The U.K.-based insurance firm One Call says it has successfully restored its systems in a new environment that is separate from the one that was impacted by a ransomware attack May 13, adding that a ransomware note which purported to be from DarkSide could not be verified as authentic.
A year ago, Chris Pierson and BlackCloak studied executives at top global pharma companies to learn the extent of password-based vulnerabilities. The findings weren't reassuring. Pierson revisited the study this year with a select few entities to see if the needle has moved in a more secure direction.
The increasing number of cyberthreats, especially ransomware attacks, is leading some cyber insurers to raise premiums and limit some coverage in hard-hit sectors, such as healthcare and education, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.
Insurance company CNA's apparent decision to pay attackers a $40 million ransom and Colonial Pipeline Co.'s payment of a $4.4 million ransom are stirring debate over whether such payments should be banned under federal law.
The FBI is warning healthcare organizations and first-responder networks about Conti ransomware attacks, advising them to take measures to help prevent becoming a victim.
Scammers are increasingly using Windows Push Notifications to impersonate legitimate alerts as a first step toward installing malicious Windows applications to harvest user and system information, according to a global report by McAfee.
Microsoft is warning about a spam campaign that uses an updated variant of Java-based StrRAT malware that steals confidential data while disguising itself as a ransomware infection even though it does not actually encrypt data.
Ransomware attacks are stuck on repeat: Criminal syndicates have found an extremely profitable business model, and they're milking it for all it's worth. So give the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, credit for having in place robust disaster recovery capabilities and vowing to remediate, rather than pay criminals.
An unidentified nation-state hacking group targeted several Russian federal agencies as part of a cyberespionage campaign that compromised the country’s federal networks to steal sensitive data, according to a report from Russian security firm Rostelecom-Solar.
After revealing Colonial Pipeline Co. paid attackers $4.4 million after a ransomware attack, CEO Joseph Blount has been scheduled to testify at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing June 9.
5G technology reminds us that, globally, our sensitive data is open to attack. Janine Darling, founder and CEO of STASH Secure Data, is committed to resolving that vulnerability challenge.
"They’re playing games," is how one security expert describes Conti ransomware-wielding attackers' "gift" of a decryptor to Ireland's crypto-locked health service, while still demanding a ransom to not leak stolen health data. The same could be said of the DarkSide gang's promised retirement.
Alaska's Department of Health and Social Services is the latest in a series of public health departments hit by cyberattacks in recent weeks. Why are these government agencies experiencing so many breaches lately?
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