As ransomware-related payments surged toward $600 million in the first half of 2021, the U.S. government knew it needed to do more to fight back against cyber criminals. For many…
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Why Do Ransomware Gangs Keep Coming Back From the Dead?
Ransomware gangs are major players in the cybersecurity space, especially in recent years. ZDNet reported that ransomware gangs increased their payments by over 311% from 2019 to 2020, with totals…
5 Essential Steps for Every Ransomware Response Plan
This post was written with contributions from Andrew Gorecki, Camille Singleton and Charles DeBeck. May and June bring warm weather, backyard barbecues and, in recent years, an uptick in ransomware…
Cyber Insurers Might Be Making the Ransomware Problem Worse
In mid-May, one of the largest insurance companies in the U.S. paid $40 million to ransomware attackers. Two people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that the malicious actors stole…
Radiohead releases ‘OK Computer’ sessions that hacker tried to ransom
The band shrugged off the threat and released the files on Bandcamp. They’re long and not very interesting, they said. This post appeared first on Naked Security Blog by Sophos…
Babysitting app suffers ‘temporary data breach’ of 93,000 users
Babysitting-booking app Sitter “temporarily” exposed the personal data of 93,000 account holders, according to a researcher who recently discovered the trove of data using the Shodan Internet of Things (IoT)…
Hackers hold 80,000 healthcare records to ransom
CarePartners said its forensic investigation identified 1500 affected records – the hackers say they took 80,000. This post appeared first on Naked Security Blog by Sophos Author: John E Dunn