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After Disrupting Ascension Health, Black Basta Forecast Reprisals From FBI, Moscow"We are pentesters, not murderers," ransomware group Black Basta claimed in its negotiations with victim Ascension Healthcare in May 2024, after its attack led to widespread disruptions and patient safety alerts. Leaked chat logs reveal the group feared resulting reprisals from the FBI and Moscow.

Also: U.S. Health Data Privacy Crackdowns, Reality vs. Hype of LLMs in SecurityIn this week's update, four editors with ISMG explore the crumbling state of ransomware group Black Basta and implications for other cybercrime gangs, the expanding impact of U.S. health data privacy laws, and whether large language models are truly what they seem.

United Kingdom water supplier Southern Water has disclosed that it incurred costs of £4.5 million ($5.7M) due to a cyberattack it suffered in February 2024. [...]

The UK's Southern Water has been forced to shell out millions due to a Black Basta cyberattack, and it has come to light that the total could include a ransom payment.

More than a year's worth of internal chat logs from a ransomware gang known as Black Basta have been published online in a leak that provides unprecedented visibility into their tactics and internal conflicts among its members

Leaked chats and spilled secrets as AI helps decode circa 200K private talks Southern Water neither confirms nor denies offering Black Basta a $750,000 ransom payment following its ransomware attack in 2024.…

Group Cross-Referenced Open-Source Victim Intelligence With Infostealer HaulsThe leak of 200,000 internal chat messages for the Black Basta operation provides an overview of how a modern ransomware group organizes itself to take down victims in the most efficient, profit-maximizing manner possible, using a variety of tactics that should be, in theory, easy to repel.