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Ransomware Charges Unsealed Against Russian National in District of Columbia

Posted on May 16, 2023 by Dissent

WASHINGTON – An indictment was unsealed today in the District of Columbia charging a Russian national with participating in a global ransomware campaign which deployed ransomware variants against victims in the District of Columbia, the United States, and around the world. Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, alleged to use the online monikers Wazawaka, m1x, Broriscelcin, and Uhodiransomwar,…

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Russian National Charged with Ransomware Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure

Posted on May 16, 2023 by Dissent

The Justice Department today unsealed two indictments charging a Russian national and resident with using three different ransomware variants to attack numerous victims throughout the United States, including law enforcement agencies in Washington, D.C. and New Jersey, as well as victims in healthcare and other sectors nationwide. According to the indictment obtained in the District…

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Ransomware corrupts data, so backups can be faster and cheaper than paying up

Posted on May 15, 2023 by Dissent

Simon Sharwood reports: Ransomware actors aim to spend the shortest amount of time possible inside your systems, and that means the encryption they employ is shoddy and often corrupts your data. That in turn means restoration after paying ransoms is often a more expensive chore than just deciding not to pay and working from our…

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CrowdStrike finds new ransomware-as-a-service group targeting VMWare ESXi servers (5 tips to fight back)

Posted on May 15, 2023 by Dissent

Nancy  Liu reports: CrowStrike discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group — MichaelKors (formerly Qilin) — targeting VMWare ESXi servers since last month. The VMWare ESXi is a hypervisor that runs and manages virtual machines (VMs) directly on a dedicated host’s hardware. The products associated with the ESXi platform include VMware vSphere Hypervisor, vCenter, ONE Access or Identity…

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Philadelphia Inquirer hit by cyberattack causing newspaper’s largest disruption in decades

Posted on May 15, 2023 by Dissent

AP reports: The Philadelphia Inquirer experienced the most significant disruption to its operations in 27 years due to what the newspaper calls a cyberattack. The company was working to restore print operations after a cyber incursion that prevented the printing of the newspaper’s Sunday print edition, the Inquirer reported on its website. Read more at…

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Ransomware attack on PharMerica affected 5.8 million patients

Posted on May 13, 2023 by Dissent

While the Fortra/GoAnywhere data breach by Clop is shaping up to be the biggest, or one of the biggest, breaches affecting HIPAA-covered entities and business associates in 2023, an attack by Money Message on PharMerica is currently the largest single breach reported so far this year, with almost 6 million affected. On April 8, DataBreaches…

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