A ransomware attack earlier this year on UnitedHealth-owned health tech company Change Healthcare likely stands as one of the largest data breaches of U.S. health and medical data in history. Months after the February data…
FBI’s seizure notice of the Radar/Dispossessor ransomware and extortion gang. Image Credits: FBI The FBI said Monday it seized the servers of a ransomware and extortion gang called Radar (aka Dispossessor). At the time of…
Earlier this year, an international coalition of law enforcement agencies took control of the dark web site of the notorious ransomware gang LockBit, replacing its content with the now-familiar message from the authorities: “This site…
A security researcher says six companies were saved from having to pay potentially hefty ransom demands, in part thanks to rookie security flaws found in the web infrastructure used by the ransomware gangs themselves. Two…
U.K. data protection authorities have issued a provisional fine of more than £6 million to NHS vendor Advanced after finding that the company failed to properly secure the information of thousands of people later stolen…
U.S.-based banking-as-a-service giant Evolve Bank & Trust has said that cybercriminals accessed the personal data of millions of customers during a recent cyberattack. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general on Monday, Evolve confirmed that…
On Wednesday, Evolve Bank and Trust, a financial institution that’s popular with fintech startups, announced that it had been victim of a cyberattack and data breach that could have affected its partner companies as well. …
Change Healthcare has confirmed a February ransomware attack on its systems, which brought widespread disruption to the U.S. healthcare system for weeks, resulted in the theft of medical records affecting a “substantial proportion of people…
Getty Images Ransomware criminals have quickly weaponized an easy-to-exploit vulnerability in the PHP programming language that executes malicious code on web servers, security researchers said. As of Thursday, Internet scans performed by security firm Censys…
Ransomware looked like it was on the decline in 2022, but a recent report by Chainalysis showed a significant rebound in 2023 — so much so that it was the most profitable year for ransomware…