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Rate of Ransomware Attacks in Healthcare Slows in H1 2020

But lull is unlikely to continue for long, some security experts say. The relatively low number of publicly disclosed ransomware attacks on healthcare...

Average Ransomware Payments Soared in the First Quarter

Criminals extorting large amounts of money from big enterprises pulled up the overall average significantly compared with the fourth quarter of 2019, Coveware...

Sodinokibi Crypto Ransomware Switches from Bitcoin to Monero to Hide Money Trail

A kind of ransomware — a malware that encrypts user data and asks for a ransom to restore access to it — switched...

Monero replaces Bitcoin for Sodinokibi Ransomware operators

As Bitcoins and BTC transactions are no more anonymous, those propelling Sodinokibi Ransomware have decided to abandon Bitcoin and switched to...

Incident Of The Week: Finastra’s Ransomware Attack

London-based Finastra, the world’s third largest FinTech bank with around 9,000 customers across 130 countries, reported that it detected a ransomware attack on...

Hackers try to breach WHO, other COVID-19-fighting orgs

“Elite” hackers have tried – and failed – to breach computer systems and networks of the World Health Organization (WHO) earlier this month,...

Attackers use a new CoronaVirus Ransomware to cover Kpot Infostealer infections

Coronavirus-themed attacks continue to increase, experts observed new Coronavirus ransomware that acts as a cover for Kpot Infostealer. Last week, security experts from...

Incident Of The Week: Defense Electronics Manufacturer CPI Succumbs To Ransomwar…

Ransomware is industry-agnostic. The motivations for cyber-criminals to pursue organizations and ransom their data is typically for the money. The days of spies...

The Cost Of An Enterprise Ransomware Attack

Cyber-attackers search enterprise networks millions of times every day to identify a vulnerability that can be exploited and provide access to sensitive company...

MedusaLocker Leaves No Network Drive Safe

As it stands, ransomware is the cybersecurity problem that refuses to disappear. What started as malware specifically targeting home users is now...

Coronavirus warning spreads computer virus

by Paul Ducklin Earlier this month, we reported on a phishing scam in which the lure was “safety measures”...

The hottest topic: Ransomware

The attacks that transpired last year alone arguably made ransomware the hot topic of the year and most likely a leading contender for 2020,...

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