Ransomware
Ransomware gang leaks documents of Lockheed Martin, Tesla, and Boeing
A Ransomware attack that took place on US aerospace manufacturing and design contractor Visser Precision has now led to the leak of some sensitive information related to companies belonging to aerospace, automotive and industrial manufacturing industries. As the contractor failed to pay heed to the demands of those spreading DopplePaymer Windows Ransomware, the hackers preferred […]
Ransomware attack on websites of COVID 19 treatment and Italy Social Security
Hackers seem to be finding it easy to target healthcare providers these days especially when the crisis of Coronavirus spread is at its peak as this is evident from what has been reported in the past couple of weeks. Earlier, reports were in that “Elite hackers” were targeting World Health Organization widely known as WHO. […]
Ransomware claims have doubled in 2019 say insurers
As the year 2019 has passed, a London based Insurance Company Beazley Group says that the number of ransomware claims doubled last year as the spike in the malware attacks was more evident in healthcare, professional services, and financial sector. Till 2016 reports from our insurers on ransomware attacks were infrequent. But the dynamics changed […]
Cyber Attack news trending on Google
Finastra, a London based technology solutions providing company has issued a press statement yesterday that it is shutting down some of its critical servers due to a cyberattack that targeted it on Thursday. Although the company hasn’t stated the details of the attack variant in its public statement, its incident response team is reported to […]
How Municipal Governments could protect against ransomware
As more and more cases regarding Municipalities being hit by ransomware are emerging day to day, Deloitte has come up with a to-do list that could help Municipalities safeguard their IT infrastructure from ransomware attacks. And they are as follows- Keeping data in the dispersed form is a great move as it disallows ransomware spreading […]
Ransomware shuts down Australian wool auction and erases data of Florida Police
The Australian wool auctioning event was shut down for a week as a ransomware attack on a supplier’s main software locked out the auctioning company from carrying on the event on a further note. Secretary of National Auction Selling Committee (NASC) has confirmed the news and said that the weeks auctioning has been canceled due […]
Report claims $11.5 billion loss from ransomware in 2019
A new report says that ransomware attacks quantified to $11.5 billion in damage in the year 2019 which confirms that those spreading file-encrypting malware has made some good profits for sure. According to a study made by Deep Instinct…hmm, not the Basic Instinct, hackers stayed more focused in 2019 in spreading ransomware and the loss […]
Ransomware leads to lawsuit and data concerns from NRC health
A Ransomware attack launched on New Jersey’s Hackensack Meridian Health on December 2nd, 2019 reportedly led to the disruption in services at 17 urgent care centers, hospitals, and nursing homes. At that time the hospital authorities paid an undisclosed sum to the hackers to retrieve encrypted files to normalcy and announced that there was no […]
Ransomware attack on ISS World
ISS World, a Denmark based company that is into catering, cleaning and security business is reported to have become a victim of a ransomware cyberattack. The company’s website has been inaccessible since Feb 17th of this week and the management at the London’s Surrey, Canary Wharf and Weybridge offices consisting of 43,000 staff members are […]
Ransomware data recovery on Amazon Cloud
Ransomware attacks have become a menace to companies and so Cloudian in association with Veeam has built an Object Storage on Amazon S3 Cloud platform to help companies combat ransomware attacks. The usage framework is simple to understand- When a file-encrypting malware hits a database; the encrypted files can be replaced by a Veeam backup […]
