IT Sec News updates – Ransomware Attacks

Dallas Morning News

At least Dallas City Council members say they weren't aware of the scope of people impacted by a May ransomware attack before city officials …

CBS News

In early May, hackers​ accessed names, addresses, medical data and other information through city government servers.

Help Net Security

Sophos released new findings into the connections between the most prominent ransomware groups this past year, including Royal, in its Clustering …

WFAA

DALLAS — At least 26,212 Texans had their personal information accessed by hackers due to a ransomware attack against the city of Dallas …

FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth

We now know the ransomware attack on the city of Dallas has cost taxpayers more than $8.5 million so far. Dallas City Council members approved …

Help Net Security

The volume of ransomware detections continues to be volatile, closing 1H 2023 13x higher than the end of 2022 but still on a downward trend.

NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

The Dallas City Council Wednesday agreed to pay $8.5 million for expenses related to the ransomware attack first revealed in May.

YouTube

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The Hacker News

First observed in May 2023, the Rhysida ransomware group is known to rely on phishing attacks and Cobalt Strike to breach targets' networks and deploy …

Dark Reading

“Usually, ransomware stores the ransom note text as strings in the binary,” Chetan Raghuprasad, a Cisco Talos cybersecurity researcher, wrote in the …