Ransomware attacks are escalating globally, with massive financial and societal impacts. In 2024, a Fortune 50 company paid a record $75 million ransom, while South African organisations face rising threats, including the June breach of the National Health Laboratory Service, which exposed 1.2 terabytes of sensitive data. Avinash Singh, a computer science lecturer at the...Read More
In addition to browser cookies, significant amounts of other sensitive information were also exposed. These include 18 billion user-assigned IDs, 1.2 billion session tokens, and various personal identifiers such as emails, names, and geolocation data – valuable assets for threat actors engaged in identity fraud or social engineering schemes. Source link .........................Read More
Redazione RHC : 26 June 2025 15:33 This is not the first time that a cyber attack has resulted in the loss of human lives.We had already discussed it in the article “I deferichò per il ransomware. I casi noto, le tendenze e il punto sull’Italia“, in which we analyzed the direct link between cyber incidents and...Read More
Cyberattacks have always been thought to be disruptive and expensive, but a horrific incident in the U.K. has highlighted the very real and deadly impact of cyber warfare on critical infrastructure. In a terrifying turn of events, a ransomware attack that disabled NHS blood services in London has now been directly connected to the death...Read More
A ransomware attack targeted a healthcare organisation in the UK The disruptions to patient care tragically contributed to a patient death Criminals target critical services as they are likely to pay the ransom Ransomware attacks are devastating for victims, but this has now reached a new and tragic level, with the UK’s National Health Service...Read More
ClickFix, a deceptive attack method, saw a surge of more than 500% in the first half of 2025, making it the second most common attack vector after phishing, according to ESET’s latest Threat Report. The report, which looks at trends from December 2024 to May 2025, found that ClickFix accounted for nearly 8% of all...Read More
Redazione RHC : 26 June 2025 09:46 We continue our series of articles on IABs by writing about an Iranian cyber contractor that not only works as an initial access broker but also provides support to ransomware gangs to fill their and their own pockets with money. In a CISA report published in August 2024, CISA, the...Read More
Four members of the REvil ransomware group have been released from custody despite pleading guilty to fraud and malware distribution charges. The Dzerzhinsky Court of St. Petersburg allowed Roman Muromsky, Andrei Bessonov, Mikhail Golovachuk, and Dmitry Korotaev to walk free after sentencing them to five years in prison on Monday, ruling that the gang members...Read More
