Iranian Hacker Pleads Guilty in $19 Million Robbinhood Ransomware Attack on Baltimore
An Iranian national has pleaded guilty in the U.S. over his involvement in an international ransomware and extortion scheme involving the Robbinhood ransomware
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An Iranian national has pleaded guilty in the U.S. over his involvement in an international ransomware and extortion scheme involving the Robbinhood ransomware
Also, BianLian Ransomware Hackers Aren't Really Mailing YouThis week, the U.S. sanctioned the Nemesis admin, Poco RAT spotted in Latin America, Apple challenged a British order to weaken encryption and the FBI warned against scam letters purportedly from BianLian. Also, a Nigerian tax scammer extradited to the U.S., a new botnet and a Webex vulnerability.
Threat actors were able to breach Blackbaud's systems and compromise sensitive data, largely because of the company's poor cybersecurity practices and lack of encrypted data, the AG said.
Mortgage lender LoanDepot has revealed a ransomware breach resulting in stolen and encrypted data
The Department of Justice announced today that the FBI successfully breached the ALPHV ransomware operation's servers to monitor their activities and obtain decryption keys. [...]
The Incident Involves Ransomware Encryption and Follows Familiar, Concerning TrendsA large, Seattle-based surgical group is notifying nearly 437,400 individuals that their information was potentially compromised in a ransomware and data theft incident earlier this year. The breach is part of a larger, disturbing trend in the healthcare sector in 2023.
Ransomware encryption speed is crucial because it reduces the time available for an organization to react to a security breach. Included are six crucial steps for protecting your organization from the ever-increasing speed of ransomware attacks. [...]
An automotive supplier had its systems breached and files encrypted by three different ransomware gangs over a two-week span in May, two of the attacks happening within just two hours. [...]
Details have emerged on how the Conti ransomware gang breached the Costa Rican government, showing the attack's precision and the speed of moving from initial access to the final stage of encrypting devices. [...]