The ransomware battle is shifting — so should our response
WEB19 hours ago — Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is US Deputy National Security Adviser for Cyber and Emerging Technology Ransomware is wreaking ...
Latest Ransomware news - BleepingComputer
WEBMicrosoft warns that ransomware threat actor Storm-0501 has recently switched tactics and now targets hybrid cloud environments, expanding its strategy to compromise all victim assets. Bill...
Ransomware Is ‘More Brutal’ Than Ever in 2024 | WIRED
WEBJun 10, 2024 — Ransomware may be the defining cybercrime of the past decade, with criminals targeting a wide range of victims including hospitals, schools, and governments. The attackers encrypt critical data,...
Ransomware Payments Hit a Record $1.1 Billion in 2023
WEBFeb 7, 2024 — After a slowdown in payments to ransomware gangs in 2022, last year saw total ransom payouts jump to their highest level yet, according to a new report from crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis.
Ransomware attack on U.S. health care payment processor ... - NBC News
WEBMar 1, 2024 — Fallout from a ransomware attack on the country’s largest health care payment processor is “the most serious incident of its kind leveled against a U.S. health care organization,” American...
Ransomware hackers raked in $1 billion last year from victims - NBC News
WEBFeb 7, 2024 — Victims of ransomware paid their attackers more than $1 billion last year, a new report has found, a record high that shows that many cybercriminals are raking in money by extorting people...
FBI says it 'hacked the hackers' to shut down major ransomware group - NPR
WEBJan 26, 2023 — The FBI spent months spying on the ransomware group Hive and secretly helped victims before shutting the entire operation down.
Ransomware Attacks Are on the Rise, Again | WIRED
WEBJul 12, 2023 — Amid a concerted effort by global law enforcement to crack down on ransomware attacks, payments to hackers and even the volume of attacks fell in 2022. But the trend doesn’t seem to be holding...
Russian Ransomware Group Breached Federal Agencies in …
WEBJun 15, 2023 — A Russian ransomware group gained access to data from federal agencies, including the Energy Department, in an attack that exploited file transfer software to steal and sell back users’ data,...
What we know about the Kaseya ransomware attack that hit …
WEBJul 6, 2021 — Hackers hit a range of IT management companies and compromised their corporate clients by targeting a key software vendor called Kaseya. On Monday, the attackers requested a $70 million payment...