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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ongoing Innovation and Sophistication Drive Unparalleled Profits Attackers wielding ransomware collectively earned over $1 billion last year - breaking previous records.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Learning From Difficult Recoveries and Advice in Government Alerts As ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector continue to surge, entities should heed the lessons emerging from these incidents as well as the advice provided in alerts from government agencies, security experts say.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The company declined to discuss the exact cause of the disruption, but their response so far is straight out of the playbook for responding to ransomware incidents. Plano, Texas-based Tyler Technologies [ NYSE:TYL ] has some 5,300 employees and brought in revenues of more than $1 billion in 2019.

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

Government Authorities Issue Advisories Following Hospital Attack Government authorities in Israel are warning healthcare sector entities in the country of potential cyberattacks after a ransomware attack this week on Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in the city of Hadera.

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MARCH 5, 2024

healthcare giant Change Healthcare has made a $22 million extortion payment to the infamous BlackCat ransomware group (a.k.a. BlackCat is known as a “ransomware-as-service” collective, meaning they rely on freelancers or affiliates to infect new networks with their ransomware. There are indications that U.S.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

Companies victimized by ransomware and firms that facilitate negotiations with ransomware extortionists could face steep fines from the U.S. federal government if the crooks who profit from the attack are already under economic sanctions, the Treasury Department warned today. Image: Shutterstock.

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MAY 14, 2021

The DarkSide ransomware affiliate program responsible for the six-day outage at Colonial Pipeline this week that led to fuel shortages and price spikes across the country is running for the hills. The DarkSide message includes passages apparently penned by a leader of the REvil ransomware-as-a-service platform.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Victims Still Learning Their Personal Data Was Illegally Accessed, Copied in 2021 A ransomware attack on the Irish healthcare system in 2021 has cost the government 80 million euros in damages and counting.

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

Researcher Published Proof-of-Concept Exploit Code 1 Day After Vendor Issued Patch Ransomware-wielding attackers are targeting unpatched versions of FTP software that is widely used by large enterprises, including government and educational organizations.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Big Game Hunting Is Out and 'Mid Game Hunting' Is In, Coveware Warns When a business, government agency or other organization hit by ransomware opted to pay a ransom to its attacker in Q3, the average payment was $140,000, reports ransomware incident response firm Coveware.

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MAY 18, 2022

Ransomware Group Continues to Demand Ransom Payment From Besieged Government Ransomware group Conti, which has been holding to ransom crypto-locked Costa Rican government systems since April, has claimed on its leak site Conti News that it has "insiders" in the country's government, and that they are working toward the compromise of "other systems." (..)

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JUNE 12, 2020

DoppelPaymer Hit Comes as Ransomware Attacks - and Data-Leaking Shakedowns - Surge The attack sounds ripped from an episode of TV show "24": Hackers have infiltrated a government network, and they're days away from unleashing ransomware.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

parliamentary committee investigating ransomware threats recommended a more aggressive stance against threat actors and said the government should consider making incident reporting mandatory and provide government support for public sector victims "to the point of full recovery."

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MARCH 1, 2021

Prolific Ransomware Can 'Spread Automatically' Inside Networks, CERT-FR Warns Prolific Ryuk ransomware has a new trick up its sleeve. "A

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JULY 14, 2021

Former Head of GCHQ Highlights Need for Getting Basics Right, Plus Government Action Ransomware-wielding criminals continue to find innovative new ways to extort victims, develop technically and sidestep skills shortages by delivering ransomware as a service, said Robert Hannigan, the former head of U.K.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Australian Federal Police, Department of Home Affairs Reportedly Among the Victims An April ransomware attack against one of Australia's largest law firms swept up the data of 65 Australian government agencies, the country's national cybersecurity coordinator said Monday.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Finnish IT Services Previews Days or Weeks of Disruption, Ties Attack to Akira An Akira ransomware attack that hit a data center run by Finnish IT software and services firm Tietoevry has led to widespread outages across Sweden.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Head of NSA, Cyber Command Says US Will Continue to Battle Ransomware for Years Some of the highest-ranking cybersecurity officials in the U.S. government discussed the pervasive threat of ransomware on Tuesday, likening it to a clear issue of national security with the ability to inflict measurable damage on major world powers.

