The Week in Ransomware – April 5th 2024 – Virtual Machines under Attack
Ransomware attacks targeting VMware ESXi and other virtual machine platforms are wreaking havoc among the enterprise, causing widespread disruption and…
Panera Bread week-long IT outage caused by ransomware attack
Panera Bread's recent week-long outage was caused by a ransomware attack, according to people familiar with the matter and emails…
SEXi Ransomware Desires VMware Hypervisors in Ongoing Campaign
A Babuk variant has been involved in at least four attacks on VMware EXSi servers in the last six weeks,…
Lessons From the LockBit Takedown
The truly satisfying law enforcement takedown of the ransomware giant shows the value of collaborating — and fighting back.
Institutionalizing Awareness to Stop Cyberattacks
By Aimei Wei, Founder and CTO, Stellar Cyber Large and mid-sized organizations are always hoping for a ‘silver bullet’ technology…
INC Ransom threatens to leak 3TB of NHS Scotland stolen data
The INC Ransom extortion gang is threatening to publish three terabytes of data allegedly stolen after breaching the National Health Service…
Ransomware as a Service and the Strange Economics of the Dark Web
Ransomware is quickly changing in 2024, with massive disruptions and large gangs shutting down. Learn from Flare how affiliate competition…
CISA urges software devs to weed out SQL injection vulnerabilities
CISA and the FBI urged executives of technology manufacturing companies to prompt formal reviews of their organizations' software and implement mitigations to…
StopCrypt: Most widely distributed ransomware now evades detection
A new variant of StopCrypt ransomware (aka STOP) was spotted in the wild, employing a multi-stage execution process that involves…
StopCrypt: Most widely distributed ransomware evolves to evade detection
A new variant of StopCrypt ransomware (aka STOP) was spotted in the wild, employing a multi-stage execution process that involves…