Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

The Finish National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC-FI) warns of increased Akira ransomware attacks targeting NAS and tape backup devices of organizations in the country. The Finish National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC-FI) reported an increase in Akira ransomware attacks, targeting organizations in the country. concludes the alert.

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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

MARCH 1, 2023

Satellite TV giant Dish Network has confirmed that the recent outage was caused by a ransomware attack, it also disclosed a data breach. Satellite TV giant Dish Network finally admitted that the recent outage was caused by a ransomware attack.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The group claims to theft of more than 400GB of data, including internal files, patient medical images, and also employee email communications. The Lorenz ransomware gang has been active since April 2021 and hit multiple organizations worldwide demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom to the victims.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2024

The company has yet to disclose a data breach e never mentioned in its update that it was the victim of a ransomware attack. Such drastic containment measures are typically associated with malware infections, while the unavailability of affected systems often suggests a ransomware infection.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The LockBit ransomware group published data allegedly stolen from the aerospace giant Boeing in a recent attack. At the end of October, the Lockbit ransomware group added Boeing to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. Most recent documents in the leaked data are dated back to October 22.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shared guidance for small businesses on how to increase resilience to ransomware attacks. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published guidance for small businesses on how to protect their networks from ransomware attacks. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

Experts at threat intelligence firm Cyble came across a post published by Maze ransomware operators claiming to have breached the steel sheet giant Hoa Sen Group. Maze ransomware operators claim to be in possession of the company’s sensitive data and are threatening to release it. Hoa Sen Group is the no.1

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

Cyble researchers reported that Nefilim ransomware operators allegedly targeted the Dussmann group, the German largest private multi-service provider. Researchers from threat intelligence firm Cyble reported that Nefilim ransomware operators allegedly targeted the Dussmann group, the German largest private multi-service provider.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2021

Global consulting giant Accenture has allegedly been hit by a ransomware attack carried out by LockBit 2.0 ransomware operators. IT and consulting giant Accenture was hit by a ransomware attack carried out by LockBit 2.0 It is not clear how the threat actors breached the company and when the security breach took place.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2021

The US FBI announced that REvil ransomware gang (also known as Sodinokibi) is behind the attack that hit JBS Foods. The company’s backup servers were not affected, and it is actively working with an Incident Response firm to restore its systems as soon as possible.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2023

Margaret’s Health is the first hospital to cite a cyberattack as a reason for its closure A database containing data of +8.9 Margaret’s Health is the first hospital to cite a cyberattack as a reason for its closure A database containing data of +8.9

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

A ransomware attack hit Papua New Guinea ‘s finance ministry and disrupted government payments and operations. Government officials confirmed that Papua New Guinea’s finance ministry was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted government payments and operations. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2023

PlugX malware delivered by exploiting flaws in Chinese programs Prometei botnet evolves and infected +10,000 systems since November 2022 CISA adds VMware’s Cloud Foundation bug to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog Law enforcement seized the website selling the NetWire RAT and arrested a Croatian man Latest version of Xenomorph Android malware (..)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a script to recover VMware ESXi servers infected with ESXiArgs ransomware. Good news for the victims of the recent wave of ESXiArgs ransomware attacks, the U.S. Experts noticed that only a few thousand systems were encrypted worldwide. Then the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

Maze ransomware operators claims to have breached the South Korean multinational electronics company LG Electronics. Researchers at Cyble discovered a data leak of LG Electronics published by Maze ransomware operators. Previous victims of the ransomware gang include IT services firms Cognizant and Conduent.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2020

The City of Torrance of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, California, is the last victim of the DoppelPaymer Ransomware, hackers also stole its data. Unfortunately, the attacker have also stole unencrypted data from the infected systems before decripting them. The group posted files from the breach as proof.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2021

Another ransomware gang, the Vice Society ransomware operators, is using Windows print spooler PrintNightmare exploits in its attacks. The Vice Society ransomware operators are actively exploiting Windows print spooler PrintNightmare vulnerability in their attacks against Windows servers. The flaw received a CVSS score of 7.3,

