Ransomware gangs turn to new aggressive tactics as organisations harden their defences Delivering ransom notes to homes and fake extortion claims are part of a new suite of ransomware tactics. Organisations across the Asia-Pacific and Japan region are improving their network defences, taking advantage of endpoint detection and response platforms to cut off intrusions at...Read More
An Iranian national pleaded guilty Tuesday to participating in an international ransomware scheme that resulted in tens of millions of dollars in losses to U.S. cities, corporations, healthcare organizations, and other entities in California, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, and Oregon. Sina Gholinejad, 37, pleaded guilty to one count of computer fraud and abuse...Read More
The DragonForce ransomware operation successfully breached a managed service provider and used its SimpleHelp remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform to steal data and deploy encryptors on downstream customers’ systems. Sophos was brought in to investigate the attack and believe the threat actors exploited a chain of older SimpleHelp vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2024-57727, CVE-2024-57728, and CVE-2024-57726 to...Read More
A RobbinHood Attack Against Baltimore Cost City $19 Million David Perera (@daveperera) • May 27, 2025 The Baltimore skyline in a photo dated April 24, 2025. (Image: Kate Scott/Shutterstock) An Iranian national behind a spate of ransomware attacks against U.S. municipalities including an attack that cost the city of Baltimore $19 million pleaded...Read More
adam121 AdobeStock_315095274 For the first time, AI, including tools such as LLMs, has overtaken ransomware as the most pressing issue, emerging as the top concern for security leaders, according to the State of Cybersecurity: 2025 Trends Report, published by Arctic Wolf and conducted by Sapio Research. While organizations are making substantial cybersecurity investments, the report...Read More
An Iranian national pleaded guilty Tuesday to participating in an international ransomware and extortion scheme involving the Robbinhood ransomware that struck U.S. cities, including Baltimore.Archive 11 News video above: Some city departments report network, email outages (May 8, 2019)Baltimore City officials discovered malware in 2019 that prompted email, phones and computers to be shut down,...Read More
The Wisconsin city of Sheboygan warned about 67,000 people that a ransomware attack in October gave hackers access to their personal information. The city filed breach notification letters with regulators on Friday explaining that Social Security numbers, state IDs and license plate numbers were taken when hackers breached the city’s systems on October 31, 2024....Read More
ABILENE, Texas — Today is the deadline for the cyber attack ransom that was demanded by the Russian-based ransomware group known as Qilin. The City of Abilene has previously stated that they will not be paying this ransom. RELATED | Russian group ‘Qilin’ claims Abilene data breach, demands ransom by May 27 According to a...Read More
The developer of the popular MATLAB programming language and numeric computing environment said a ransomware attack is impacting its IT systems. Massachusetts-based MathWorks provided an update to customers on Monday after initially reporting outages on May 18, confirming that it experienced a ransomware attack that took down online applications and internal systems used by staff. ...Read More
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 27, 2025– Elastio, the leading ransomware recovery assurance platform, announced a strategic partnership with Advance2000 (A2K), a premier provider of private cloud infrastructure and managed IT services. This collaboration introduces the Advance2000 Ransomware Recovery Assurance Platform, a comprehensive solution powered by the Elastio Platform and integrated with Veeam in A2K’s secure cloud environment....Read More
