A survey of nearly 1,000 IT and security professionals shows numerous organizations were targeted by ransomware attacks in the past year with a high degree of success, with most paying a ransom—many of which paid multiple times. Semperis, a cyber …
Two Russian nationals pleaded guilty to their roles in ransomware attacks in the US, Asia, Europe and Africa for a notorious hacking gang known as LockBit. Ruslan Astamirov and Mikhail Vasiliev admitted they helped to deploy the ransomware variant, which …
A hacker who claims to have stolen sensitive call and text logs from AT&T Inc. said they were paid about $400,000 to erase the data trove. An analysis of a Bitcoin wallet address provided by the hacker shows a transaction …
Evolve Bank & Trust confirmed it was the victim of a cyberattack and that customer data had been posted on the dark web, less than two weeks after the Arkansas-based lender was ordered by regulators to improve its risk management …
A hack on a London hospital has left hundreds of millions of health records exposed and forced doctors to reschedule life-altering cancer treatments. In North America, a gang tried auctioning off data about LendingTree Inc. customers after finding credentials in …
Car dealerships crippled by a cyberattack on software provider CDK Global probably won’t have their systems restored until the end of the month. In a message to clients Tuesday, CDK warned dealerships that because the outages could persist until June …
A hacking group called BlackSuit is behind the cyberattack on CDK Global that’s paralyzed car sales across the US, according to Allan Liska, a threat analyst at the security firm Recorded Future Inc. The cybercrime group has demanded an extortion …
Retail technology and software provider CDK Global has begun work to restore systems used by over 15,000 retail locations across North America, the company said in a statement on Sunday, adding that it expects the process to take “several days.” …
Cybercriminals are demanding payments of between $300,000 and $5 million apiece from as many as 10 companies breached in a campaign that targeted Snowflake Inc. customers, according to a security firm helping with the investigation. The hacking scheme has entered …
U.S. healthcare providers can ask UnitedHealth Group to notify people whose data was exposed during a hack on the company’s Change Healthcare unit in February, according to an update on the health department’s website. The news comes as a relief …
