UK Hospital Hackers Say They’ve Demanded $50 Million in Ransom June 19, 2024 By Ryan Gallagher A cohort of Russian-speaking hackers is demanding $50 million from a UK lab-services provider to end a ransomware attack that...
London Hospitals Knew of Cyber Vulnerabilities Years Before Hack June 17, 2024 By Ryan Gallagher A group of London hospitals struggling to contain the fallout from a cyberattack against a critical supplier had known for...
US Indicts Leader of Prolific LockBit Ransomware Gang May 7, 2024 By Ryan Gallagher and Jamie Tarabay The leader of one of the most prolific ransomware gangs was indicted and sanctioned by the US government on Tuesday,...
Clorox Audit Revealed Cybersecurity Flaws at Its Plants in 2020 March 27, 2024 By Ryan Gallagher and Leslie Patton A few years before a 2023 cyberattack disrupted manufacturing at one of the largest US producers of disinfectants ahead of...
Russia’s LockBit Disrupted But Not Dead, Hacking Experts Warn February 22, 2024 By Jordan Robertson and Ryan Gallagher Two arrests. Twenty-eight servers seized. And 1,000 decryption keys obtained that can help hacking victims worldwide get their data back....
Wall Street Stock-Lending Platform Crashes in Ransomware Attack January 25, 2024 By Donal Griffin and Ryan Gallagher The criminal hacking gang LockBit said it was behind a ransomware attack that shut down some of the operations of...
US Seizes BlackCat Ransomware Site, Offering Decryption Tool December 28, 2023 By Jeff Stone and Ryan Gallagher The US Justice Department seized websites belonging to a notorious Russian-speaking ransomware group, upending hackers that have extorted millions of...
US, UK Say Russia Targeted Officials in Political Cyber Campaign December 8, 2023 By Ellen Milligan, Ryan Gallagher and Katrina Manson The US and UK have launched a coordinated effort to disrupt a longtime alleged Russian government hacking campaign aimed at...
Clorox Cyber Chief Leaves While Company Recovers From Devastating Hack November 16, 2023 By Ryan Gallagher and Leslie Patton The chief information security officer at Clorox Co. has left the company as it works to recover from a hack...
Russia-Linked Hackers Claim Credit for OpenAI Outage November 13, 2023 By Ryan Gallagher A hacking group linked to Russia claimed responsibility for attacks that periodically forced OpenAI’s ChatGPT offline last week, saying it...