First Maze Team did it. Now DoppelPaymer threat actors have followed suit. Lawrence Abrams reports: The operators of the DoppelPaymer Ransomware have launched a site that they will use to shame victims who do not pay a ransom and to publish any files that were stolen before computers were encrypted. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Category: Malware
How the Grand Est region fights against the ransomware attack that paralyzed its computer network
Today I learned that Grand Est region is in northeastern France. From EngNews24h on February 21: On the evening of February 13, the 80 servers in the Grand Est region were corrupted by a cyber attack. The entire system data was encrypted, and a ransom demand was made. The region has not responded, and is…
Rabun County in Georgia thwarts apparent computer hacking attempt
Megan Broome reports: The county’s computer system was recently hit with what was thought to be ransomware, according to Darrin Giles, county administrator, in a phone interview Monday. Ransomware is a type of malicious software, or malware, designed to deny access to a computer system or data until a ransom is paid. Giles said that…
Grayson County, Texas systems offline due to ransomware attack
Meredith McCown reports: The state is investigating after Grayson County government systems were hit with a ransomware attack early Monday morning. Information Technology Director Ken Miller says their records management system was down when employees got to work. Read more on KXII.
WA: A ransomware attack took the 16-school district offline for more than two weeks
Megan Radogna reports on a ransomware attack on a school district — a ransomware attack in July that this site sadly seems to have overlooked. The Moses Lake School District, which encompasses 16 schools, was hit by a ransomware attack launched from a phishing email that originated from an IP address in Moscow. The district refused…
Has IIT Madras been hit by ransomware that is holding all their research data hostage?
Parvathi Benu Students at IIT Madras, the top-ranked institution in the country by the NIRF, are petrified that they have lost all their data, after a suspected ransomware attack on the institute’s internet and Command and Control servers since Wednesday. Even though the institute says that it has a back-up for everything on the email…