Ransomware

12 people have been detained as part of an international law enforcement operation for orchestrating ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure.

Acer confirmed cyberattack on its offices in India after hackers with the Desorden Group claimed to have breached servers and stolen 60 GB of files.

VirusTotal studied some 80 million ransomware samples that had been uploaded to the online malware scanning platform over the past year.

Israeli hospital was targeted by a ransomware attack, officials said, with the state's cyber directorate calling it the first such attack on a hospital.

Microsoft said hackers took advantage of recently discovered faults and weaknesses to distribute ransomware specifically targeted at the app developers.

The operators behind the REvil ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) staged a surprise return after a 2 month hiatus following the widely publicized attack.

Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore, a subsidiary of Tokio Marine Group announced it was hit by a ransomware cyberattack.

Ransom extortion under threat of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is a lot easier to pull off than a full-blown ransomware assault.

Microsoft was informed of the vulnerability and released a few patches to attempt to fix the problem after windows users new ransomware attack.

The U.S. is presently combating two pandemics coronavirus and ransomware attacks, using malicious software to access and encrypt data.