IT Sec News updates – Ransomware Attacks

The Hacker News

Microsoft reveals Vanilla Tempest using INC ransomware to target U.S. healthcare. Threat actor exploits GootLoader, deploys various tools for …

CyberScoop

“The rewards of ransomware are so great” for attackers, said Brett Callow, a managing director at FTI Consulting. “We really need a very powerful …

YouTube

During Wednesday's Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) questioned witnesses on recent …

Dark Reading

Inc ransomware — one of the most popular among cybercriminals today — meets healthcare, the industry sector most targeted by RaaS.

SiliconANGLE

Kimberly Goody, head of cyber crime analysis at Google, talks about ransomware attacks at SECURITY. Ransomware attacks surge with skyrocketing ransom …

Infosecurity Magazine

The SpyCloud team identified multi-factor authentication bypass via session hijacking, and infostealer malware, as driving ransomware growth. One in …

SC Magazine

BleepingComputer reports that attacks with the INC ransomware payload have been deployed by the Vanilla Tempest threat operation, also known as …

CSO Online

Microsoft's threat intelligence team observed the threat actor using a borrowed Gootloader infection to deploy INC ransomware on victim systems.

SC Media UK

He said: “Ransomware is a symptom of this cybercrime ecosystem, which created the conditions for something like ransomware to come along: and …

CircleID

FBI ransomware negotiations: Additionally, Wray praised the FBI's efforts to combat ransomware, highlighting how the agency has saved …