A ransomware attack has triggered a “system-wide technology outage” at a network of over a dozen medical centers in Ohio, causing the cancellation of elective inpatient and outpatient procedures, ...

The Akira ransomware gang was spotted using an unsecured webcam to launch encryption attacks on a victim's network, effectively circumventing Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), which was blocking ...

A joint investigation by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center and Microsoft Security Response Center found that a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System had been exploited by ...

Anubis, a relative newcomer cybercrime gang claims it stole 2 Tbytes of critical and sensitive patient data in an attack this ...

In the realm of cybercrime, change is arguably the only constant. While cyber-extortion as a broader category of crime has proved its staying power, ransomware – its arguably most damaging ‘flavor’ – ...

The Interlock ransomware gang now uses ClickFix attacks that impersonate IT tools to breach corporate networks and deploy file-encrypting malware on devices. ClickFix is a social engineering tactic ...

The pecking order of ransomware gangs is always shifting and evolving, with the most aggressive and reckless groups netting big payouts from vulnerable targets—but often ultimately flaming out.

In 2022, the ALPHV Ransomware as a Service group attacked the city of Alexandria, La., with its malware. Two years later, LockBit ransomware bandits attacked Wichita, Kans. Once novel RaaS gangs are ...

A new ransomware-as-a-service group called The Gentlemen is rapidly growing in 2026, with hundreds of victims already ...

On 7 May 2024, the presumed identity of the operator of the LockBit 3.0 franchise, also known as LockBitSupp, was revealed during UK National Crime Agency and its partners' Operation Cronos: Dmitry ...

Businesses in the Middle East are increasingly threatened by cyber attacks known as ransomware – and often, the security lapses that allow such attacks to happen begin inside the organisation itself, ...