Ransomware

Synlab Italia has suspended all its medical diagnostic and testing services after a ransomware attack forced its IT systems to be taken offline. […]

MarineMax, self-described as one of the world’s largest recreational boat and yacht retailers, says attackers stole employee and customer data after breaching its systems in a March cyberattack. […]

The cybercrime group called GhostSec has been linked to a Golang variant of a ransomware family called GhostLocker.
“TheGhostSec and Stormous ransomware groups are jointly conducting double extortion ransomware attacks on various business verticals in multiple countries,” Cisco Talos researcher Chetan Raghuprasad said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
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There are indications that U.S. healthcare giant Change Healthcare has made a $22 million extortion payment to the infamous BlackCat ransomware group (a.k.a. “ALPHV“) as the company struggles to bring services back online amid a cyberattack that has disrupted prescription drug services nationwide for weeks.

Is LockBit dead? Law enforcement and the group itself seem to be telling conflicting stories.

The U.S. State Department has announced monetary rewards of up to $15 million for information that could lead to the identification of key leaders within the LockBit ransomware group and the arrest of any individual participating in the operation.
“Since January 2020, LockBit actors have executed over 2,000 attacks against victims in the United States, and around the world, causing costly

Law enforcement arrested two operators of the LockBit ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine, created a decryption tool to recover encrypted files for free, and seized over 200 crypto-wallets after hacking the cybercrime gang’s servers in an international crackdown operation. […]

The North Korean state-sponsored threat actors have been attributed to a cyber espionage campaign targeting the defense sector across the world.
In a joint advisory published by Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) and South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), the agencies said the goal of the attacks is to plunder advanced defense technologies in a “

The Cactus ransomware gang claims they stole 1.5TB of data from Schneider Electric after breaching the company’s network last month. […]

The ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the recent network breaches of Fortune 500 company Prudential Financial and mortgage lender loanDepot. […]