IT Sec News updates – Ransomware Attacks

Bleeping Computer

While LogicMonitor did not confirm that ransomware attacks hit its affected customers, anonymous sources familiar with the incidents told …

The Record by Recorded Future

The LockBit ransomware gang took credit for an attack on the Commission des services electriques de Montréal (CSEM) — a 100-year-old municipal …

TechTarget

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Tech Wire Asia

Operation Duck Hunt: A cybersecurity milestone in ransomware takedown · U.S. authorities cripple a ransomware network, seizing US$9M in cryptocurrency.

SDxCentral

Palo Alto Networks, Cisco and Zscaler threat intelligence leaders weigh in on the alarming ransomware shift from encryption to extortion.

Bleeping Computer

Researchers took advantage of a weakness in the encryption scheme of Key Group ransomware and developed a decryption tool that lets some victims …

ABC27

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – The Chambersburg Area School District says they were the victim of a ransomware event. The district, which had to close …

Canadian Underwriter

Ransomware is “almost certainly the most disruptive form of cybercrime facing Canada” because it's pervasive and can have a serious impact on an …

Theregister

Even ransomware operators make mistakes, and in the case of ransomware gang the Key Group, a cryptographic error allowed a team of security …

SC Magazine

Georgia's Forsyth County was claimed to be compromised by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware operation in an attack initially disclosed by the county …