A ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the hack on Kettering Health, a network of hospitals, clinics, and medical centers in Ohio. The healthcare system is still recovering two weeks after the ransomware attack forced it…
Kettering Health, a network with dozens of medical and emergency centers in Ohio, is still working to recover and return to normal operations two weeks after a ransomware attack prompted “a system-wide technology outage.” On…
Stern’s eminence within Russian cybercrime has been widely documented. The cryptocurrency-tracing firm Chainalysis does not publicly name cybercriminal actors and declined to comment on BKA’s identification, but the company emphasized that the Stern persona alone…
For as long as I’ve been on the internet, I’ve been warned not to download anything without verifying it first, especially if it’s a program or executable. It’s as true today as it was back…
Malware is a thing you just have to be aware of. But it’s pretty rare that it can actually damage your computer in a permanent sense — wipe the drive if you’re okay with losing…
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…