Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) As the world is beset by Log4Shell , arguably the most severe vulnerability ever, one of the biggest payroll processors will be reporting a ransomware attack that has taken its systems offline for at least the next several weeks. The company said on Sunday that services using the Kronos Private Cloud […]
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Enlarge (credit: Rob Engelaar | Getty Images) Ransomware hackers broke into a Planned Parenthood network and accessed medical records or other sensitive data for more than 400,000 patients of the reproductive health care group. The disclosure came in a sample letter posted to the California attorney general’s website and a release published by the organization. […]
Enlarge / Illustration set of flags made from binary code targets. (credit: Getty Images) Organizations responsible for critical infrastructure in the US are in the crosshairs of Iranian government hackers, who are exploiting known vulnerabilities in enterprise products from Microsoft and Fortinet, government officials from the US, UK, and Australia warned on Wednesday. A joint […]
Enlarge / Russian national Yevgyeniy Polyanin remains at large. (credit: FBI) US authorities have brought criminal charges against a Ukrainian and a Russian national for their roles in high-profile ransomware attacks as part of a sprawling global crackdown on digital extortion groups. The US justice department on Monday said it had charged Ukrainian Yaroslav Vasinskyi, […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Four days ago, the REvil ransomware gang’s leak site, known as the “Happy Blog, ” went offline. Cybersecurity experts wondered aloud what might have caused the infamous group to go dark once more. One theory was that it was an inside job pulled by the particular group’s disaffected former leader. Another […]
Enlarge / KAZAN, RUSSIA – JULY 9, 2020: Group-IB CEO and founder Ilya Sachkov speaks during a panel discussion with representatives of the IT industry at Innopolis’ Popov Technopark. (credit: Dmitry Astakhov | Getty Images) The founder of one of Russia’s largest cybersecurity companies has been arrested on suspicion of state treason and will be […]
Enlarge / The seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seen at the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington, D.C. (credit: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) For three weeks during the REvil ransomeware attack this summer, the FBI secretly withheld the key that would have decrypted data and computers on up to 1,500 networks, including those […]
Enlarge (credit: Raphael Rychetsky) Iowa-based provider of agriculture services NEW Cooperative Inc. has been hit by a ransomware attack, forcing it to take its systems offline. The BlackMatter group that is behind the attack has put forth a $5.9 million ransom demand. The farming cooperative is seen stating the attack could significantly impact the public supply […]
Enlarge / Gah, don’t you miss unstressed travel? (credit: Klaus Vedfelt / Getty Images) On the Friday heading into Memorial Day weekend this year, it was meat processing giant JBS . On the Fri before the Fourth of July, it was IT management software company Kaseya and, by extension, over a thousand businesses of varying […]