishing emails and a proficiency with VMware server environments, warns a new U.S.

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MARCH 1, 2022

A Ukrainian security researcher this week leaked several years of internal chat logs and other sensitive data tied to Conti , an aggressive and ruthless Russian cybercrime group that focuses on deploying its ransomware to companies with more than $100 million in annual revenue. “There will be panic. 428 hospitals.”

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JUNE 1, 2022

500,000 Euros Budgeted to Restore Affected Systems, Boost Cybersecurity In the aftermath of the BlackCat ransomware attack on May 24, 2022, that "severely affected" government services in Carinthia, the Austrian state has budgeted 500,000 euros to restore services and boost its cybersecurity and reinstated its passport issuance system, which was affected (..)

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Big Game Hunting Is Out and 'Mid Game Hunting' Is In, Coveware Warns When a business, government agency or other organization hit by ransomware opted to pay a ransom to its attacker in Q3, the average payment was $140,000, reports ransomware incident response firm Coveware.

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MAY 31, 2022

Costa Rica’s national health service was hacked sometime earlier this morning by a Russian ransomware group known as Hive. The intrusion comes just weeks after Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared a state of emergency in response to a data ransom attack from a different Russian ransomware gang — Conti.

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

Government Authorities Issue Advisories Following Hospital Attack Government authorities in Israel are warning healthcare sector entities in the country of potential cyberattacks after a ransomware attack this week on Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in the city of Hadera.

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MAY 18, 2022

Ransomware Group Continues to Demand Ransom Payment From Besieged Government Ransomware group Conti, which has been holding to ransom crypto-locked Costa Rican government systems since April, has claimed on its leak site Conti News that it has "insiders" in the country's government, and that they are working toward the compromise of "other systems." (..)

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AUGUST 5, 2021

It’s nice when ransomware gangs have their bitcoin stolen, malware servers shut down, or are otherwise forced to disband. Indeed, some of the most destructive and costly ransomware groups are now in their third incarnation. Indeed, some of the most destructive and costly ransomware groups are now in their third incarnation.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland’s public health system. The unusually candid post-mortem found that nearly two months elapsed between the initial intrusion and the launching of the ransomware.

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MAY 11, 2021

The FBI confirmed this week that a relatively new ransomware group known as DarkSide is responsible for an attack that caused Colonial Pipeline to shut down 5,550 miles of pipe , stranding countless barrels of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel on the Gulf Coast. victim that earns $15 billion in annual revenue. Image: colpipe.com.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

The Russian government said today it arrested 14 people accused of working for “ REvil ,” a particularly aggressive ransomware group that has extorted hundreds of millions of dollars from victim organizations. The FSB said it arrested 14 REvil ransomware members, and searched more than two dozen addresses in Moscow, St.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2022

Cyber Research Labs reported a rise in ransomware attacks in the second quarter of 2022, small states are more exposed to these attacks. The experts warn of ransomware attacks against government organizations. They observed a total of 48 government organizations from 21 countries that were hit by 13 ransomware attacks in 2022.

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MAY 14, 2021

The DarkSide ransomware affiliate program responsible for the six-day outage at Colonial Pipeline this week that led to fuel shortages and price spikes across the country is running for the hills. The DarkSide message includes passages apparently penned by a leader of the REvil ransomware-as-a-service platform.

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JULY 14, 2021

Former Head of GCHQ Highlights Need for Getting Basics Right, Plus Government Action Ransomware-wielding criminals continue to find innovative new ways to extort victims, develop technically and sidestep skills shortages by delivering ransomware as a service, said Robert Hannigan, the former head of U.K.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

New Criminal Penalties, Assistance to Victims in the Ransomware Action Plan Australia plans to require businesses with more than $10 million in revenue to report ransomware attacks to the government, part of a comprehensive strategy to fight the attacks that also includes new criminal penalties and assistance to victims.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Also: BEC Attack Headaches and Inside the Nomad Bridge Hack In the latest weekly update, four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss key takeaways from ISMG's recent Government Summit, how hackers siphoned nearly $200 million from cryptocurrency bridge Nomad and how midsized businesses are the new frontier for ransomware.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Learning From Difficult Recoveries and Advice in Government Alerts As ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector continue to surge, entities should heed the lessons emerging from these incidents as well as the advice provided in alerts from government agencies, security experts say.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of whether businesses are stepping up their ransomware defenses in response to several warnings released by the U.S. governments highlighting the threat posed to infrastructure. Also featured are the Thingiverse data breach and airline fraud trends.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Security Experts on Vulnerabilities, Prevention Steps for State Governments The ransomware attack on Tamil Nadu's Public Department puts the spotlight on the preparedness to identify and stave off attacks.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

government accused Iran of turning a blind eye to ransomware hackers after indicting three men affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Tehran Under US Pressure for Violating Peacetime Cyberspace Norms The U.S.

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MAY 20, 2022

Rapid7's Jen Ellis Details Cross-Government Response, Impact of Russia-Ukraine War When Colonial Pipeline suffered an outage in May 2021 as a result of an attack by the DarkSide crime syndicate, numerous governments changed their approach to ransomware and began treating it as a national security threat, says Rapid7's Jen Ellis.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Head of NSA, Cyber Command Says US Will Continue to Battle Ransomware for Years Some of the highest-ranking cybersecurity officials in the U.S. government discussed the pervasive threat of ransomware on Tuesday, likening it to a clear issue of national security with the ability to inflict measurable damage on major world powers.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

In December 2021, researchers discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service named ALPHV (a.k.a. “ BlackCat “), considered to be the first professional cybercrime group to create and use a ransomware strain written in the Rust programming language. Image: Varonis. Image: Varonis. ” Meanwhile, the U.S.

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JUNE 18, 2023

government announced up to a $10 million bounty for information linking the Clop ransomware gang to a foreign government. The US goverment is offering up to a $10 million bounty for information linking CL0P Ransomware Gang or any other threat actors targeting U.S. critical infrastructure to a foreign government.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The company declined to discuss the exact cause of the disruption, but their response so far is straight out of the playbook for responding to ransomware incidents. Plano, Texas-based Tyler Technologies [ NYSE:TYL ] has some 5,300 employees and brought in revenues of more than $1 billion in 2019.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

In 2022, ransomware attacks targeted 105 state or municipal governments or agencies in the US, reads a report published by Emsisoft. Below are the attacks reported by Emsisoft: 105 local governments. ” The ransomware attack against local governments resulted in data theft in at least 27 of the 105 incidents (26 percent).

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

Companies victimized by ransomware and firms that facilitate negotiations with ransomware extortionists could face steep fines from the U.S. federal government if the crooks who profit from the attack are already under economic sanctions, the Treasury Department warned today. Image: Shutterstock.

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