Ransomware

AI-powered ransomware fuels cybercrime

Artificial intelligence (AI) services are enabling unscrupulous online blackmailers to create fake but highly realistic sexually explicit photographs and videos

Cybercrime Kills

A patient’s death following a cyber-attack on the UK health sector by ransomware group Qilin has now been reported. The death has been confirmed by King’s

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CISA Names Karen Evans as Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has appointed Karen Evans a

‘Dark Unicorns’ target US healthcare

Ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector have risen by a third in 2024 with the US the prime target. Cybersecurity company Black Kite reports 374 incidents i

‘Hellcat’ is new breed of cybercriminal

A ransomware gang, Hellcat, that emerged in 2024 is being seen as representative of a new type of threat actor using off-the-shelf malware and innovative extort

AI enables ransomware boom

A new ransomware group, named Funksec, is the latest example of relatively inexperienced cybercriminals using AI to develop weaponized malware. The group claims

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Germans Arrest ‘Crimenetwork’ Gang German authorities have made arrests linked to drug-selling platform Crimenetwork, seizing over $1 million in crypto assets.

Ex-IT lead arrested for ransomware hit

The US New Jersey District Court has arrested a man accused of conducting a ransomware attack on a former employer, highlighting the growing “insider threat” or

AI Data Centers as Cybercrime Hot Spot

Big Tech’s rapidly-expanding server farms are becoming increasingly tempting targets for ransomware gangs. In their Gadarene rush to be first with AI-based serv

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Boeing Discloses $200M Ransomware Attempt Boeing made a significant disclosure: The LockBit ransomware group targeted the company, which demanded a staggering $

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Change Healthcare Hit by Another Potential Cyber Attack Arriving just a month after a paid ransom was demanded following the massive data breach in February 202

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‘INC Ransom’ Group Threatens to Release NHS Data The ‘INC Ransom’ ransomware group publicly threatened to release three terabytes of NHS

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Over 75% of Cyber Incidents Impacted Small Businesses in 2023 A Sophos report revealed that over 75% of small businesses were impacted by cyber incidents in 202

BlackCat Allows Healthcare Cyberattacks

Following actions taken against the infamous BlackCat ransomware group in December by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the cybercriminal gang has w

Geopolitically-Fueled US Cyberattacks

As geopolitical tensions and conflicts rise across the globe, so are cyber-attacks on critical Western infrastructure, particularly industrial facilities runnin

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International Law Enforcement Seizes LockBit’s Website U.S. and U.K. authorities announced the seizure of the LockBit ransomware gang’s extortion we

Increasing Critical Infrastructure Risk

France-based Schneider Electric became the latest utility company to succumb to a ransomware attack on January 17, when some of its business divisions serving s

Cyber-Gangs' 2024 Media Offensive

Cybercrime, which has become a multi-trillion-dollar industry over recent decades, became increasingly sophisticated during 2023, with criminal groups now adopt

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62% of Top Ransomware Groups Activated Remote Attacks in 2023 According to Sophos’ latest report, 62% of the most active ransomware groups in the world de

Russian Pleads Guilty to Cyber Attacks

IBM Consulting and Palo Alto Networks Announce Partnership Expansion In a press release published on December 4th, IBM Consulting and Palo Alto Networks announc

FBI targets casino cybercrime

This week, the cyber division of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a Private Industry Notification warning that ransomware gangs are now explo

BlackCat's Latest 'Munchkin' RaaS Tool

International investigation results in Paris arrest A ransomware hacker identified as a member of the Ragnar Locker hacker group has been arrested in Paris as p

Dark Web Ads Are Seeing A Massive Surge

RANSOMEDVC claims ‘complete infiltration of all Sony systems’ Ransomware group, RANSOMEDVC claims to have successfully breached the security system

BlackCat Gang Strikes Azure Cloud

BlackCat gang wields a new weapon to target cloud storage The BlackCat ransomware gang is now using the Sphynx encryptor to target Azure cloud storage. The Spyn

BlackCat sharpens its claws

The new version of BlackCat ransomware, initially observed by IBM in May, is now reported to be causing chaos worldwide via a previously undiscovered built-in f

Infamous Ransomware Groups Linked

Rhysida’s Link to Infamous Ransomware Group Check Point Incident Response Team (CPIRT), in collaboration with Check Point Research (CPR), published a report lin

$10M Reward for LockBit Mastermind – June 10th

$10M Reward for LockBit Mastermind The U.S. Government launched a manhunt for the LockBit ransomware mastermind, Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, for a bounty worth

27,000 Private Data Stolen from Stanford Ransomware Attack – March 12th

BianLian’s Extortion-Focused Shift GuidePoint’s Research and Intelligence Team (GRIT) observed a recent shift in threat actor group, BianLian to foc

Barracuda again the target of malware attack – August 14th

Monti Ransomware group is back The group, which has been quiet for an extended period of time, restarted its public operations and released a new encryptor for

BHI Energy comes clean about devastating data breach – October 24th

BHI Energy comes clean about devastating data breach US energy firm BHI Energy has shared details about an Akira ransomware gang attack that breached its networ

Cyber gangs hold healthcare ransom

Healthcare no longer off limits Cybercriminal groups have now completely abandoned any pretense that theirs are basically victimless crimes by attacking the hea

Cybercrime gets physical

Cyber-physical systems (CPS), such as operational technology (OT), the Internet of Things (IoT), building management systems (BMS) and connected media devices h

DDoS Attack on Pennsylvania Fails to Halt City Government – February 6th

LockBit Demands $11M From Spanish City The government office of Calvia, Majorca, Spain announced that the city is facing a ransomware attack from the LockBit ra

FBI nails Qakbot offender – August 30th

Critical vulnerability exploited by FIN8 threat actors Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway are vulnerable to opportunistic attacks by a ransomware group

FBI takes down BreachForums -again!

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the criminal hacking forum BreachForums after taking down its website last week. This follows the

Forty Countries Vow to Not Pay Cyber Ransoms – November 1st

Forty Countries Vow to Not Pay Cyber Ransoms Forty US-allied countries pledged to no longer pay cybercrime ransoms at the second annual meeting of the Internati

GhostSec exposes Iran’s surveillance of its citizens – August 28th

Hackers hold Prospect Medical’s data ‘hostage’ Hacker group Rhysida has been identified as the mastermind behind the recent ransomware attack

Companies Pay 1 Million In Ransomware Attacks