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MKS Instruments Ransomware Attack Results in $200M Sales Hit

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Attack Removed MKS' Ability to Process Orders, Ship Products or Provide Services MKS Instruments expects a $200 million revenue hit from February's ransomware attack after the hack removed the company's ability to process orders or ship products.

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Turkish Hackers Exploit MS SQL Servers to Deliver Ransomware

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Financially Motivated Actors Targeting US, EU and LATAM Countries Financially motivated Turkish hackers are targeting Microsoft SQL servers in the United States, Europe and Latin America in hacking that ultimately ends with deployment of Mimic ransomware or the sale of access to infected hosts on criminal online markets.

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Ransomware activity and network access sales in Q3 2022

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Ransomware activity report: Threat actors are selling access to hundreds of organizations, with a cumulative requested price of around $4M. KELA identified around 600 victims by analyzing ransomware actors’ blogs and negotiation portals, data leak sites and public reports. ” reads the report published by the experts.

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Sweden’s liquor supply severely impacted by ransomware attack on logistics company

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A ransomware attack on a Swedish logistics company Skanlog severely impacted the country’s liquor supply. Skanlog, a critical distributor for Systembolaget, the Swedish government-owned retail chain suffered a ransomware attack. Systembolaget has a monopoly on the sale of alcoholic beverages containing more than 3.5%

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Criminals' Wish List: Who's Their Ideal Ransomware Victim?

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Revenue, Size, Geography and Level of Access Help Determine Sale Price for Access The most sought-after type of victim for ransomware-wielding attackers is a large, U.S.-based

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Gaming Company Confirms Ragnar Locker Ransomware Attack

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Capcom Says Over 350,000 Customer, Business Records Possibly Compromised Japanese computer game company Capcom acknowledged this week that a November security incident was a Ragnar Locker ransomware attack that resulted in about 350,000 customer and company records potentially compromised, including sales and shareholder data.

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Sodinokibi Ransomware Gang Targets POS Software

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Symantec: Attackers Use Weaponized Cobalt Strike to Spread Malware The Sodinokibi ransomware gang is targeting point-of-sale payment device software after infecting networks with its crypto-locking malware, according to Symantec.