IT Sec News updates – Ransomware Attacks

The Hacker News

Q1 2024 had 22% less ransomware attacks than Q4 2023. Why is that and is it a trend that will continue?

SC Magazine

Ransomware has reportedly brought upon a week-long outage at U.S. bakery-cafe fast food restaurant chain Panera Bread beginning March 22 that …

Becker’s Hospital Review

Ransomware group targets UnitedHealth Group's Change Healthcare for extortion after recent cyberattack. Company reportedly paid $22M to previous …

TheRegister.

Change Healthcare is allegedly being extorted by a second ransomware gang, mere weeks after recovering from an ALPHV attack. RansomHub claimed …

Dark Reading

Change Healthcare reportedly is facing another attack, this time by ransomware gang RansomHub, just weeks after it became a victim in an …

PCMag

The RansomHub gang suggests it pulled off the UnitedHealth hack but was ironically swindled out of the $22 million ransom by the ALPHV/Blackcat …

The Hill

Ransomware is not new. It is the modern-day mutation of a very old extortion racket. Executives of Italy's major corporations were routinely kidnapped …

The HIPAA Journal

The Medusa ransomware group has leaked data stolen from American Renal Associates. Moffitt Cancer Center has been affected by a cyberattack on a …

The Record by Recorded Future

Officials in Westminster are being urged to put more money behind operations to disrupt ransomware gangs in the wake of a growing number of …

Help Net Security

… ransomware gang claimed to have stolen 1.5 TB of data after breaching their systems. As cyberattacks and ransomware rates continue to increase …