Fallout from the ransomware attack on Canvas used by thousands of universities

A former White House official says artificial intelligence was used in this attack, and that personal information may be at ...
CRN

Accenture’s Lack Of Transparency In Ransomware Attack Sets ‘Bad Example’: Solution Providers

High-profile IT companies such as Accenture, which recently experienced a LockBit ransomware attack, could do a lot to help others in the industry by disclosing the details of an attack upfront, ...
ABC7

Cybercriminals conduct ransomware attack, causing outages at 60 credit unions, federal agency says

About 60 credit unions in the United States are experiencing outages because of a ransomware attack on an IT provider the institutions use, according to a federal agency. The video above is ABC13's 24 ...
JD Supra

BA Depicted by OCR as Example of Ransomware Dangers Recovered Quickly, Didn’t Expect Fine

Tim DiBona clearly remembers Christmas Eve 2018 when the staff of his small firm—Doctors’ Management Service (DMS)—arrived at their West Bridgewater, Mass., office to find their computer system down. ...
JD Supra

The Dangers of Dialogue: Ransomware Attackers Want to See Your Cyber Insurance Policy

Amidst the recent surge in ransomware attacks on U.S. businesses—with crypto criminals and sometimes State actors invading and encrypting computer and operating systems and extorting funds in exchange ...
CSOonline

How Ransomware Works and How to Prevent It

Ransomware can strike any industry, from logistics and media companies to non-profit organizations and governments. Even hospitals are targets for ransomware, holding data and lives hostage.
Bleeping Computer

StopCrypt: Most widely distributed ransomware evolves to evade detection

Update 3/15/24: Update added below where other researchers express concern the analyzed sample is old. Update 3/18/24: SonicWall explained to BleepingComputer that their original report incorrectly ...
Bleeping Computer

New Hunters International ransomware possible rebrand of Hive

A new ransomware-as-a-service brand named Hunters International has emerged using code used by the Hive ransomware operation, leading to the valid assumption that the old gang has resumed activity ...
ZDNet

Ransomware: Now gangs are using virtual machines to disguise their attacks

Cyber criminals are increasingly using virtual machines to compromise networks with ransomware. By using virtual machines as part of the process, ransomware attackers are able to conduct their ...
VentureBeat

How ChatGPT can turn anyone into a ransomware and malware threat actor

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Ever since OpenAI launched ChatGPT at the ...
WeLiveSecurity

Ransomware: To pay or not to pay? Legal or illegal? These are the questions …

The recent spate of ransomware payments cannot be the best use of cybersecurity budgets or shareholder capital, nor is it the best use of insurance industry funds. So, why are companies paying and ...