On February 4, the FBI issued a Flash Alert: Indicators of Compromise Associated with LockBit 2.0 Ransomware Today, HHS’s Cybersecurity Program issued its companion HC3 alert. It says, in part: Impact to HPH Sector Although the LockBit 2.0 cybercrime gang claims to not attack healthcare organizations, all ransomware continues to act as a major cyber…
Category: Malware
More than half of Canadian ransomware victims paid the ransom demands in 2021 – study
TORONTO, Febr. 7, 2022 /CNW/ – Canadian IT company, NOVIPRO, today unveiled its sixth annual IT Portrait of Canadian Businesses in collaboration with Leger, which revealed the deep vulnerability of Canadian companies to computer attacks. The study reveals that more than half (56%) of organizations targeted by malware have paid the amounts requested by cybercriminals. Of these,…
Swissport ransomware attack leads to flight delays
Connor Jones reports: Aviation services company Swissport announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack on Friday, with some flights forced into delays and other operations disrupted. Neither the ransomware operator nor the type of ransomware used against the company is currently known, but the company reacted quickly to contain the attack, despite the disruption it caused….
An ALPHV (BlackCat) representative discusses the group’s plans for a ransomware ‘meta-universe’
Interesting interview by Dmitry Smilyanets.
A look at the new Sugar ransomware demanding low ransoms
Lawrence Abrams reports: A new Sugar Ransomware operation actively targets individual computers, rather than corporate networks, with low ransom demands. First discovered by the Walmart Security Team, ‘Sugar’ is a new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation that launched in November 2021 but has slowly been picking up speed. The name of the ransomware is based on the…
France, Department of Seine-Saint-Denis: ransomware attack, several municipalities involved
Marco A. DeFelice reports: In the night between 5 and 6 December last, the ransomware group Hive managed to penetrate the IT systems of the Syndicat Intercommunal d’Informatique (SII), an IT service provider based in Bobigny, a municipality of 54,000 people north of Paris. In addition to the city of Bobigny, the SII provides IT…