The Clop ransomware gang is expected to earn between $75-100 million from extorting victims of their massive MOVEit data theft campaign. In a new report released today, Coveware...
This edition of the Week in Ransomware covers the last two weeks of news, as we could not cover it last week, and includes quite a...
A new ransomware strain dubbed, Mallox (aka TargetCompany, FARGO, and Tohnichi) is actively targeting and attacking Microsoft SQL (MS-SQL) servers. Since June 2021, this new ransomware strain has...
Cybersecurity vendor Sophos is being impersonated by a new ransomware-as-a-service called SophosEncrypt, with the threat actors using the company name for their operation. Discovered yesterday by MalwareHunterTeam,...
A 28 years old Former IT security analyst of an Oxford-based company has been sentenced to three years for deceiving the company to extort money. On...
The number of data compromises reported in the U.S. in the H1 of 2023 is higher than the total compromises reported every year between 2005 and 2020, except...
A financially motivated cybercrime gang has been observed deploying BlackCat ransomware payloads on networks backdoored using a revamped Sardonic malware version. Tracked as FIN8 (aka Syssphinx), this threat...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has shared a factsheet providing details on free tools and guidance for securing digital assets after switching to...
The new NoEscape ransomware operation is believed to be a rebrand of Avaddon, a ransomware gang that shut down and released its decryption keys in 2021....
28-year-old Ashley Liles, a former IT employee, has been sentenced to over three years in prison for attempting to blackmail his employer during a ransomware attack....