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[sociallocker id="55298"] ST Engineering Aerospace’s US subsidiary suffered a ransomware attack that managed to extract about 1.5TB of sensitive data from the firm and its partners.According to an article published by The Straits Times on June 6, the Singapore-based company was allegedly attacked by the well-known ransomware gang Maze in
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[sociallocker id="55298"] Malware lab, Emsisoft, released a free decryptor tool on June 4. The tool enables victims to recover files encrypted by Tycoon ransomware attacks without needing to pay the ransom.Researchers from the BlackBerry’s security unit first discovered the ransomware. They stated in TechCrunch that Tycoon uses a Java file
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[sociallocker id="55298"] As SpaceX and NASA celebrated their first human-operated rocket launch on May 30, cybercriminals behind a ransomware known as DopplePaymer launched an attack against one of NASA’s IT contractors.According to a blog post by the hackers, the gang managed to breach the network of the Maryland-based Digital Management Inc,
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[sociallocker id="55298"] A ransomware gang claims to have successfully attacked three universities within the last seven days. They say that their latest attack was against the University of California San Francisco, or UCSF, on June 3.Cryptox had access to the evidence published by NetWalker, a group of hackers, on their
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[sociallocker id="55298"] The ransomware gang REvil has launched an auction feature on the dark web in the past 24 hours, starting with the stolen data from a Canadian company and threatening to auction off information hacked from famous singer Madonna next. Cryptox accessed information from the first auction campaign conducted by
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Malware team, NetWalker, launched a ransomware attack against the Austrian village of Weiz. This attack affected the public service system and leaked some of the stolen data from building applications and inspections.According to the cybersecurity firm, Panda Security, hackers managed to penetrate the village's public network through phishing emails related
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Educational services across the globe have been witnessing a surge in ransomware attacks in 2020. According to Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigation Report, ransomware attacks account for approximately 80% of all cyberattacks suffered.The data suggests 92% of these incidents were motivated by financial reasons, while only 3% aimed to perform
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A new study warns of a new ransomware attack method that runs a virtual machine on target computers in order to infect them with the ransomware. This may play the attack beyond the reach of the computer’s local antivirus software.According to the UK-based cybersecurity firm Sophos, the Ragnar Locker attack
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The ransomware gang that stole almost 1TB of legal secrets from the biggest names in the entertainment industry is now demanding $42 million in cryptocurrency or else it will expose U.S. President Donald Trump’s “dirty laundry”.The gang has already released a 2GB trove of legal documents marked ‘Lady Gaga’ and
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Hackers infected the IT infrastructure of the largest private hospital in Europe with ransomware.Cybersecurity news outlet, KrebsonSecurity, reported on May 6 that hackers compromised the IT systems of Germany-based private hospital, Fresenius. An anonymous source reportedly informed the outlet that the hospital’s systems were infected by the ransomware known as
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