Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2022

Chipmaker giant Nvidia confirmed a data breach after the recently disclosed security incident, proprietary information stolen. The chipmaker giant Nvidia was recentty victim of a ransomware attack that impacted some of its systems for two days. ” the LAPSU$ ransomware gang wrote on its Telegram change.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Elbit Systems of America, a subsidiary of defense giant Elbit Systems, disclosed a data breach after Black Basta ransomware gang claimed to have hacked it. In late June, the Black Basta ransomware gang claimed to have hacked Elbit Systems of America, the extortion group added the name of the company to its Tor leak site.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2021

The FBI confirmed this week that a relatively new ransomware group known as DarkSide is responsible for an attack that caused Colonial Pipeline to shut down 5,550 miles of pipe , stranding countless barrels of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel on the Gulf Coast. victim that earns $15 billion in annual revenue. Image: colpipe.com.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As if the scourge of ransomware wasn’t bad enough already: Several prominent purveyors of ransomware have signaled they plan to start publishing data stolen from victims who refuse to pay up. The message displayed at the top of the Maze Ransomware public shaming site. Follow the news!”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2021

Oil and gas giant Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) discloses a data breach resulting from the compromise of its Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) file sharing service. Energy giant Shell disclosed a data breach resulting from the compromise of an Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) used by the company. billion in 2020.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2021

The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. The security breach was first reported by BleepingComputer that also shared a copy of the data breach notification letter sent to the impacted customers.

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Veracode Security

MAY 14, 2021

Verizon recently published its 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). This year, Verizon analyzed 79,635 incidents, of which 29,207 met their quality standards and 5,258 were confirmed data breaches, from 88 countries around the world. Phishing, ransomware, and web app attacks … Oh my!

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

Western Digital is notifying its customers of a data breach that exposed their sensitive personal information, the incident took place in March. In March 2022, Western Digital was hit by a ransomware attack and in response to the incident, it shut down several of its services.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 30, 2024

The world-renowned auction house Christie's has become the latest major corporation to fall victim to a ransomware attack. The cybercrime gang RansomHub has claimed responsibility and is threatening to release "a massive trove of sensitive personal information" belonging wealthy clients of Christie's unless their ransom demand is met.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2024

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Alphv ransomware group added the Morrison Community Hospital to its dark web leak site. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group claims to have hacked the Morrison Community Hospital and added it to its dark web Tor leak site. The gang also published a sample as proof of the stolen data. Stats for 2022 in the link.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2024

The Cactus ransomware group claims to have hacked Coop, one of the largest retail and grocery providers in Sweden. The Cactus ransomware group claims to have hacked Coop and is threatening to disclose a huge amount of personal information, over 21 thousand directories. The Cactus ransomware relies on multiple legitimate tools (e.g.

Retail 118

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 9, 2024

Ransomware groups are liars, yes, but even when these dangerous cybercriminals would ransack organizations and destroy entire companies, a few select groups espoused a sort of “honor among thieves.” But, as can be expected from ransomware groups, these were nothing but lies. How to avoid ransomware Block common forms of entry.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Earlier this week, KrebsOnSecurity revealed that the darknet website for the Snatch ransomware group was leaking data about its users and the crime gang’s internal operations. It continues: “Prior to deploying the ransomware, Snatch threat actors were observed spending up to three months on a victim’s system.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland’s public health system. The unusually candid post-mortem found that nearly two months elapsed between the initial intrusion and the launching of the ransomware.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by the end of 2021. SecureWorld now takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 2, 2020

You couldn’t go a week last year without seeing a ransomware headline in the news. And it wasn’t because the media paid more attention to this relative newcomer in the area of cybercrime. Ransomware attacks on businesses skyrocketed 365 percent in 2019, and all signs point to more of the same in 2020.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Israeli man sentenced to 80 months in prison for providing hacker-for-hire services Russian APT Gamaredon uses USB worm LitterDrifter against Ukraine The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services CISA adds Sophos Web Appliance bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Hunters International ransomware gang claims to have hacked the Fred Hutch Cancer Center New NKAbuse malware abuses NKN decentralized P2P network protocol Snatch ransomware gang claims the hack of the food giant Kraft Heinz Multiple flaws in pfSense firewall can lead to arbitrary code execution BianLian, White Rabbit, and Mario Ransomware Gangs Spotted (..)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

British multinational oil and gas company Shell has confirmed that it has suffered a ransomware attack conducted by the Clop group. The Clop ransomware gang claims to have hacked hundreds of companies by exploiting the above issue. Recently another data breach made the headlines, the hack of the payroll services provider Zellis.

