IT Sec News updates – Ransomware Attacks

TechTarget

TechTarget's ransomware database determined that eight out of the 23 victim disclosures and confirmed attacks in August were part of the education …

ABC

A notorious Russian ransomware gang which infiltrated one of Australia's largest law firms has now targeted a string of Victorian businesses, …

Dallas Morning News

An internal review of Dallas' ransomware attack determined files associated with the breach were on roughly 996 of more than 15000 computers, …

Philadelphia Inquirer

Ransomware is a type of malicious software that freezes an organization's software. Perpetrators demand a payment to release the system. They also …

Dallas Morning News

Dallas officials say they will disclose more information about the ransomware attack earlier this year in a report to City Council members on …

WOODTV.com

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (ABC 4)- As technology evolves and our reliance on the internet increases, questions surrounding cybersecurity, ransomware and …

SecurityWeek

According to the company, although file-encrypting ransomware was not executed on its systems, the LockBit ransomware group did manage to exfiltrate …

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

The bad guys have also fine tuned their game such that ransoms are actually right sized to the business.

SC Magazine

Microsoft SQL servers accessible through the internet have been targeted with brute-force attacks distributing the novel Mimic ransomware variant …

SC Magazine

… district officials have confirmed to be caused by a ransomware attack, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.