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Figure is more than 10% higher than cross-sector average

A growing number of ransomware groups are adopting a new tactic that helps them encrypt their victims' systems faster while reducing the chances of being detected and stopped. [...]

Ransomware gangs have been busy this week, launching attacks against NAS devices, one of the largest hotel groups, IHG, and LAUSD, the second largest school district in the USA. [...]

A new group, Monti, appears to have used leaked Conti code, TTPs, and infrastructure approaches to launch its own ransomware campaign.

The Vice Society gang has claimed the ransomware attack that hit Los Angeles Unified (LAUSD), the second largest school district in the United States, over the weekend. [...]

A sweeping effort to prevent a raft of targeted cybercrime groups from posting ransomware victims' data publicly is hampering their operations, causing outages.

DEV-0270 leverages exploits for newly disclosed vulnerabilities to gain access to devices

The initial access broker (IAB) for ransomware gangs known as UAC-0098 has targeted Ukrainian organizations in five separate phishing campaigns spanning April to August.

Microsoft's threat intelligence division on Wednesday assessed that a subgroup of the Iranian threat actor tracked as Phosphorus is conducting ransomware attacks as a "form of moonlighting" for personal gain

After a high-profile 2017 breach and a Holiday Inn ransomware hit earlier this year, IHG confirms that its booking channels and applications have been disrupted in yet another cyberattack.

Why Zero Trust security needs secure infrastructure, systems, networks, users, and applications Webinar Statistics suggest that there was a ransomware attack on a company or organization every 11 seconds in 2021, but only 57 percent of the victims successfully retrieved their kidnapped data by using back up. And the 32 percent that paid a ransom only recovered 65 percent of their lost data.…

FBI warns that Vice Society threat group is ramping up attacks on the education sector The Vice Society threat group is ramping up ransomware attacks on US school districts just as students around the country return to the classroom, the FBI and other federal agencies are warning.…

Continued collaboration will help win the fight as cybersecurity remains a national priority. International and public-private cooperation is helping stem the damage from ransomware threats and cyberattacks.

NAS devices make it easy for anyone to add high-capacity file servers to their network. Guess why cybercrooks love NAS devices too...

Someone is flooding Cobalt Strike servers operated by former members of the Conti ransomware gang with anti-Russian messages to disrupt their activity. [...]

Google says some former Conti cybercrime gang members, now part of a threat group tracked as UAC-0098, are targeting Ukrainian organizations and European non-governmental organizations (NGOs). [...]

Google says some former Conti ransomware gang members, now part of a threat group tracked as UAC-0098, are targeting Ukrainian organizations and European non-governmental organizations (NGOs). [...]

Second-largest US school district compromised over the weekend

A relative newcomer to the ransomware scene, the BlackCat group quickly gained notoriety and may be associated with other APT groups like Conti and DarkSide.

Hours after Los Angeles Unified School District hit with ransomware attack, CISA issued an alert that threat actors are actively targeting the education sector.