A leak site used by the Everest ransomware gang was hacked and defaced this weekend, TechCrunch has learned. The leak site, which the ransomware gang uses to publish stolen files to extort its victims into…
NHS vendor Advanced will pay just over £3 million ($3.8 million) in fines for not implementing basic security measures before it suffered a ransomware attack in 2022, the U.K.’s data protection regulator has confirmed. It’s…
The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA), a labor union representing educators across the state, says hackers stole the sensitive personal information of more than half a million of its members. PSEA is the largest organization…
Security researchers have observed hackers linked to the notorious LockBit gang exploiting a pair of Fortinet firewall vulnerabilities to deploy ransomware on several company networks. In a report published last week, security researchers at Forescout…
Rostislav Panev, a 51-year-old dual Russian-Israeli national, who is accused of being a key developer for the notorious LockBit ransomware gang, has been extradited from Israel to the United States, the Department of Justice announced…
A ransomware group called Hunters International has published some of the data it claims to have stolen from Tata Technologies, just over a month after the Indian company confirmed a ransomware attack that resulted in…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday criminal charges against the administrators of the Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex for allegedly facilitating money laundering by criminal and terrorist organizations, as well as violating U.S. sanctions. …
The FBI is warning that scammers are impersonating the BianLian ransomware gang using fake ransom notes sent to U.S. corporate executives. The fake ransom notes, first reported by U.S. cybersecurity company GuidePoint Security, claim that…
U.S. technology giant Broadcom is warning that a trio of VMware vulnerabilities are being actively exploited by malicious hackers to compromise the networks of its corporate customers. The three vulnerabilities — collectively dubbed “ESXicape” by…
As disruption from a suspected ransomware attack on newspaper publishing giant Lee Enterprises enters its second month, the cyberattack is also affecting payments to freelancers and contractors who work for the company, TechCrunch has learned.…