2020-5-26 22:40 |
A Verizon report highlights the growing number of ransomware attacks across educational services.
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Senior DoJ official termed ransomware as a major threat to national security. After a reprieve in 2022, ransomware attacks reared their ugly heads again in 2023. The U. S. Department of JustiThe post U.
2023-7-24 01:30 | |
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Crypto-friendly congressman Eric Swalwell has joined the choir of politicians who are urging Congress to look into crypto’s role in ransomware attacks
2021-7-4 12:42 | |
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A panel of experts calls for aggressive tracking of Bitcoin and other cryptos in the light of growing ransomware attacks. Ransomware gangs collected about $350 million last year, more than 3x of 2019.
2021-4-30 18:33 | |
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Ransomware attacks are increasingly becoming the norm as the world struggles with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
2020-8-9 10:00 | |
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A malware research lab says ransomware attacks are at an all-time low right now
2020-4-22 01:47 | |
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Revenue generated by ransomware attacks fell dramatically in March as COVID-19 lockdown measures spread around the world. The drop is somewhat curious considering attackers have never wielded such leverage; medical care facilities are stretched close to their limits in many countries.
2020-4-19 12:35 | |
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Chainalysis says hospitals are still being attacked by ransomware gangs during the pandemic, despite a fall in the overall number of attacks
2020-4-16 05:15 | |
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Microsoft has issued a chilling warning that many hospitals in the United States are at risk of bitcoin ransomware attacks right now amid the coronavirus pandemic. Bitcoin Ransomware Attackers Target Hospitals The giant software company said that “dozens” of hospitals are using vulnerable gateways and that this makes them easy targets for the REvil ransomware that is currently scanning the internet for these types of flaws.
2020-4-6 17:00 | |
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Cyber security experts in 65 countries have come together to fight the scourge of ransomware attacks against hospitals during the COVID-19 crisis
2020-4-2 04:16 | |
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In addition to the coronavirus outbreak that’s sweeping across Europe, it would appear that the French government also faces a wave of ransomware to deal with. The French government’s cybersecurity team CERT-FR was the first agency to sound the alarm.
2020-3-23 19:10 | |
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Vimeo, one of the most popular video-sharing platforms, has announced that several user accounts are at risk of being compromised by malicious actors. Online news media The Register reported that one of their readers had gotten a notification from Vimeo that his account had been inappropriately accessed by a third-party and frozen as a result.
2020-3-19 04:10 | |
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Ransomware attacks and similar extortion schemes took in an estimated $144 million in the course of 7 years. FBI estimates show most of the ransoms were paid in Bitcoin (BTC) and went straight to mixers or exchanges.
2020-2-27 19:00 | |
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Over half of all public and private organizations in the US fell victim to ransomware attacks at some point in 2019. Hackers have continued to employ increasingly advanced techniques to infect machines and encrypt sensitive data.
2020-1-30 02:00 | |
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Travelex, a foreign exchange firm was attacked by a group of cyber hackers who demanded ransom worth $6 million. The firm is the newest casualty in an ongoing explosion of ransomware attacks where hackers are looking for cryptocurrency payouts.
2020-1-8 19:10 | |
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Attackers demanded a payment of $6 million worth of bitcoin after hacking Travelex, a foreign currency exchange company. It is the latest victim in an explosion of ransomware attacks seeking crypto payouts.
2020-1-8 10:30 | |
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In the cat-and-mouse game between hackers and users, less-lucrative crypto-mining malware fell out of favor this year.
2019-12-18 06:00 | |
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Ransomware has been a very big problem for many years now. Despite numerous incidents in 2019, it is unlikely that the threat will diminish in the years to come. Through 2019, the number of ransomware attacks has been rather impressive, for all the wrong reasons.
2019-12-6 06:00 | |
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Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), a state-owned petroleum company established in 1938, has suffered a ransomware attack that has succeeded in shutting down its computers and online payment systems. The hackers are demanding for 565 BTC and have given the firm a 48-hour deadline to send the money.
2019-11-13 14:00 | |
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Ransomware-as-a-service, intricate phishing scams, cryptomining and cryptojacking schemes: Ransomware attacks will continue as long as cryptocurrency remains valuable. The post Cryptomining Attacks Remain One of the Nastiest Malware Threats of 2019 appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-10-29 17:37 | |
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SonicWall, the trusted security partner protecting more than 1 million networks worldwide, today released new threat intelligence data from SonicWall Capture Labs, revealing 7. 2 billion malware attacks were launched in the first three quarters of 2019 as well as 151.
