IT Sec News updates – Ransomware Attacks

HHS.gov

HHS OCR Settles Ransomware Cybersecurity Investigation under HIPAA Security Rule for $250000 with Cascade Eye and Skin Centers, P.C. in Washington …

Yahoo Finance

Alongside an increase in the rate of ransomware attacks, the healthcare sector reported increasingly longer recovery times. Only 22% of ransomware …

Recorded Future

Ransomware is a type of malware that locks down the victim's system, makes files inaccessible and demands payment to release them. They have gotten …

Security Intelligence

Here's what healthcare organizations need to know about why ransomware works so well, what attackers want and how past compromises drive trends.

StateScoop

Ransomware attacks rose 73% between 2022 and 2023, according a report published Thursday by the Ransomware Task Force, part of the Institute for …

KLBK

University Medical Center said ransomware was the cause of the technology issues the facility faced on Thursday. The hospital said it diverted …

Microsoft

Since then, most of the threat actor's attacks have been opportunistic, as the group began operating as a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) affiliate …

TechTarget

The Institute for Security and Technology's Ransomware Task Force warned of a significant increase in ransomware activity between 2022 and 2023.

KUOW

A ransomware gang is attempting to sell a trove of stolen Port of Seattle data for 6 million dollars in Bitcoin – after the Port refused to pay up.

The Record from Recorded Future News

The Ransomware Task Force found 66 different groups attacked targets in 117 countries in 2023. Both numbers represented increases over the …