Collaborate Disseminate
The claim comes after Conti doubled its extortion demand to $20 million and called for the overthrow of the government.
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A Conti affiliate claimed responsibility and has posted more than 672 GB of data so far.
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Costa Rica’s outgoing president, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, has said that a ransomware attack on the government’s computer systems was an attempt to destabilise the country as it transitions to a new administration.
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Conti — one of the most ruthless and successful Russian ransomware groups — publicly declared during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic that it would refrain from targeting healthcare providers. But new information confirms this pledge was always a lie, and that Conti has launched more than 200 attacks against hospitals and other healthcare facilities since first surfacing in 2018 under the name “Ryuk.” Continue reading Conti’s Ransomware Toll on the Healthcare Industry
Links in tooling, crypto wallets and even attacking victims simultaneously strongly suggest a link, researchers say.
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By Deeba Ahmed
All of Nordex’s internal IT systems were shut down, and remote access to the turbines was disrupted due…
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By Deeba Ahmed
All of Nordex’s internal IT systems were shut down, and remote access to the turbines was disrupted due…
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Online photography printing service Shutterfly has disclosed that it has suffered a security breach at the hands of a ransomware gang that exposed the personal information of some employees. Continue reading Shutterfly, hit by Conti ransomware group, warns staff their data has been stolen
Google’s Threat Analysis Group is calling the hackers Exotic Lily, and it says they employed relatively novel tactics.
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A Twitter account known as ContiLeaks debuted to much fanfare in late February, with people around the globe watching as tens of thousands of leaked chats between members of the Russia-based ransomware gang Conti hit the web. In the days after the leaks, many celebrated what they thought would be a devastating blow to Conti, which a Ukrainian security researcher had apparently punished by leaking the internal chats because the gang threatened to “strike back” at any entities that organized “any war activities against Russia.” But ten days after the leaks began, Conti appears to be thriving. Experts say the notorious ransomware gang has pivoted all too easily, replacing much of the infrastructure that was exposed in the leaks while moving quickly to hit new targets with ransom demands. According to Vitali Kremez, CEO of the cybersecurity firm AdvIntel, by Monday morning Conti had successfully completed two new data breaches at […]
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