On last Monday’s episode of “The Good Doctor,” Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) interrupts his girlfriend Lea Dilallo (Paige Spara), the hospital’s IT director, as she investigates a ransomware attack on the health care facility’s network. (ABC/Jeff Weddell) On the ABC medical drama “The Good Doctor,” the surgeons at San Jose
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Payment processor used by government hit by ‘Cuba’ ransomware gang
California DMV said no systems were compromised in an attack by the Cuba ransomware gang. (CA Dept of Insurance/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) The Cuba ransomware gang launched assaults in February on a payment processor widely used by many state and municipal agencies across the United States to manage utility bills and driver’s
Researchers identify 223 vulnerabilities used in recent ransomware attacks
Ransomware is getting worse. Cybersecurity analysts have been screaming this sentiment from the rooftops for years, but now new research examining the expanding landscape of software vulnerabilities leveraged in ransomware attacks offers up some hard numbers that put the depth of this problem into context. Researchers from RiskSense have identified as
Ransomware group claims it dumped source code of Cyberpunk 2077
FIN11 e-crime group shifted to clop ransomware and big game hunting
The financially motivated FIN11, which increasingly incorporated CL0P ransomware into their operations in 2020, appeared to rely on low-effort volume techniques like spamming malware for initial entry, but put a substantial amount of effort into each follow-up compromise. “Several of their recent ransom notes explicitly name data stolen from workstations
Malware variant becomes world’s most popular, thanks to ransomware surge
Ransomware actors are laundering hundreds of millions of dollars through pseudo-legitimate cryptocurrency exchanges, while early-stage malware that is often used to facilitate their attacks have become the most popular forms of malware in the world. According to new analysis from Check Point, Emotet was the most popular malware variant in December,
Chinese espionage group APT27 moves into ransomware
Researchers have discovered that the Chinese espionage group APT27 has moved into more financially-motivated cybercrimes, using ransomware to encrypt core servers at major gaming companies worldwide. In a blog released by Profero and Security Joes, researchers said the team first started following APT27 closely in early 2020 when they responded to
Treasury asks financial sector to watch out for COVID vaccine scams, ransomware
The United States Treasury’s Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN) asked the financial sector to watch for and report evidence of COVID-19 vaccine fraud, ransomware and other scams. In a notice sent out Monday, FinCEN detailed for banks or other financial services organizations potential issues, asking the sector to be particularly
New ransomware campaign exploits weak MySQL credentials to lock thousands of databases
Researchers at Guardicore Labs have uncovered a year-long malware-less ransomware campaign targeting millions of internet-facing MySQL databases. The campaign, named PLEASE_READ_ME by researchers, has been going on since January 2020 and has utilized an “extremely simple” attack chain to carry out at least 92 separate attacks over the past year, with
Kmart, a vulnerable target, among those hit in Egregor ransomware attack spree
The fast-moving Egregor ransomware added Kmart to its list of retail targets, one day before the same attack group hit the Vancouver metro. The fast-moving Egregor ransomware has already hit other recognizable companies, most notably Barnes and Noble. Egregor first emerged in September and since then more than 70 companies have