2019-10-22 13:40 | |
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Research is suggesting that the number of ransomware incidents has risen in 2019. The payment method of choice for the majority of this cybercrime is cryptocurrency, predominantly bitcoin. Could BTC price fluctuations be linked to the increase in this online nefarious activity? Bitcoin Price and Ransomware US state departments, public sector facilities schools, hospitals, and businesses are increasingly falling victim to ransomware attacks.
2019-10-21 10:35 | |
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Bitcoin is still very much the dark web‘s favorite cryptocurrency, but those looking to cover their tracks are slowly learning to use privacy-focused alternatives. “While we have previously reported a small shift towards more privacy-focused cryptocurrencies such as Monero, Bitcoin still remains the currency of choice for both legitimate and criminal use,” reports Europol with its latest assessment of internet-based organised crime.
2019-10-14 15:45 | |
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A group of hackers is threatening hospitals from all over the world with a malware called Ryuk. Now, some hospitals from the United States have decided to pay up the ransomware to get rid of this problem, the Next Web’s Hard Fork reported.
2019-10-8 00:46 | |
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Local governments in the US continue to be targeted by ransomware attacks. A number of states have been forced to pay a ransom to regain access to their systems. With the number and sophistication of ransomware attacks increasing, will government institutions be forced to stockpile Bitcoin as a hedge against bad actors?
2019-9-28 15:05 | |
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The US Treasury Department has just announced new sanctions against online criminal groups based in North Korea. The groups have reportedly conducted cryptocurrency ransomware attacks and other cyber crimes aimed at subverting international sanctions against the state.
2019-9-13 23:00 | |
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Incidents of cyber crimes have surged recently and with cryptocurency adoption on the rise and technology consistently evolving, fraudsters have succeeded in hiding their identity. There has also been a rise in the number of crypto-jacking incidents and ransomware attacks all across the world.
2019-9-5 20:00 | |
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The latest McAfee Labs report brings to light significant research on the ever-increasing threat of ransomware and the new family of emerging ransomware. In the first quarter of 2019 itself, the number of ransomware attacks rose by 118% while there were several new classes of ransomware detected as well.
2019-8-30 13:00 | |
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McAfee Labs finds that crypto jacking was up 29% and ransomware up 118% in Q1 of 2019
2019-8-30 03:30 | |
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The US government is looking to protect voter registration databases and systems from ransomware threats ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — a division of the Homeland Security department instituted by president Donald Trump in November last year — fears the databases could be at the receiving end of a ransomware attack.
2019-8-27 09:31 | |
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The threat actor behind the coordinated ransomware attack against multiple Texas local governments may have gained access to its computer systems via a third-party software provider. According to NPR, which first reported the development, the attackers want a collective ransom of $2.
2019-8-23 15:22 | |
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It seems like not a day goes by without a major company being hacked or a government-run institution exposed to ransomware attacks. Now, state agencies in Texas have succumbed to a coordinated ransomware attack that has impacted at least 23 local government entities across the state.
2019-8-19 08:28 | |
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It has become increasingly evident that targeted ransomware attacks on local US government entities are on the rise, costing localities millions as some pay off the perpetrators in an effort to untangle themselves and restore vital systems.
2019-8-2 16:48 | |
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Companies and governments around the world are being targeted by ransomware attackers. The hackers encrypt data and disable IT systems before demanding payment in exchange for the decryption key.
2019-7-28 10:00 | |
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Enterprise search engine Elasticsearch is under threat of being turned into a sophisticated cryptocurrency mining botnet to be used in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro describes a new malware strain that launches multi-stage attacks on publicly accessible databases and servers that run old versions of Elasticsearch software.
2019-7-23 17:54 | |
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Because it’s mostly untraceable and irreversible, cryptocurrency is still the number one choice for criminals to carry out or hide criminal activity or ill-gotten gains. The last few weeks have seen a slowly increasing number of cities in the U.
