Healthcare providers hit by frozen payments in ransomware outage
By Raphael Satter, Christopher Bing and Patrick Wingrove WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Healthcare providers across the United States are struggling to get paid following the week-long ransomware outage at a key…
Ransomware group ‘Black Basta’ has raked in more than $100 million
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A cyber extortion gang suspected of being an offshoot of the notorious Russian Conti group of hackers has raked in more than $100 million…
Ransomware groups: here are the most dangerous and how they operate
Ransomware groups are becoming an increasingly lucrative industry for criminals who exploit companies’ vulnerabilities and take their data hostage for ransom. According to data from Check Point Research, economic damages for ransomware…
Ransomware’s infiltration of cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrencies: Cyber attacks, once mere theoretical possibilities, have now become a grave threat to modern society. While ransomware attacks have become commonplace, some recent high-profile incidents have thrust them into…
Year 2023 and we still don’t know how to recognize a ransomware
At the centre of recent headlines, ransomware is certainly one of the most talked about cyber threats in Europe as well as around the world. Suffice it to say that,…
LockBit ransomware group threatens to publish stolen Royal Mail data
By Aby Jose Koilparambil in Bengaluru (Reuters) – UK’s Royal Mail, which has been grappling with a cyberattack for about a month now, was added to ransomware group LockBit’s dark…
Ransomware attack on data firm ION could take days to fix
By James Pearson and Danilo Masoni LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) – A ransomware attack that hit ION Trading UK could take days to fix, leaving scores of brokers unable to process derivatives…
U.S. says it ‘hacked the hackers’ to bring down ransomware gang, helping 300 victims
By Sarah N. Lynch and Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI on Thursday revealed it had secretly hacked and disrupted a prolific ransomware gang called Hive, a maneuver that…
Zero Trust Security: How it can save your business from ransomware attacks
You’ve probably heard the term “zero trust” security before, especially regarding new user authentication methods. But what does that phrase mean? Zero trust security is an access control practice that…
A possible ransomware threat in Microsoft’s OneDrive and SharePoint. Here is what you need to know.
A few months ago, it was reported a “potentially dangerous piece of functionality” on Microsoft that allows an attacker to attack cloud infrastructure and ransom files stored in SharePoint and…