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JANUARY 16, 2023

Pity the overworked ransomware gang - say, LockBit - that just "discovered" one of its affiliates hit Britain's postal service. But until Western governments find a way to truly disrupt the ransomware business model, operators remain free to keep spouting half-truths and lies at victims' expense.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Security Experts on Vulnerabilities, Prevention Steps for State Governments The ransomware attack on Tamil Nadu's Public Department puts the spotlight on the preparedness to identify and stave off attacks.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of whether businesses are stepping up their ransomware defenses in response to several warnings released by the U.S. governments highlighting the threat posed to infrastructure. Also featured are the Thingiverse data breach and airline fraud trends.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

New Criminal Penalties, Assistance to Victims in the Ransomware Action Plan Australia plans to require businesses with more than $10 million in revenue to report ransomware attacks to the government, part of a comprehensive strategy to fight the attacks that also includes new criminal penalties and assistance to victims.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland’s public health system. The unusually candid post-mortem found that nearly two months elapsed between the initial intrusion and the launching of the ransomware.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

government has been tracking an increase in the pace of attacks tied to Conti ransomware. The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of how the U.S. Also featured are what "protection" means today and building a new cybersecurity operating model.

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JUNE 1, 2022

500,000 Euros Budgeted to Restore Affected Systems, Boost Cybersecurity In the aftermath of the BlackCat ransomware attack on May 24, 2022, that "severely affected" government services in Carinthia, the Austrian state has budgeted 500,000 euros to restore services and boost its cybersecurity and reinstated its passport issuance system, which was affected (..)

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Bureau Touts ‘All-Time High’ Public-Private Coordination Despite Rise in Attacks FBI officials said Wednesday that the federal government is preventing advanced ransomware attacks targeting a range of institutions with the help of new information-sharing and victim engagement initiatives with organizations across the public and private sectors.

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MAY 16, 2023

A Russian man identified by KrebsOnSecurity in January 2022 as a prolific and vocal member of several top ransomware groups was the subject of two indictments unsealed by the Justice Department today. Previous reporting here revealed that Matveev’s alter egos included “ Orange, ” the founder of the RAMP ransomware forum.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

Thoroughly Restrict Admin-Level Access to Systems, US Government Advisory Warns How many ways do U.S. businesses need to be told to lock down their systems to safeguard themselves from ransomware? government pertaining to BlackMatter, following an advisory issued last month about Conti.

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MAY 31, 2022

Costa Rica’s national health service was hacked sometime earlier this morning by a Russian ransomware group known as Hive. The intrusion comes just weeks after Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared a state of emergency in response to a data ransom attack from a different Russian ransomware gang — Conti.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Counter Ransomware Group Focuses on Timely Reporting, Avoiding Paying the Ransom New voluntary ransomware guidance released during the International Counter Ransomware Initiative meeting this week calls for victims to report attacks to law enforcement on a more timely basis - and involve more advisors in deciding whether to pay a ransom.

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JUNE 1, 2021

Experts Say Ransomware Hasn't Slowed Down Since Colonial Pipeline The White House says on Tuesday it has contacted Russia regarding the ransomware attack against JBS SA, the multinational meat producer. government after Colonial Pipeline, but experts say the ransomware scourge is clearly business as usual.

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MAY 17, 2022

Threat Group Seeking to Gain Access to Other Government Systems Ransomware actor Conti, which has been targeting Costa Rican government entities since April 2022, has claimed on its leak site Conti News that it has "insiders" in the country's government, and they are working toward the compromise of "other systems."

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

UK Crime and Cybersecurity Agencies Urge 'Holistic' View of Ransomware Ecosystem Stopping the ransomware epidemic is less about tackling individual crypto-locking malware variants and more about combating the entire ecosystem of bad actors underpinning digital extortion, the British government said Monday.

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MARCH 1, 2022

A Ukrainian security researcher this week leaked several years of internal chat logs and other sensitive data tied to Conti , an aggressive and ruthless Russian cybercrime group that focuses on deploying its ransomware to companies with more than $100 million in annual revenue. “There will be panic. 428 hospitals.”

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JANUARY 28, 2022

In December 2021, researchers discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service named ALPHV (a.k.a. “ BlackCat “), considered to be the first professional cybercrime group to create and use a ransomware strain written in the Rust programming language. Image: Varonis. Image: Varonis. ” Meanwhile, the U.S.

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MAY 16, 2023

government says has been a key actor in Russian ransomware hacking faces federal criminal charges, economic sanctions and a $10 million reward for information leading to his arrest. Mikhail Matveev, aka Wazawaka, was a central figure of the Babuk ransomware-as-a-service gang.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A number of publications in September warned about the emergence of “ Groove ,” a new ransomware group that called on competing extortion gangs to unite in attacking U.S. government interests online. 22 post from Groove calling for attacks on the United States government sector. ” reads the Oct.

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