Ransomware Characteristics and Attack Chains – What you Need to Know about Recent Campaigns

Ransomware has been around for decades going back all the way to 1989. Since then it has only magnified in scope and complexity. Now at a time when working remotely is becoming more universal and the world is trying to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic, r… Continue reading Ransomware Characteristics and Attack Chains – What you Need to Know about Recent Campaigns

BBC Publishes Screenshots Allegedly Depicting Ransomware Negotiations Between NetWalker and UCSF

The BBC claims to have obtained proof of ransom negotiations between the NetWalker gang and the University of California San Francisco almost a week after the college publicly reported on the costly security incident. Readers might recall that NetWalke… Continue reading BBC Publishes Screenshots Allegedly Depicting Ransomware Negotiations Between NetWalker and UCSF

Watching a $1.14 million ransomware negotiation between hackers and scientists searching for COVID-19 treatments

An anonymous tip-off to BBC News enabled them to watch in real-time as an American medical university attempted to negotiate with the hackers who had infected its systems with ransomware.
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University of California San Francisco Pays $1 Million to Ransomware Operators after June 1 Attack

NetWalker ransomware operators have persuaded the University of California San Francisco to pay over $1 million in an extortion scheme using data-encrypting malware. The attack, UCSF officials say, didn’t even target the institution. UCSF’s… Continue reading University of California San Francisco Pays $1 Million to Ransomware Operators after June 1 Attack

Philadelphia-area health system says it ‘isolated’ a malware attack

A “malware attack” has hit computer systems at Crozer-Keystone Health System, a large health care provider in the Philadelphia suburbs, a spokesman for the organization said Friday. “After quickly identifying a recent malware attack, the Crozer-Keystone information technology team took immediate action and began remediating impacted systems,” Crozer-Keystone’s Rich Leonowitz said in an email statement. Crozer-Keystone owns four hospitals and four outpatient centers in and around Delaware County, Pennsylvania, according to its website. It was not immediately clear how, if at all, the cybersecurity incident impacted those facilities. Leonowitz declined to answer questions on the matter. “Having isolated the intrusion, we took necessary systems offline to prevent further risk,” Leonowitz’s statement continued. “We completed this work in collaboration with cybersecurity professionals across our health care system and are currently conducting a full investigation of the issue.” A set of hackers behind the NetWalker ransomware claimed responsibility for the attack. On their victim-shaming website, […]

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