While the number of ransomware attacks stayed about the same in the past year, cybercriminals are using more effective tactics such as weaponizing breach disclosure deadlines to extract higher ransoms, according to ENISA's 2024 Threat Landscape report.
New voluntary ransomware guidance released during the International Counter Ransomware Initiative meeting this week calls for victims to report attacks to law enforcement on a more timely basis - and involve more advisers in deciding whether to pay a ransom.
A clinic in Hawaii is notifying 124,000 patients that their health data was potentially compromised in a May hack. LockBit 3.0 claims to have published the stolen records on its data leak site in June - months before global authorities this week disclosed a crackdown on the cybercrime gang.
California-based Graybill Medical Group physicians' practice says it's splitting up with its affiliate practice, Palomar Medical Group, which handles a variety of management services, because the firm allegedly provided an "inadequate" response to a cyberattack detected in May.
Russian intelligence agencies tasked the notorious Russian-speaking cybercrime syndicate Evil Corp with conducting cyberattacks and cyberespionage operations on behalf of the Russian government, British police said Tuesday. Evil Corp has stolen at least $100 million from victims.
Law enforcement from the United States, United Kingdom, France and Spain made a coordinated announcement Tuesday of further arrests, indictments, sanctions and server takedowns targeting the Russian cybercriminal underground including strikes against the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service operation.
University Medical Center, a Lubbock, Texas-based public health system that includes a level-one trauma center and a children's hospital, is diverting ambulances and working to restore an IT outage affecting some patient services in the wake of a ransomware attack late last week.
The International Counter Ransomware Initiative is kicking off a four-day summit Monday in Washington that aims to coordinate the group’s 68 member nations around a series of global efforts designed to enhance information sharing and develop strategies to deter ransomware attacks.
Two U.S. senators are proposing stricter cyber mandates for the healthcare sector. The bill provides funding to help hospitals adopt enhanced requirements, but lifts HIPAA enforcement fine caps and threatens executives with prison time for falsely attesting their organizations' compliance in audits.
Ransomware attacks in Asia are escalating, showing a 39% year-on-year increase. Notably, Indonesia has experienced the highest number of data leaks, with 58 incidents, followed by Thailand with 30.
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Threat actors tracked as "Vanilla Tempest" - and also known as Vice Society - appear to be changing up the ransomware they use to attack on U.S. healthcare organizations. Likely in a move to avoid detection, the ransomware-as-a-service group has shifted to INC Ransom malware, according to Microsoft.
Organizations face growing challenges from cyber incidents. Former CISOs Heather Lowrie and Jon Staniforth share insights on enhancing preparedness through cyber exercises, proactively communicating with law enforcement and ensuring consistent messaging during incidents.
Ransomware attacks are declining across many sectors - but not in healthcare, where an ongoing surge is reaching a four-year high in incidents, according to new research from security firm Sophos, which surveyed 5,000 IT leaders across 15 sectors and 14 countries between January and February.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has updated the scope of the MOVEit hacking breach last year, telling a sister agency that the software supply chain attack affected more than 3.1 million individuals - about three times the number of victims disclosed publicly earlier this month.
A Pennsylvania-based healthcare system that was hacked by ransomware group BlackCat in 2023 and extorted over stolen exam photos of breast cancer patients posted to a data leak site has agreed to pay $65 million under a proposed settlement of a lawsuit affecting 134,000 patients and employees.
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