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Dark Reading
Government agencies, emergency clinics, and others in Australia, New Zealand, and Tonga have had serious run-ins with the prolific ransomware outfit.
The Hacker News
A "dangerous piece of functionality" has been discovered in Microsoft 365 suite that could be potentially abused by a malicious actor to ransom files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive and launch attacks on cloud infrastructure. The cloud ransomware attack makes it possible to launch file-encrypting malware to "encrypt files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive in a way that makes them unrecoverable
The Register
AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny that In retrospect, calling it Mythos made it a hostage to fortune. Anthropic may have hoped that the name implied its AI code security model had mythical god-like powers, but there's an alternate reading. Another definition for Mythos is a set of beliefs of obscure origin which are incompatible with reality.… Opinion
The Hacker News
Imagine a sophisticated cyberattack cripples your organization’s most critical productivity and collaboration tool — the platform you rely on for daily operations. In the blink of an eye, hackers encrypt your emails, files, and crucial business data stored in Microsoft 365, holding it hostage using ransomware. Productivity grinds to a halt and your IT team races to assess the damage as the clock
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity in healthcare has never been more urgent. As the most vulnerable industry and largest target for cybercriminals, healthcare is facing an increasing wave of cyberattacks. When a hospital's systems are held hostage by ransomware, it’s not just data at risk — it’s the care of patients who depend on life-saving treatments. Imagine an attack that forces emergency care to halt, surgeries
The Hacker News
Get exclusive insights from a real ransomware negotiator who shares authentic stories from network hostage situations and how he managed them. The Ransomware Industry Ransomware is an industry. As such, it has its own business logic: organizations pay money, in crypto-currency, in order to regain control over their systems and data. This industry's landscape is made up of approximately 10-20
Dark Reading
Much like a hostage's proof-of-life video, the ransomware gang offers the film as verification that it has the goods, and asks $1 million for the data.
The Register
Nothing like your medical files being taken hostage for millions of dollars Newish ransomware gang Royal has been spotted targeting the healthcare sector, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has said.…
Krebs on Secuity
Netflix has a new documentary series airing next week -- "Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet" -- in which Yours Truly apparently has a decent amount of screen time. The debut episode explores the far-too-common harassment tactic of "swatting" -- wherein fake bomb threats or hostage situations are phoned in to police as part of a scheme to trick them into visiting potentially deadly force on a target’s address.