McLaren Health Care, a nonprofit healthcare system with a network of hospitals and clinics across Michigan and Indiana, has revealed a significant data breach that may have compromised the personal and medical information of approximately 743,000 patients. The breach stemmed from a ransomware attack that targeted the Karmanos Cancer Institute branch last summer. FCRF x...Read More
Nearly half of organisations hit by ransomware attacks in the past year chose to pay the ransom, making it the second-highest ransom payment rate in six years, according to Sophos, a cybersecurity solutions provider. According to its ‘State of Ransomware 2025’ report, 53 percent of those who paid negotiated a lower amount than the initial...Read More
Prodatix Case Study: Ransomware Resilience and Ransomware Recovery Ransomware attacks aren’t just encrypting and deleting your data. They’re deleting your hypervisor which can even destroy immutable repositories if they sit on top of Hyper-V or VMware. And now, cyber-liability insurance companies can sequester your server infrastructure while they bring in a cyber-forensics company to determine...Read More
Erie Insurance reports that it has made progress in reconnecting several business systems and applications as it continues to recover from a network outage that is now 17 days old. The insurer said the network and system outage it initiated on June 7 helped contain a threat. According to the insurer, “there is no evidence...Read More
British businesses are suffering significantly more damaging losses from ransomware attacks compared to the rest of the world, where things appear to be moving in a more positive direction, according to Sophos’ latest annual State of ransomware report, now in its sixth edition. The study of 3,400 ransomware victims in 17 countries, just over...Read More
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Only half of ransomware attacks on organizations this year have involved data encryption, once the attack’s defining feature, according to a Sophos report published on Tuesday. Both the average ransom demand and average ransom payment...Read More
Ransomware attacks on UK organisations are becoming more costly and disruptive, according to new research from cybersecurity firm Sophos. The company’s latest State of Ransomware in the UK 2025 report reveals that the average cost to recover from an attack—excluding any ransom paid—has risen to $2.58 million (£2.04 million), while ransom demands themselves have more...Read More
More than 743,000 individuals have been affected by a data breach at Michigan-based McLaren Health Care. The nonprofit health system notified the impacted individuals that hackers accessed its network between July 17 and August 3 2024. The breach was tied to a ransomware attack targeting both McLaren and the Karmanos Cancer Institute. Although the breach was...Read More
