This story was originally published on Cybersecurity Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Cybersecurity Dive newsletter. An Iran-linked ransomware group targeted an unnamed U.S. healthcare provider in the lead-up to the Iran war, according to a report Tuesday from Halcyon.  Tracked under the name Pay2Key, the group gained access...Read More

According to a recent LinkedIn post from Bugcrowd, the company is drawing attention to a 50% year-over-year increase in ransomware attacks, while noting that ransom payments appear to be declining as defenders improve. The post also indicates that attackers are shifting tactics toward SaaS-based vectors, double extortion, and direct social engineering of IT teams. Claim...Read More

Foster City declares state of emergency following ransomware attack  MSN Source link .........................Read More

Zach Lewis still remembers that sinking feeling. It was April 13, 2023, at 4:30 in the morning when his phone rang — the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy’s servers were down. He thought it was a hardware failure. The school had been running on end‑of‑life equipment, and his team worked through the night to...Read More

Ransomware hits Trio-Tech’s Singaporean subsidiary  SC Media Source link .........................Read More

The cyber security industry has spent the past three years obsessing over how nation-state actors and script kiddies will weaponise artificial intelligence (AI). But as adoption advances from interacting with large language model (LLM)-powered chatbots to deploying AI agents, the most severe threat may now be coming from inside the house. Speaking at the recent...Read More

Get insights from 233 IT professionals in the healthcare sector. Read the report to discover the impact of ransomware on healthcare organizations over the last 12 months, including: The percentage of establishments hit by ransomware The most common root causes of attacks How often data is encrypted following a ransomware attack The rate of ransom...Read More

The Hacker NewsMar 25, 2026Cybercrime / Ransomware The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said a Russian national has been sentenced to two years in prison for managing a botnet that was used to launch ransomware attacks against U.S. companies. Ilya Angelov, 40, of Tolyatti, Russia, was also fined $100,000. Angelov, who went by the online...Read More

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A Russian man was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison for being behind ransomware attacks.  26 year-old Aleksei Volkov was sentenced for the crime in the Southern Indiana District federal court. As part of the sentence, Volkov will be required to pay back over 9.1 million dollars in restitution to victims of his ransomware...Read More