The headquarters of YES24, South Korea’s largest online bookstore. (Yonhap) SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest online bookstore, YES24, is facing significant backlash after becoming the target of two major ransomware attacks within a span of two months. The first attack, which occurred on June 9, caused a five-day service outage, severely disrupting...Read More
The City of St. Paul hack was in fact a ransomware attack, Mayor Carter confirmed. Officials say the city must initiate a global password reset, calling the action “Operation Secure St. Paul.” Mayor Carter said the city had not paid the ransom and no data was stolen. Posted August 11, 2025 8:10pm EDT Source link .........................Read More
(TNS) — St. Paul officials say the cyber attack that has wrought havoc on the city’s online services for weeks was a ransomware attack, a sophisticated form of online assault in which hackers demand payment in order to let users back into their systems. The city paid no money and instead shut down its network...Read More
The U.S. government and seven international partners have seized the computer servers of the BlackSuit ransomware group and more than $1 million in cryptocurrency that it laundered, the Justice Department said on Monday. The FBI, the Secret Service, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and the IRS’s Criminal Division worked with authorities in...Read More
A ransomware gang the FBI warned the public about last month is claiming to have carried out a cyberattack that has disrupted large parts of St. Paul’s city government. The Interlock ransomware gang added the Minnesota city to its leak site on Monday, claiming to have stolen 43 gigabytes of data. No payment deadline or...Read More
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday it has seized the servers and $1 million in Bitcoin from the prolific Russian ransomware gang behind the BlackSuit and Royal malware. According to the press release, a coalition of global law enforcement agencies, including from the U.S., Canada, Germany, Ireland, France, U.K., and others, seized four...Read More
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), working with federal and international law enforcement agencies, announced last week that it has dismantled critical infrastructure used by the BlackSuit ransomware group. BlackSuit, the successor to Royal ransomware, has been linked to attacks on essential services worldwide. The operation led to the seizure of servers, domains, and...Read More
