The BlackBasta ransomware operation has moved its social engineering attacks to Microsoft Teams, posing as corporate help desks contacting employees to assist them with an ongoing spam attack.
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.
Data on over 100 million people was exposed because of the ransomware attack on UnitedHealth subsidiary Change Healthcare earlier this year, according to a document from the US Department of ...
More than 100 million individuals had their private health information stolen during the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare in February, a cyberattack that caused months of unprecedented ...
A new Rust-based version of the Qilin (Agenda) ransomware strain, dubbed 'Qilin.B,' has been spotted in attacks, featuring stronger encryption, better evasion from security tools, and the ability ...
Incident response firm GuidePoint Security is tracking around 70 ransomware groups, mostly from Eastern Europe but some from Iran, North Korea, and China. Some will settle for 50% of the original ...
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an advanced version of the Qilin ransomware sporting increased sophistication and tactics to evade detection. The new variant is being tracked by ...
ESET researchers have discovered new Rust-based tooling leading to the deployment of Embargo ransomware. Embargo is a relatively new player in the ransomware scene, first observed by ESET in June ...
Ransomware attacks have become ever more sophisticated. Attackers no longer just encrypt data – they threaten to expose sensitive data, though double extortion and triple extortion attacks. And ...
There is one sort of attack that illustrates this transition better than most: ransomware. Ransomware is an extremely lucrative example of computer crime going "corporate": incentivized by the ...
The Embargo ransomware group is deploying customized Rust-based tooling to overcome cybersecurity defenses, according to ESET researchers. The new toolkit was observed during ransomware incidents ...
and attempts to replace the desktop wallpaper to display a LockBit 2.0 banner. In a recent report, Trend Micro revealed that, prior to starting the encryption process, the ransomware would exfiltrate ...