SAN FRANCISCO, May 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Delinea, a pioneering provider of solutions for securing human and machine identities through centralized authorization, has unveiled new research highlighting how ransomware attacks have continued to surge over the past year, despite fewer victims paying. Over two-thirds (69%) of organizations globally have fallen victim to ransomware, with...Read More
Australia became on Friday the first country in the world to require victims of ransomware attacks to declare to the government any extortion payments made on their behalf to cybercriminals. The law, initially proposed last year, only applies to organizations with an annual turnover greater than AUS $3 million ($1.93 million) alongside a smaller group...Read More
News Center Maine reports: A cyber incident affecting several hospitals in Maine is now under investigation. Covenant Health shared with NEWS CENTER Maine that it became aware of connectivity issues impacting the organization on Monday. The health care system said it immediately discontinued access to all data systems across its hospitals, clinics, and provider practices. Covenant...Read More
Victoria’s Secret website down as security incident strikes. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Hot on the heels, no pun intended, of ransomware attacks against retailers in the U.K. such as Marks and Spencer and the Co-Op, as well as a security incident at Harrods, comes news that the lingerie superstar that is Victoria’s Secret has...Read More
What is the Interlock ransomware? Interlock is a relatively new strain of ransomware, that first emerged in late 2024. Unlike many other ransomware families it not only targets Windows PCs, but also systems running FreeBSD. If you are impacted, you will find that your files have not only been encrypted but have also had “.interlock”...Read More
The high-profile DragonForce ransomware gang exploited three now-fixed vulnerabilities in SimpleHelp’s remote monitoring and management software (RMM) to compromise an unnamed MSP and then attack the service providers’ downstream customers.The attackers were able to exfiltrate sensitive data from their targets and use double-extortion tactics in hopes of forcing the victims to pay a ransomware, according...Read More
SINGAPORE: A ransomware attack on a Singapore-based data handling service provider has compromised the personal information of at least 146 Income Insurance policy holders. The company in question, DataPost, is in the early stages of investigating the attack, the firm said on Thursday (May 29). DataPost was responsible for the printing and mailing of some of...Read More
Introduction of mandatory ransomware payment reporting in Australia today is a welcome development. But it won’t reach its full potential as a cybersecurity mechanism unless the government openly shares what it learns from these reports. The ransomware problem is too big for the government to solve alone. Public reporting of the information, with identities removed,...Read More
