The Week in Ransomware – January 6th 2023 – Targeting Healthcare
This week saw a lot of ransomware news, ranging from new extortion tactics, to a ransomware gang giving away a…
200 million Twitter users’ email addresses allegedly leaked online
A data leak described as containing email addresses for over 200 million Twitter users has been published on a popular…
Royal ransomware claims attack on Queensland University of Technology
The Royal ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a recent cyberattack on the Queensland University of Technology and begun to…
Ransomware gang cloned victim’s website to leak stolen data
The ALPHV ransomware operators have gotten creative with their extortion tactic and, in at least one case, created a replica…
Ransomware gang apologizes, gives SickKids hospital free decryptor
The LockBit ransomware gang has released a free decryptor for the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), saying one of its…
What we can learn from The Undeclared War
By Nicole Allen, Senior Marketing Executive at Salt Communications The Undeclared War, a drama series on Channel 4, […] The…
Royal ransomware claims attack on Intrado telecom provider
The Royal Ransomware gang claimed responsibility for a cyber attack against telecommunications company Intrado on Tuesday. [...]
Ransomware attack at Louisiana hospital impacts 270,000 patients
The Lake Charles Memorial Health System (LCMHS) is sending out notices of a data breach affecting almost 270,000 people who have…
Hacker claims to be selling Twitter data of 400 million users
A threat actor claims to be selling public and private data of 400 million Twitter users scraped in 2021 using…
Massive Twitter data leak investigated by EU privacy watchdog
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched an inquiry following last month's news reports of a massive Twitter data leak.…