U.S. authorities are warning healthcare sector entities of incidents involving Everest, a Russian-speaking ransomware group and initial access broker, which claims to have stolen sensitive patient information in recent attacks, including on two medical care providers in New York and Nevada.
Oil services giant Halliburton is reportedly dealing with a disruption tied to a Wednesday hack attack, after which the Houston-based firm advised employees to not connect to any internal IT resources - a sign that the incident could be a ransomware attack.
A ransomware attack against Berlin, Maryland-based Atlantic General Hospital that affected the personal information of 137,000 individuals in 2023 has led to a $2.25 million preliminary settlement of a consolidated proposed federal class action lawsuit.
RedSense’s Yelisey Bohuslavskiy and Marley Smith believe ransomware is declining but caution that it still poses a significant threat. While attackers recycle old methods, they're taking desperate measures to target vulnerable groups such as cancer centers and to stoke fears in the marketplace.
Ransomware groups' collective profits are on track to achieve another record-breaking year, even though fewer victims overall appear to be paying a ransom, experts warn. One expert says the success comes down to a handful of high-profile attacks.
Accenture Global Cyber Resilience Lead Robert Boyce outlines why organizations must assess the stability of ransomware groups before deciding how to respond to extortion threats. He outlines how trustworthiness of ransomware gangs can affect the likelihood of receiving decryption keys after payment.
McLaren Health Care expects IT disruptions caused by a ransomware attack earlier this month to last through the end of August. While most of McLaren's facilities are open, IT systems across its hospitals, cancer centers and clinics are still affected, including electronic medical record access.
As McLaren Health Care continues to restore its IT systems in the wake of a ransomware attack last week, some Michigan government officials are warning consumers about potential cybercrimes and other concerns stemming from that and similar cyber incidents involving healthcare groups in the state.
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New York-based biotechnology firm Enzo Biochem will pay $4.5 million in state fines and must implement a list of security improvements, thanks to a 2023 ransomware attack that affected 2.4 million patients nationwide. Investigators highlighted the company's failure to fix known security risks.
How many ransomware victims pay their attackers a ransom precisely to avoid having their names listed - or their stolen data dumped - on a ransomware group's data leak blog? We don't know, but leak site posts don't correlate well with security firms' telemetry data.
A pioneer of the ransomware-as-a-service model appeared in U.S. federal court Tuesday where he faces a slew of charges stemming from a nearly two-decade online career. Poland extradited Maksim Silnikau to the United States on Friday; authorities arrested him in a Spanish seaside town in 2023.
An Idaho-based medical center is notifying about 464,000 patients and employees that their sensitive information was potentially compromised in an attack detected in March. Ransomware group ThreeAM claims to have leaked on its dark web site 22-Gbytes of Kootenai Health's stolen data.
The FBI said it led the disruption of a ransomware group called Dispossessor, aka Radar, that amassed victims in dozens of countries. An international dismantling of the group's alleged infrastructure seized servers in the U.S., the U.K. and Germany, as well as multiple domain names.
An Arizona-based technical school is notifying nearly 209,000 current and former students, parents and faculty that their personal, health and financial information was potentially compromised in a LockBit attack earlier this year. The ransomware hack is one of many hits in the education sector.
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