That's according to figures in the newly released 2019 CrowdStrike Global; Security Attitude Survey, which said the total number of organisations around the world that pay the ransom after falling victim to a supply-chain attack has more than doubled from 14% of victims to 39% of tho...
A ransomware attack has paralyzed the networks of at least 200 U.S. companies. That's according to a cybersecurity researcher whose company was responding to the incident.
The August 2019 Texas ransomware attack – what’s known at this point? The ransomware epidemic had been wreaking electronic havoc indiscriminately until around 2017, zeroing in on both end users and large IT networks. Then, the era of “mainstream” crypto viruses started to slowly succumb to ...
are a growing scourge in the United States . The Biden administration has pledged to disrupt and prosecute criminal networks like the one that attacked a major U.S. pipeline company in May.The attack on Colonial Pipeline, which led to gas shortages along the East...
City services in New Orleans were hobbled Monday as the city operated under an emergency declaration following a cyber attack that locked down its main computer networks. In the attack detected Friday, New Orleans became the latest major city to be hit byransomwarein what has become an epidemic...
However, that may not have been the best of intentions, given that the ransomware group responsible for the attack has already made the stolen information public. As reported today by Bleeping Computer, the ransomware gang Money Message took responsibility for the attack on March 12th. A...
A city in Georgia successfully avoided suffering any data loss after experiencing its third ransomware attack of the year.
Since the outbreak, Microsoft Intelligence Protection team’s data has shown that every country in the world has seen at least one COVID-19 themed attack, and the volume of successful attacks in outbreak-hit countries seems to be increasing, as fear and the desire for information grows. ...
Businesses around the world rushed Saturday to contain a ransomware attack that has paralyzed their computer networks, a situation complicated in the U.S. by offices lightly staffed at the start of the Fourth of July holiday ...
Allan Liska, an intelligence analyst at the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, said it's highly unusual for a politically active group such as the NRA to be targeted by ransomware gangs, but he said there is no evidence the attack was politically motivated. He said ransomware gangs usually do...