Security Boulevard

JULY 22, 2022

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2023

The ransomware attack that took place on British Daily Newspaper ‘The Guardian’ seems to have intensified deeply as the staff of the media group has been advised to work from home and have been handed over separate email ids for official communication. And the incident was discovered by the IT staff on the 20th of the same month.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 13, 2022

A cyber attack reportedly hit Albuquerque Public Schools, disrupting its digital systems to the core and forcing the authorities to shut the school operations consecutively for the second day on Friday, i.e. January 14th,2022. In the past few weeks, several companies and government entities were hit by DarkSide Ransomware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 29, 2022

Second is the news related to Baton Rouge General Health System (GHS), a healthcare service provider that disclosed yesterday that it was hit by a cyber attack in June this year leaking patient details to hackers. Third is the news related to Napa Valley College, which released a press statement admitting a ransomware attack.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the ransomware group, which is also referred to as ALPHV, had compromised more than 60 entities in early 2022. The group is linked to the Colonial Pipeline hack that caused gas prices to spike in 2021 and the hack of MGM Resorts earlier this year.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2024

In April, a cyber attack hit the Hospital Simone Veil in Cannes (CHC-SV), impacting medical procedures and forcing personnel to return to pen and paper. Non-urgent surgical procedures and consultations scheduled at the time of the attack were postponed. ” In the past, other French hospitals were victims of cyber attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Looking ahead to what Cybereason and our customers need to be aware of for 2022, it’s important to keep those things in mind, but let us consider the broader threat landscape—and what we are seeing in terms of emerging attacks and current threat research—to identify key risks that defenders need to prepare for. Predictions”.

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GlobalSign

JULY 22, 2022

Albanian government services suffer a ‘massive’ cyber attack, LinkedIn remains the most impersonated brand and favorite of phishing attacks, How Conti ransomware hacked and encrypted the Costa Rican government

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Joe Biden and his administration seems be on a forward thinking gear for quantum technology linked cyber attacks leading to data breaches. On December 21st,2022, the Senate passed a bipartisan bill to prevent data breaches emerging from quantum computing. isn’t it? .

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Hive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack against Tata Power that was disclosed by the company less than two weeks ago. The incident is said to have occurred on October 3, 2022. This allegedly comprises

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Stats for 2022 in the link. Its policy forbids to encrypt systems of organizations where damage could lead to the death of individuals. The gang explained that one of its partners attacked SickKids violating its rules, for this reason, it blocked the affiliate. Other ransomware attacks recently hit US hospitals.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These attacks also tend to be more successful in access and payout in the event of ransom demands, with 74% of attacks ending successfully for hackers. Here are a few prime examples of cyber-attacks in the education sector. 56% of lower education respondents were hit by ransomware in 2022. 64% of higher education.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

However, onboard Wi-Fi networks, if not adequately secured, can provide a gateway for cyber attackers. So watch out for weak encryption protocols, insufficient network segregation, or insecure user authentication mechanisms. That doesn’t mean there aren’t cyberthreats out there.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Like other ransomware gangs, Lorenz operators also implement double-extortion model by stealing data before encrypting it and threatening them if the victim doesn’t pay the ransom. Its policy forbids encrypting systems of organizations where damage could lead to the death of individuals.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2023

French electronics manufacturer Lacroix Group shut down three plants after a cyber attack, experts believe it was the victim of a ransomware attack. The French electronics manufacturer Lacroix Group shut down three facilities in France, Germany, and Tunisia in response to a cyber attack. We are in the final!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Thousands of financial transactions related to demat accounts were halted on Friday November 18th,2022 as the servers at the Central Depository Services (India) Limited went through a cyber attack of the malware genre. But CDSL had a recovery plan on hand and so immediately triggered it into action, to curtail risks.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2022

And if an enterprise is under an active ransomware attack, or a series of attacks, that’s a pretty good indication several other gangs of hacking specialists came through earlier and paved the way. In short, overlapping cyber attacks have become the norm. Thus, some of the victim company’s assets got triple encrypted.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2022

trillion, said it experiences close to 100,000 cyber attacks a year. The level of attacks have doubled in the past two to three years, the fund told the FT. The Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Act 2022 updates existing Irish law, on foot of recent EU case law. Data protection and privacy news.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2022

