Irish Health Service Hackers Offer Decryption Key – but $20M Ransom Demand Remains May 21, 2021 By Ryan Gallagher and Peter Flanagan A day after threatening to publicly release patient data, the hackers who targeted Ireland’s health service offered a decryption key...
Irish Patient Data May Have Been Posted on Dark Web After Cyber Attack: Minister Says May 20, 2021 By Peter Flanagan Reports of Irish patient data posted online after a cyber attack on Ireland’s health service appear to be accurate, a...
Ransomware Attacks Hit AXA’s Asia Units, New Zealand Health Provider May 19, 2021 By Chalida Ekvitthayavechnukul and Nick Perry BANGKOK (AP) – The Thai affiliate of Paris-based insurance company AXA said Tuesday it is investigating a ransomware attack by...
Ireland’s Health Service Operator Hit by ‘Significant’ Ransomware Attack May 14, 2021 By Padraic Halpin and Conor Humphries DUBLIN – Ireland’s health service operator shut down all its IT systems on Friday to protect them from a “significant”...
DarkSide Hacking Group Blamed for Ransomware Attack on Toshiba Unit May 14, 2021 PARIS – Toshiba Tec France Imaging System said on Friday that DarkSide, the hacking group blamed for crippling a major...
Ransomware Attack on Colonial Again Shows U.S. Ignores Warning After Warning May 11, 2021 By Brody Ford and Jennifer A. Dlouhy The ransomware attack that shut down the nation’s biggest fuel pipeline prompted an all-too familiar question in the corridors of...
UK Sees Surge in Cyber Scams Using Bogus Websites in 2020 May 11, 2021 By Thomas Seal Criminals launched more websites to trick people into giving up data, downloading malware and sending them money during 2020, taking...
Chinese Military Reported to Be Behind Japan Cyber Attacks April 21, 2021 By Isabel Reynolds and Alyza Sebenius China’s military is thought to have instructed a hacker group to conduct cyber attacks on nearly 200 Japanese research institutions...
Russian Spy Agency SVR Responsible for SolarWinds Hack: White House April 16, 2021 By Christopher Bing The White House said in a statement on Thursday that Russia’s foreign intelligence service, known as the SVR, was responsible...