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Data Breach Today
JULY 29, 2021
Patch Management and Locking Down Remote Desktop Protocol Remain Essential Defenses Ransomware operations continue to thrive thanks to a vibrant cybercrime-as-a-service ecosystem designed to support all manner of online attacks.
Krebs on Security
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. Another ransomware family tied to Evil Corp.
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Krebs on Security
JUNE 14, 2022
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. ” A Little Sunshine Ransomware The Coming Storm ALPHV ransomware BlackCat ransomware Brett Callow Emsisoft
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Intel 471’s Michael DeBolt Says Anti-Ransomware Actions Will Take Time What is the future of ransomware, and is it going to continue with the same intensity of the last few years? But ransomware isn’t going away soon
Speaker: Karl Camilleri, Cloud Services Product Manager at phoenixNAP
Through a detailed analysis of major attacks and their consequences, Karl Camilleri, Cloud Services Product Manager at phoenixNAP, will discuss the state of ransomware and future predictions, as well as provide best practices for attack prevention and recovery.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Intel 471’s Michael DeBolt Says Anti-Ransomware Actions Will Take Time What is the future of ransomware, and is it going to continue with the same intensity of the last few years? But ransomware isn’t going away soon
Krebs on Security
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. PWC’s timeline of the days leading up to the deployment of Conti ransomware on May 14.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 23, 2022
Accenture's Robert Boyce Advises Firms to Update Monitoring and Approval Processes Accenture analyzed the top 20 most active ransomware leak sites to see how threat actors are posting sensitive corporate information and making the data easy to search and exploit.
Data Breach Today
JULY 14, 2022
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes why the number of ransomware attacks and the amounts being paid in ransoms are both on the rise.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 17, 2022
Incident Is Among Latest Fallout From Attacks on Healthcare Sector Entities A New York-based practice management vendor has notified 28 healthcare entity clients and more than 942,000 of their patients that sensitive information was compromised in a ransomware attack in April.
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Dark Reading
JULY 14, 2021
Hit by ransomware? These missteps can take a bad scenario and make it even worse
Krebs on Security
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. “Ransomware has gathered a critical mass of nonsense, b t, hype, and fuss around it.
Krebs on Security
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.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 9, 2022
Victims Often Attacked Simultaneously by Multiple Ransomware Groups Cybercriminals monitor leak sites for newly listed ransomware victims in a bid to try their own hand at dropping encryption malware, says Sophos.
Krebs on Security
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.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 22, 2022
The Risks of Operating Legacy Technology with Limited Security Resources While healthcare as an industry is being most targeted by ransomware, health or medical clinics are by far the hardest hit
Krebs on Security
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. The DarkSide ransomware note.
Data Breach Today
JULY 29, 2022
Midsized Businesses Are the New Frontier for Ransomware Demands Here's unwelcome ransomware news: When a ransomware victim chooses to pay a ransom, the average amount has increased to $228,125, reports ransomware incident response firm Coveware.
Krebs on Security
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. ransomware-as-a-service gang actually includes a solicitation for insiders in the desktop wallpaper left behind on systems encrypted with the malware.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 14, 2022
Accenture's Robert Boyce on Adopting an Effective Communications Plan Accenture's new ransomware report reveals key challenges in executing an effective communications plan.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
It’s bad enough that many ransomware gangs now have blogs where they publish data stolen from companies that refuse to make an extortion payment. Now, one crime group has started using hacked Facebook accounts to run ads publicly pressuring their ransomware victims into paying up.
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
TTEC , [ NASDAQ: TTEC ], a company used by some of the world’s largest brands to help manage customer support and sales online and over the phone, is dealing with disruptions from a network security incident resulting from a ransomware attack, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 15, 2022
Ifigeneia Lella of ENISA Calls Out Major Gaps in Incident Reporting ENISA’s new "Threat Landscape for Ransomware Attacks" report analyzes 623 ransomware incidents in the EU, U.K.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Bitdefender has released a free decryptor to allow the victims of the LockerGoga ransomware to recover their files without paying a ransom. The LockerGoga ransomware operation has been active since January 2019, it targeted organizations worldwide, including the aluminum giant Norsk Hydro.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 14, 2020
NASDAQ:RCM ], one of the nation’s largest medical debt collection companies, has been hit in a ransomware attack. R1 RCM acknowledged taking down its systems in response to a ransomware attack, but otherwise declined to comment for this story. R1 RCM Inc.
Krebs on Security
APRIL 18, 2022
Conti — one of the most ruthless and successful Russian ransomware groups — publicly declared during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic that it would refrain from targeting healthcare providers.
Data Breach Today
MAY 19, 2022
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the changes in the ransomware landscape one year after the attack on Colonial Pipeline. It also revisits the Ryuk ransomware attack on a school district in Illinois and examines common culprits hindering effective Zero Trust adoption
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 4, 2022
Is a practicing cardiologist living in Venezuela also a ransomware mastermind? The Ransomware Files" podcast looks at the evidence prosecutors claim Moises Luis Zagala Gonzalez is a cybercriminal polymath. But Zagala's wife says he is innocent and there's a reason for his predicament.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 7, 2022
Three stories here last week pored over several years’ worth of internal chat records stolen from the Conti ransomware group, the most profitable ransomware gang in operation today. penned a two-part analysis on why smart contracts will make ransomware more profitable.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 29, 2022
Errol Weiss Says Industry Lacks Resources to Improve Cybersecurity The healthcare industry continues to be targeted by ransomware gangs, but there are efforts underway to help improve the health sector's information security resiliency.
Krebs on Security
MAY 11, 2020
Diebold Nixdorf , a major provider of automatic teller machines (ATMs) and payment technology to banks and retailers, recently suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted some operations. Ransomware BleepingComputer Diebold Nixdorf Emsisoft Fabian Wosar Lawrence Abrams ProLock ransomware
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Uptycs researchers recently spotted a new Linux ransomware that appears to be under active development. The Uptycs Threat Research team recently observed an Executable and Linkable Format ( ELF ) ransomware which encrypts the files inside Linux systems based on the given folder path.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
As ransomware attacks continue to evolve, beyond using security best practices organizations can build resiliency with extended detection and response solutions and fast response times to shut down attacks
Krebs on Security
JULY 1, 2020
We’ve seen an ugly trend recently of tech news stories and cybersecurity firms trumpeting claims of ransomware attacks on companies large and small, apparently based on little more than the say-so of the ransomware gangs themselves. Ransomware ransomware
Krebs on Security
JUNE 16, 2021
Authorities in Ukraine this week charged six people alleged to be part of the CLOP ransomware group , a cybercriminal gang said to have extorted more than half a billion dollars from victims.
Security Affairs
JULY 20, 2022
Kaspersky researchers discovered a new ransomware family written in Rust, named Luna, that targets Windows, Linux, and ESXi systems. Researchers from Kaspersky Lab detailed a new ransomware family named Luna, which is written in Rust and is able to target Windows, Linux, and ESXi systems.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 28, 2021
Uptick in Hive Ransomware Activity Spotted The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning about Hive ransomware after the group took down Memorial Health System last week.
Data Breach Today
MAY 24, 2021
Microsoft Says Spam Campaign Uses Updated Variant Microsoft is warning about a spam campaign that uses an updated variant of Java-based StrRAT malware that steals confidential data while disguising itself as a ransomware infection even though it does not actually encrypt data
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.
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