On February 24, 2022, Avast Threat Research published a tweet announcing the discovery of new Golang ransomware, which they called HermeticRansom. The malware is created in Golang and uses no anti-analysis components as string encryption, function names stripping, etc. Files are encrypted using the AES algorithm with the generated key.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 10, 2022

Interestingly, the note mentioned that the educational institute survived world wars, COVID-19 shutdowns and Spanish flu, but could not sustain itself from a ransomware attack that swallowed it wholly. Further investigations assured that no student data was compromised in the cyber incident.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It was also found in the research that the said group of cyber criminals avoids deployment of ransomware sometimes and carried out extortion with stolen data. Another company serving the field of cybersecurity named SEKOIA also observed a similar concept behind the operations of Vice Society and released an update on this note in July 2022.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

Brands, happens to be the second known business firm in the UK that has been hit by a cyber attack. In December 2022, Vice Society targeted school districts and Universities operating in United Kingdom. So, only time can give an apt answer on whether any information steal took place in the attack on Yum Brands Inc.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Its policy forbids to encrypt systems of organizations where damage could lead to the death of individuals. The gang explained that one of its partners attacked SickKids violating its rules, for this reason it block the affiliate. In August, the gang attacked the Center Hospitalier Sud Francilien (CHSF), a hospital southeast of Paris.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2024

Unlike other ransomware, Petya does not encrypt files on the infected systems but targets the hard drive’s master file table (MFT) and renders the master boot record (MBR) inoperable. Merck had not taken out specific insurance to cover cyber attacks, it only had insurance coverage against general risks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The final decision to sue PFEW will be taken in the second week of January 2022 and proceedings will be done accordingly, thereafter. Interestingly, the threat actors not only stole data and then encrypted the database.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 9, 2023

A new ransomware gang is on the prowl in the wild and has claimed its first major victim by launching a cyber attack and demanding $4m as ransom. MSI’s statement suggests that the hackers gained fraudulent access to about 1.5TB of information, including source code, BIOS tools, and some R&D details.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2021

How CIOs Can Protect Data Against Ransomware Attacks in 2022. Today, the biggest mistake most security practitioners make is treating ransomware attacks as any other cyber attack. The reality is this: Cyberattacks are increasing and the impact of every attack is growing. Wed, 10/27/2021 - 08:34. Hims Pawar.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Australia’s telecom networks (Optus) along with an insurance brand(Medibank) were hit by a ransomware attack recently and now an educational institute is ready to join the list. Royal is a newly developed file encrypting malware and was supposed to attack public and private entities in the United States of America.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

On October 14, Tata Power, India’s largest power generation company, announced that was hit by a cyber attack. The Tata Power Company Limited had a cyber attack on its IT infrastructure impacting some of its IT systems. The gang claims to have breached the corporate network on October 3rd, 2022.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2022

Healthcare providers are opting to pay a ransom in the event of ransomware attacks, instead of recovering it from data backups. The reason is as it is easy and guarantees 100% encrypted data return- Of course, as per their perspective!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 19, 2023

AhnLab, a South Korean cybersecurity firm, has issued an alert about a ransomware attack on Microsoft SQL Servers that are being bombarded with Trigona Ransomware payloads meant to encrypt files after stealing data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 10, 2022

In May this year, noted networking technology provider Cisco was targeted by a ransomware group that demanded millions to free up data from encryption.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2022

What’s surprising about this attack is that it was launched by Conti Ransomware group, which announced a few days ago that it is shutting down its systems. Third is the news related to noted clothing brand Hannes that experienced a ransomware attack on May 24th, 2022.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 28, 2023

Cybersecurity firm Cyble has confirmed the news and added that the malware was written in Russian language and suggests that it was developed to take down systems of Moscow that waged war against Ukraine since February 24th,2022.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Tue, 10/04/2022 - 05:20. How do cyber attacks impact them, and how are they protected? The 2022 Thales Consumer Digital Trust Index data , based on an Opinium survey conducted in 11 countries with more than 21K participants, attempts to answer these questions. How do people perceive cybersecurity? Data Security.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 27, 2022

Coming to the second news that was trending on Google and related to Ransomware is a report released by MalwareHunter Team that describes Onyx Ransomware gang as criminals who destroy large files instead of encrypting them until a ransom is paid. The only positive news in this report is the cost of remediation coming down to $1.85

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