IT Sec News updates – Ransomware Attacks

Traverse City Ticker

Ransomware is a “type of malicious software cyber actors use to deny access to systems or data” according to the U.S. Department of Justice. “The …

Becker’s Hospital Review

“Learn about the alarming spike in healthcare-related cyber incidents following Change Healthcare's ransomware attack and the impact of ransom …

Axios

“Even if a ransomware actor does not receive a ransom, they gain notoriety,” he said. What they found: There were 44 attacks against the health care …

Healthcare IT News

… ransomware attack that debilitated its IT systems also may have exposed protected health information and personally identifiable information for …

BankInfoSecurity

Ransomware attackers stole files that potentially contain patient and employee data from seven of Ascension's 25000 servers.

The Seattle Times

E-books are coming back to Seattle libraries, but more than two weeks later a ransomware attack continues to throttle many services.

The Economist

The threat of ransomware, the process of stealing or encrypting data for the purposes of extortion, is increasingly obvious. In Britain in recent …

AL.com

On Wednesday, Ascension said it determined the cause of the ransomware attack. “An individual working in one of our facilities accidentally downloaded …

BetaNews

The latest GRIT Ransomware Report from GuidePoint Security shows that May this year resulted in a 33 percent increase overall in ransomware …

UpNorthLive

The office said in a statement that after an investigation “the matter has been fully recognized as a ransomware incident.”