Tag: ransomware

July 25, 2024

The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) and more than three dozen healthcare providers from 22 U.S. states have filed a lawsuit against Change Healthcare, Optum, and UnitedHealth Group. The lawsuit stems from the catastrophic ransomware attack and subsequent data breach […]

July 18, 2024

Prolific Russian cybercrime syndicate FIN7 is using various pseudonyms to sell its custom security solution-disabling malware to different ransomware gangs. AvNeutralizer malware was previously thought to be solely linked to the Black Basta group, but fresh research has uncovered various […]

July 17, 2024

Costs associated with ransomware attacks on critical national infrastructure (CNI) organizations skyrocketed in the past year. According to Sophos’ latest figures, released today, the median ransom payments rose to $2.54 million – a whopping 41 times last year’s sum of […]

July 11, 2024

Yet another new ransomware gang, this one dubbed EstateRansomware, is now exploiting a Veeam vulnerability that was patched more than a year ago to deploy file-encrypting malware, a LockBit variant, and extort payments from victims. Veeam fixed the flaw, tracked […]

July 9, 2024

Evolve Bank & Trust says the data of more than 7.6 million customers was stolen during the LockBit break-in in late May, per a fresh filing with Maine’s attorney general. The filing lists the total number of persons affected (including […]

July 8, 2024

It’s been a week of bad cyber security revelations for OpenAI, after news emerged that the startup failed to report a 2023 breach of its systems to anybody outside the organization, and that its ChatGPT app for macOS was coded […]

July 2, 2024

The number of financial institutions caught up in the ransomware attack on Evolve Bank & Trust continues to rise as fintech businesses Wise and Affirm both confirm they have been materially affected. News of Evolve being compromised by extortionists broke […]

June 25, 2024

You know that a technology problem is serious when the White House holds a summit about it. Ransomware is no longer a simple nerd-borne irritation; it’s an organized criminal scourge. Research from the Enterprise Systems Group (ESG) found 79 percent […]

June 24, 2024

When two stories from opposite ends of the IT universe boil down to the same thing, sound the klaxons. At the uber-fashionable AI end of tech, Meta has grudgingly complied with a ruling not to feed European social media crap […]

June 17, 2024

Notorious cyber gang UNC3944 – the crew suspected of involvement in the recent attacks on Snowflake and MGM Entertainment, and plenty more besides – has changed its tactics and is now targeting SaaS applications According to Google Cloud’s Mandiant threat […]

May 29, 2024

A brand-new cybercrime group that Microsoft ties to North Korea is tricking targets using fake job opportunities to launch malware and ransomware, all for financial gain. Microsoft tracks this group as “Moonstone Sleet” and says it has been active since […]

May 28, 2024

The revelation follows an incident from earlier in May that forced the auction house’s online bidding system offline, an event which the company said at the time was due to a “technology security issue.” It also closely follows the RansomHub […]

May 22, 2024

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants to clarify guidelines for public companies regarding the disclosure of ransomware and other cybersecurity incidents. According to the breach reporting rules the federal agency adopted in July, public companies must disclose material […]

May 22, 2024

Canadian pharmacy chain London Drugs has confirmed that ransomware thugs stole some of its corporate files containing employee information and says it is “unwilling and unable to pay ransom to these cybercriminals.” In a statement to The Register, the British […]

May 17, 2024

Australian prescriptions provider MediSecure is the latest healthcare org to fall victim to a ransomware attack, with crooks apparently stealing patients’ personal and health data. “While we continue to gather more information, early indicators suggest the incident originated from one […]

May 17, 2024

On May 5th, 2024, the City of Wichita, Kansas, was the victim of a ransomware attack and shut down its network to contain the threat. The city immediately started its incident response procedure to prevent the threat from spreading and […]

May 15, 2024

The FBI, in combination with police around the world, have taken control of the website and Telegram channel of ransomware brokerage site BreachForums. The action occurred on Wednesday, just days after the site hosted information apparently stolen from Europol’s databases […]

May 9, 2024

The U.S. Department of Justice has unsealed charges against a Russian national accused of developing and operating the notorious LockBit ransomware, one of the most destructive and lucrative cybercrime operations in recent years. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, 31, of Voronezh, Russia, […]

May 9, 2024

Ransomware and extortion incidents surged by 67% in 2023, according to NTT Security Holdings’ 2024 Global Threat Intelligence Report. Global ransomware crisis After a down year in 2022, ransomware and extortion incidents increased in 2023. More than 5,000 ransomware victims […]

May 7, 2024

Ransomware infections have morphed into “a psychological attack against the victim organization,” as criminals use increasingly personal and aggressive tactics to force victims to pay up, according to Google-owned Mandiant. “We saw situations where threat actors essentially SIM swap the […]