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University of Hawaii Cancer Center Paid RansomCancer patients who participated in University of Hawaii Cancer Center studies during the 1990s may soon receive a notification that ransomware hackers stole their data in an August 2025 incident. Experts said the hack spotlights concerning risks involving compromises of medical research data.
The State of Nevada has completed its recovery from a ransomware attack it suffered on August 24, 2025, which impacted 60 state agencies, disrupting critical services related to health and public safety. [...]
American Associated Pharmacies yet to officially confirm infection American Associated Pharmacies (AAP) is the latest US healthcare organization to have had its data stolen and encrypted by cyber-crooks, it is feared.…
Rust-Based Ransomware Employs Aggressive Anti-Detection TacticsOperators of a Russian-speaking ransomware group launched a new encryptor with enhanced measures for defeating cyber defenders including wiping logs, disrupting backup systems and stopping decryption without insiders knowledge. The same group disrupted London hospitals in a July attack.
Gang Hits Victims with 'Sophisticated' Exfiltration, Encryption Extortion AttacksHealth sector entities have yet another ransomware group to worry about, warn U.S. federal authorities. Trinity, a relatively new sophisticated threat actor, is hitting a variety of critical industries, including healthcare, said the Department of Health and Human Services in an advisory.
Threat actors linked to the RansomHub ransomware group encrypted and exfiltrated data from at least 210 victims since its inception in February 2024, the U.S. government said
The threat group is disrupting healthcare organizations. Victims can help themselves, though, even after compromise, by being careful in the decryption process.
OneBlood, a large not-for-profit blood center that serves hospitals and patients in the United States, is dealing with an IT systems outage caused by a ransomware attack. [...]
German hospital network Katholische Hospitalvereinigung Ostwestfalen (KHO) has confirmed that recent service disruptions were caused by a Lockbit ransomware attack where the threat actors gained access to IT systems and encrypted devices on the network. [...]
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) disclosed today that it infiltrated the world's second most prolific ransomware gang, a Russia-based criminal group known as ALPHV and BlackCat. The FBI said it seized the gang's darknet website, and released a decryption tool that hundreds of victim companies can use to recover systems. Meanwhile, BlackCat responded by briefly "unseizing" its darknet site with a message promising 90 percent commissions for affiliates who continue to work with the crime group, and open season on everything from hospitals to nuclear power plants.
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.
Sophos researchers said the increased success rates was partly due to threat actors speeding up their attack timelines
An emerging cybercriminal group linked with Conti has expanded its partial encryption strategy and demonstrates other evasive maneuvers, as it takes aim at healthcare and other sectors.
A threat brief published by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday paints a grim picture of how Ireland's health service, the HSE, was overwhelmed and had 80% of its systems encrypted during last year's Conti ransomware attack. [...]