The REvil offer to offer blanket decryption for all victims of the Kaseya attack in exchange for $70 million suggested its inability to cope with the sheer quantity of infected networks, said Allan Liska, an analyst with the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. Although analysts reported seeing dem...
Computer systems in New Orleans were hobbled by a ransomware attack, in the latest incident affecting local governments targted by cyber criminals 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...
The attack in Texas is similar to other ransomware attacks that have crippled digital operations in cities around the country in recent years, Elliott Sprehe, a department spokesman, said Tuesday. "Once it's activated, your computer system is effectively locked from use until you pay that ransom...
A method of detecting the onset of a ransomware attack is presented. In an example embodiment, file backup metadata for each of a plurality of computing devices is accessed and analyzed to detect anomalous file backup activity of individual ones of the computing devices. A determination is made ...
EDISON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s largest hospital system said Friday that a ransomware attack last week disrupted its computer network and that it paid a ransom to stop it.
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...
Hong Kong’s attack volume rose by 60 percent in the past year, to 0.24 in 2019. “Cybercriminals capitalize on drive-by download technique to target the organizations and end-users with the objective to steal valuable financial information or intellectual pro...
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), in its latestInternet Crime Report, listed LockBit (149),BlackCat(114), andHive(87) as the top three ransomware variants victimizing critical infrastructure in 2022. Despite LockBit's prolific attack spree, the ransomware gangsuffered a huge blowin...
But theextortion schemefell apart after the employee in question alerted the company of the incident, which then involved the FBI into the matter. "This was a serious attack," CEO Elon Musksaidin an August 2020 tweet. Kriuchkov, who previouslydenied any wrongdoingin September before a federal...
Ransomware In The News May 07, 2025 Talos Report: Phishing Attacks Surged in Q1 2025 Phishing was the initial access vector in 50% of attacks during the first quarter of 2025, according to a new report from Cisco Talos. “Threat actors ... ...