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. He declined to comment on the particulars of the extortion incident.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2023

The BlackCat Ransomware group claims to have hacked SOLAR INDUSTRIES INDIA and to have stolen 2TB of “secret military data.” ” The BlackCat Ransomware gang added SOLAR INDUSTRIES INDIA to the list of victims published on its Tor leak site. ” reads the message published on the leak site.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

Documents and personal details of residents of the small Swiss town Rolle, on the shores of Lake Geneva, were stolen in a ransomware attack. The Swiss town Rolle disclosed the data breach after a ransomware attack, personal details of all its 6,200 inhabitants were stolen by threat actors. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

So, companies small and medium can take the help of the awareness program to help their companies defend their computer networks against the growing cyber threats such as ransomware, phishing and Ddos attacks. Cannot secure endpoints. Neglect the need to have a backup and disaster recovery solution in place.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

Copycat Criminals mimicking Lockbit gang in northern Europe Sandworm APT targets Ukraine with new SwiftSlicer wiper ISC fixed high-severity flaws in DNS software suite BIND Patch management is crucial to protect Exchange servers, Microsoft warns Hacker accused of having stolen personal data of all Austrians and more CVE-2023-23560 flaw exposes 100 (..)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

million ransom to decrypt its files after being encrypted by the infamous Sodinokibi ransomware. “As part of this attack, the operators behind the Sodinokibi ransomware told BleepingComputer that they had encrypted the company’s entire network, deleted backup files, and copied more than 5GB of personal data.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2020

Sodinokibi (REvil) ransomware operators announced on Friday to have hacked Brown-Forman, one of the largest U.S. Sodinokibi (REvil) ransomware operators announced last week to have breached the network of the Brown-Forman, one of the largest U.S. firm in the spirits and wine business. firm in the spirits and wine business.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2023

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2022

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 18, 2020

The Carnival Corporation, which has canceled cruises for months now as a result of COVID-19, says one of its cruise brands was hit with a ransomware cyberattack. What do we know about the Carnival Cruises ransomware attack? Securities and Exchange Commission, notifying the SEC of the data breach.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Even with high-level security measures, no one is safe from such threats. That is why most companies hire professional information security services to mitigate the risks arising from data breaches. Human errors often lead to data breaches, malware, and virus attacks that might compromise the company’s systems.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

A ransomware attack on an Iowa-based eye clinic earlier this year led to the access and possible theft of data belonging to 500,000 patients.(Photo A ransomware attack on Iowa-based Wolfe Eye Clinic earlier this year led to the access and possible theft of data belonging to 500,000 patients.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2023

WordPress sites using the Ultimate Member plugin are under attack LockBit gang demands a $70 million ransom to the semiconductor manufacturing giant TSMC Avast released a free decryptor for the Windows version of the Akira ransomware Iran-linked Charming Kitten APT enhanced its POWERSTAR Backdoor miniOrange’s WordPress Social Login and Register plugin (..)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The Cybernews research team believes that the platform suffered a ransomware attack and at least partially paid the ransom – but was duped. The attackers complained that the payment wasn’t generous enough and published the stolen data. The company was likely breached sometime in late August or early September.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2021

White House spokeswoman speculates threat actors behind the JBS ransomware attack have a Russian origin. The company’s backup servers were not affected, and it is actively working with an Incident Response firm to restore its systems as soon as possible.” reads the press release published by the company. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Medical records of 42 million Americans are being sold on the dark web since 2016, this information comes from cyberattacks on healthcare providers. Researchers from Jama Network analyzed trends in ransomware attacks on US hospitals, clinics, and health care delivery organizations between 2016 and 2021. million in 2016 to close to 16.5

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Everest ransomware operators claimed to have hacked South Africa state-owned company ESKOM Hld SOC Ltd. In March 2022, the Everest ransomware operators published a notice announcing the sale of “South Africa Electricity company’s root access” for $125,000. Multiple settings and developments.

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