IT Sec News updates – Ransomware Attacks

The Verge

Hours after law enforcement took down a dark web site for the ALPHV / BlackCat ransomware gang, it came back with threats of future attacks on …

WIRED

After an 18-month rampage, global law enforcement finally moved against the notorious Alphv/BlackCat ransomware group. Within hours, the operation …

The Hacker News

Play ransomware, impacting 300 entities worldwide, employs a double-extortion model by exfiltrating data before encryption.

Axios

Screenshot: Law enforcement seizure notice on the BlackCat ransomware gang's dark web site. Federal law enforcement officials announced Tuesday they …

TechCrunch

Law enforcement agencies claim to have seized the dark web leak site of the notorious ALPHV ransomware gang, also known as BlackCat.

The Hacker News

The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) has officially announced the disruption of the BlackCat ransomware operation and released a decryption tool that …

CyberScoop

The ransomware gang is among the most prolific and has more than 1,000 victims, totaling hundreds of millions of dollars paid in ransoms. It has hit …

HealthITSecurity

Also known as ALPHV or Noberus, BlackCat became a notorious ransomware-as-a-service variant over the past 18 months, launching cyberattacks against …

Bleeping Computer

The Department of Justice announced today that the FBI successfully breached the ALPHV ransomware operation's servers to monitor their activities …

Engadget

The US Department of Justice says it has disrupted the Blackcat ransomware group. Also called ALPHV or Noberus, the group has targeted over 1000 …