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New Turmoil in Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack as Feuding Cybercriminals Threaten Data Leak

SecureWorld News

The unprecedented cyberattack on healthcare giant Change Healthcare has taken a chaotic turn, with allegations that the prolific BlackCat ransomware gang conducted an "exit scam"—shutting down operations after receiving a $22 million ransom payment from the company without paying their own affiliate hacker.

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AON ACQUIRES CYTELLIGENCE, A LEADING INTERNATIONAL CYBER SECURITY FIRM WITH DEEP EXPERTISE IN CYBER INCIDENT RESPONSE AND DIGITAL FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS

Cytelligence

The 2019 Cybersecurity Almanac published by Cisco and Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that cyber events will cost $6 trillion annually by 2021, as companies are digitizing most of their processes and are often operating remotely. “As said J Hogg, CEO of Aon Cyber Solutions. said Daniel Tobok, CEO of Cytelligence.

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Office 365 Backup Solutions: Security, Functionality & UI/UX

Spinone

Recent ransomware attacks , however, showed several inherent weaknesses in the security system of Microsoft services. As a result, individual users and companies irreversibly lost their critical data. Furthermore, most cybersecurity experts including government agencies would consider relying solely on Office 365 a bad practice.

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