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Western Digital Data Breach

Western Digital Data Breach: Ransomware Group Steals Customer Information

Western Digital, the digital storage giant, discovered on March 26. In response, the company shut down some services and informed customers about the cyberattack in early April. However, Western Digital did not provide any updates until May 5. Just days after the company’s second public statement, a ransomware group known as Alphv/BlackCat began publishing screenshots […]

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Hackers Target Veeam Backup Servers

Exposed and Exploited: Hackers Target Veeam Backup Servers

Currently, a group of threat actors, who are known to work with multiple high-profile ransomware gangs, are targeting Veeam backup servers. Since March 28, there have been reports of intrusions showing malicious activity and tools similar to those used in FIN7 attacks. This occurred shortly after the discovery of a severe vulnerability in the Veeam

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Microsoft identifing lockbit and ransomware

Microsoft Identifies PaperCut as Vector for LockBit and Cl0p Ransomware

Microsoft has confirmed that hackers are using PaperCut servers to distribute Cl0p and LockBit ransomware families. The company’s threat intelligence team has linked a portion of these attacks to Lace Tempest, a financially motivated actor previously known as DEV-0950. This group is associated with other hacking groups, such as FIN11, TA505, and Evil Corp. Lace

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Attack on Point32Health

Ransomware Attack on Point32Health Sparks Security Concerns

A ransomware attack has affected multiple systems of Point32Health, a health insurance company in New England that serves over two million individuals. The company detected the attack on April 17 in systems related to “service members, accounts, brokers, and providers.” Point32Health, which resulted from the merger of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan,

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LockBit gang’s blunder causes trouble for Darktrace

Darktrace, a cybersecurity firm based in Cambridge, England, clarified on Thursday that it was not hit with ransomware after being mistakenly added to the LockBit gang’s leak site. The gang had accused Darktrace of monitoring their activities and posted the company on its site. However, cybersecurity experts noted that the gang may have confused Darktrace

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Oakland Suffers Another Devastating Data Leak Post-Ransomware Attack

Officials in Oakland confirmed this week that the ransomware group responsible for the February attack released a much larger amount of data on the dark web. The Play ransomware group initially released 10GB of data last month and followed up with an additional 600 gigabytes of city data. On Tuesday, the city acknowledged the second

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Rorschach Ransomware Threat

Rorschach Ransomware: The Latest Threat to Your Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity researchers are concerned about a new ransomware strain that merges the most effective elements of existing variants. The Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point discovered the ransomware during an investigation into an attack on a US company and gave it the name “Rorschach.” According to Sergey Shykevich, Check Point Research’s threat intelligence group manager, Rorschach

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Sheriff’s Office Leaked

LockBit Ransomware Group Strikes Florida Sheriff’s Office: Data Leaked

The spokesperson for the sheriff’s office confirmed that they suffered a ransomware attack and announced that they had recovered from the incident approximately two weeks ago. The LockBit ransomware group leaked data they stole from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office in northeastern Florida. Cybersecurity experts, who had entrance to the stolen data, claimed it included

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Ring Silence Hack

The Ring Silence Hack: What You Need to Know About Your Home Security

ALPHV, a notorious ransomware gang, has issued a threat to disclose data supposedly involving Ring Silence Hack, a video surveillance firm owned by Amazon. On their dark website, the group listed Ring as one of their victims on Monday, though the specific data that they have access to is unknown and no evidence of data

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