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Ransomware Data breaches Penetration Testing Government 85

Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2024

The LockBit ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the cyber attack on the Capital Health hospital network. The LockBit ransomware operation has claimed responsibility for the cyberattack that hit the Capital Health hospital network in November 2023. Over 7 terabytes of medical confidentiality data valued at $250,000.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A Lockbit ransomware attack against the German hospital network Katholische Hospitalvereinigung Ostwestfalen (KHO) caused service disruptions at three hospitals. The ransomware gang hit the KHO on Christmas Eve and gained access to specifically encrypted data, the organization revealed in a statement published on its website.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Ukrainian national faces up to 20 years in prison for his role in Zeus, IcedID malware schemes CISA: Cisco ASA/FTD bug CVE-2020-3259 exploited in ransomware attacks CISA adds Microsoft Exchange and Cisco ASA and FTD bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog US gov offers a reward of up to $10M for info on ALPHV/Blackcat gang leaders U.S.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2023

Satellite TV giant Dish Network disclosed a data breach after the February ransomware attack and started notifying impacted individuals. In early February, the company admitted that the outage was caused by a ransomware attack. In early February, the company admitted that the outage was caused by a ransomware attack.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

Cybersecurity firm Qualys seems to have suffered a data breach, threat actors allegedly exploited zero-day flaw in their Accellion FTA server. The attackers exfiltrate sensitive data from the target systems and then published it on the CLOP ransomware gang’s leak site. reported FireEye. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2021

Clop ransomware gang leaked online data stolen from Stanford Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, and the University of California. Clop ransomware operators have leaked the personal and financial information stolen from Stanford Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB), and the University of California.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2022

Semikron, a German-based independent manufacturer of power semiconductor components, suffered a ransomware cyberattck. As part of this attack, the perpetrators have claimed to have exfiltrated data from our system. Whether this is the case and which data are concerned is currently subject to investigation.”

Manufacturing 91

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

The City of Dallas, Texas, was hit by a ransomware attack that forced it to shut down some of its IT systems. The IT systems at the City of Dallas, Texas, have been targeted by a ransomware attack. However, CBS News Texas obtained an image the ransomware note dropped by the malware on the infected systems. Source J.D.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 1, 2022

New version includes 11 important security patches Lightning Framework, modular Linux malware Malware spent months hoovering up credit card details from 300 US restaurants Lock down your Neopets account: Data breach being investigated Demo: Your data has been encrypted! And it did.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2023

In 2022, ransomware attacks targeted 105 state or municipal governments or agencies in the US, reads a report published by Emsisoft. ” The ransomware attack against local governments resulted in data theft in at least 27 of the 105 incidents (26 percent). “Early ransomware attacks were simple and mostly automated.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Johnson Controls International suffered a ransomware attack that impacted the operations of the company and its subsidiaries. Johnson Controls International announced it has suffered a ransomware attack that impacted many systems of the company, Bleeping Computer reported. ” reported Bleeping Computer. .”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Alarming Reality of Fraud Fraud and cybercrime are pressing challenges for all sectors, including financial services. Fraud and cybercrime account for over 40% of all estimated crimes in England and Wales and affects more people more often than any other crime. billion annually.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2023

Antivirus firm Avast released a free decryptor for the BianLian ransomware family that allows victims to recover locked files. Security firm Avast has released a free decryptor for the BianLian ransomware to allow victims of the malware to recover locked files. The typical size of the BianLian ransomware executable is around 2 MB.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Hive ransomware gang, which claimed the responsibility for the Tata Power data breach, started leaking data. The company confirmed that the security breach impacted “some of its IT systems.”. “All Now the ransomware gang Hive started leaking the alleged stolen files on its Tor leak site. key files.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

Researchers conducted a new analysis of the Diavol ransomware and found new evidence of the link with the gang behind the TrickBot botnet. In July, researchers from Fortinet reported that a new ransomware family, tracked as Diavol, might have been developed by Wizard Spider , the cybercrime gang behind the TrickBot botnet.

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