INC Ransomware Thrives by Mastering the Basics
And one of those basics is focusing on sectors where a ransomware disruption creates immediate pressure to pay up, like with healthcare.
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And one of those basics is focusing on sectors where a ransomware disruption creates immediate pressure to pay up, like with healthcare.
While enterprises breaches make more headlines, smaller incidents tend to be under-reported, if at all, allowing campaigns to last longer with less disruption.
A chief medical information officer describes what hospitals face when they inevitably suffer a ransomware attack—whether it leads to short- or long-term outages.
The "incident" led to outages affecting a variety of the tech company's operations, though the full scope of the breach is unknown.
Customers were the first to notice the disruption on the distributor's website when they couldn't place orders online.
The outage began shortly before the July 4 holiday weekend and caused disruptions for customer ordering and other services provided by the IT distributor.
Transportation facilities and networks slowly adapt to changes and threats, leaving them vulnerable to agile cyberattackers, as demonstrated by the $10 million ransomware attack.
Until C-level executives fully understand potential threats and implement effective mitigation strategies, healthcare organizations will remain vulnerable and at risk of disruption.
The prominent state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT), aka Jumpy Pisces, appears to be moving away from its primary cyber-espionage motives and toward wreaking widespread disruption and damage.
Attackers are more likely to target critical infrastructure industries and, when they do, they cause more disruption and ask higher ransoms, with the median payment topping $2.5 million.
The restaurant chain hasn't provided any information regarding what led to a widespread IT outage, and customers and employees are asking for answers.
Ransomware groups tore into manufacturing other parts of the OT sector in 2023, and a few attacks caused eight- and nine-figure damages. But worse is yet to come in 2024.
Ransomware group tries to claw back operations following FBI disruption, and lifts a previous ban on attacks against critical infrastructure in retaliation.
The library said that it expects many of its services to be restored in the forthcoming weeks.
MGM wins big bet that days of operations outages is better business than paying a ransom, following last month's data breach.
A February 2022 attack, knocked the giant tire maker's North American operations offline for several days.
Thousands of restaurants impacted by what Aloha PoS parent company NCR says was a ransomware attack on one of its data centers.
The war on critical infrastructure demands a better security strategy.
Organizations often defer patching because of business disruption fears — but that didn't work out very well for Rackspace's Hosted Exchange service.
The hosting services provider shared new details on the breach that took down its Hosted Exchange Email service.