Here you will find all the articles with the tag: ransomware.
The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report survey shows that ransomware is one of the leading variants in breaches. Yet statistically, the share of ransomware remains stable at 24 percent, while there were significant increases in previous years. Studies around breaches and incidents regularl... Read more
11 months ago
The Clop ransomware gang says it is responsible for recent attacks via the vulnerability in Progress' MOVEit file-transfer service. Victims have been affected through their supply chain. According to a representative of the cybercriminals, the Clop ransomware gang has been exploiting the vulnera... Read more
11 months ago
New research by Veeam shows that attacks almost always (93%) target backups. That way, they try to force payment of the ransom. The Veeam 2023 Ransomware Trends Report research was unveiled at the VeeamON conference. According to Jason Buffington and Dave Russell, who explained the results to T... Read more
11 months ago
The ransomware group Money Message has stolen the data of 5.8 million patients. The ransomware gang also breached the servers of Brightspring Health Services. This week BleepingComputer reported that the Money Message ransomware group had stolen the personal data of 5.8 million patients of the P... Read more
11 months ago
Cybercriminals can attack just about anyone, even the security experts who typically protect other organizations. Dragos reveals that it recently had to deal with an attempted ransomware attack. The damage was limited, even though data was stolen. The security company hopes to destigmatize cyberatt... Read more
12 months ago
Security researchers at U.S.-based Kroll Inc. have discovered a new type of ransomware. The unique feature of the so-called Cactus ransomware: it can bypass endpoint security by encrypting itself, Bleeping Computer reports. Discovered in March, Cactus is in many ways an ordinary variant of ranso... Read more
12 months ago
The US hardware giant gave us an update on the extent of the damage done in the recent cyberattack. Last Friday Western Digital (WDC) issued an official "update" on the results of the cyberattack the company had suffered in March. Calling the attack a "network security incident", the San Jose... Read more
12 months ago
LockBit has been gaining notoriety with the likes of the British Royal Mail and Deutsche Bank. The ransomware is persistent and remarkably self-sufficient. How does this popular tool of cybercriminals operate? Enterprises are going digital at an ever-increasing rate, accelerating the appeal of c... Read more
1 year ago
NCR, a prominent retail point-of-sale provider and provider of automated teller machine technology, has announced that it was hit by a ransomware attack on April 17th, disrupting some of its services. According to the company's statement, the "cyber ransomware incident" was detected in a single ... Read more
1 year ago
Ransomware is the fastest growing type of cybercrime. Analysts predict ransomware will attack a business every 2 seconds by the end of 2031. And every time a cybercriminal succeeds, the organization attacked is damaged — financially and often reputationally. More than 180 zettabytes of global ... Read more
1 year ago