2019-7-15 20:29 | |
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It's starting to seem like there’s no end to hack attacks on the horizon. All technology can be tweaked and manipulated to enable cybercriminals to carry out the illicit activity and what better way is there for them to receive their ransoms than to use untraceable, irrevocable cryptocurrency? 2019 has seen its fair share of […]
2019-7-14 18:48 | |
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Google Research Shows Ransomware Criminals Cash Out $16 Million From Bitcoin Exchange According to a recently released report and research conducted by Google and leading US universities, $16 million were cashed out by criminals from the defunct Bitcoin exchange BTC-e.
2019-5-9 22:31 | |
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By CCN: In the two years leading up to 2018, a spate of ransomware attacks were analyzed in a report by a team of researchers hailing mostly from leading U. S. universities and Google. Results showed a conservative estimate of total funds stolen to be $16 million, with bitcoin providing a way for malicious actors to take payment from anywhere in the world.
2019-5-9 11:50 | |
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Cryptojacking — the process of infecting computers with malware to mine cryptocurrency — has declined alongside prices during cryptowinter. But like any dextrous organism facing extinction, the virus and its propagators are adapting.
2019-4-27 22:07 | |
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Hackers in the cryptocurrency world are willing to go to great lengths to get their funds, especially when hidden attacks are not their preference. There have been many ransomware attacks, but recent actions against a small Kansas town are taking a much more personal approach.
2019-4-24 02:31 | |
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Not long ago, it was reasonable to think that financial businesses would be the most prominent and most profitable targets of criminal activity. After all, a successful bank robbery could score you tens of thousands of dollars (or more).
2019-4-23 17:29 | |
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A report published by Coveware, a company that assists ransomware victims in facilitating cryptocurrency ransom payments, claims that ransom amounts requested following cyber attacks increased by 90% in Q1 of 2019 as compared to Q4 of 2018.
2019-4-23 13:09 | |
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The average payout for ransomware attacks rose dramatically in the first quarter of 2019 – largely due to one variant called Ryuk.
2019-4-19 17:30 | |
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Global payment processing platform PayPal has been awarded a patent for a technique that can help with the timely detection and reduction of ransomware attacks. Ransomware attacks are a form of malware that takes over the victim's computer, locks up the files therein and demands a ransom before the files can be accessed again — often to be paid in cryptocurrency.
2019-4-19 21:17 | |
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Online payment giant PayPal won a U.S. patent to protect users from losing access to their data due to a crypto ransomware attack
2019-4-19 19:27 | |
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Ransomware attacks are still doing the rounds and one in particular appears to be gaining pace. Cryptocurrency payments made to ransomware attackers increased nearly 90 percent in Q1 2019 over the previous quarter, according to ransomware support firm Coveware’s latest report.
2019-4-18 16:00 | |
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In the cryptocurrency world, it would appear most of the discussions pertaining to ransomware have quieted down. Not because the industry is no longer lucrative, but simply because such attacks have seemingly become so common it isn’t necessarily newsworthy anymore.
2019-4-18 11:08 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Tang. The Chinese security service provider 360 Security has issued a warning that a large number of crypto exchanges have been targeted by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus and that the number is still rising after the recent hacks of crypto exchanges DragonEx, Etbox and BiKi.
2019-4-2 21:54 | |
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Once a piece of ransomware has got hold of your valuable information, there is very little you can do to get it back other than accede to the attacker’s demands. Ransomware, a type of malware that holds a computer to ransom, has become particularly prevalent in the past few years and virtually unbreakable encryption has made it an even more powerful force.
2019-3-28 19:54 | |
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Court documents allege that Eisenberg possessed sexually explicit images of minors on his electronic devices, including images of prepubescent minors and minors under 12 years of age.
An Australian federal court agreed to a petition by markets regulator ASIC to hand over some US$41 million in digital assets invested by over 450 Australians with the mining companies to specialists from advisory and restructuring company McGrathNicol.
According to prosecutors, Lee Jeong-hoon intended to revamp Bithumb’s governance to gain from exchange coins, circumventing financial regulations.
The former FTX CEO took the stand for the first time in his criminal trial, but without members of the jury present.
Filed in September 2022, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill is expected to receive royal assent on Oct. 26, 2023.
The former FTX CEO will remain in jail following three judges with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals calling the arguments behind a motion for release “unpersuasive.”
During the bill’s review phase, the House of Lords agreed on certain amendments to clarify its intent of targeting monetary proceeds from fraud or other financial crimes.