Security News > 2021 > October > The Week in Ransomware - October 1st 2021 - "This was preventable"
A heartbreaking report by the Wall Street Journal about a ransomware attack leading to the death of a baby also illustrates how dangerous these attacks can be for health care.
Lufkin ISD hit by ransomware attack The hack was discovered Saturday but according to Sheila Adams at Lufkin ISD the program they had in place to stop the attack worked because it shut down the system, that's how they knew of the attack.
Trucking giant Forward Air has disclosed a data breach after a ransomware attack that allowed threat actors to access employees' personal information.
JVCKenwood has suffered a Conti ransomware attack where the threat actors claim to have stolen 1.7 TB of data and are demanding a $7 million ransom.
New Version Of Apostle Ransomware Reemerges In Targeted Attack On Higher Education SentinelLabs has been tracking the activity of Agrius, a suspected Iranian threat actor operating in the Middle East, throughout 2020 and 2021 following a set of destructive attacks starting December 2020.
A Hospital Hit by Hackers, a Baby in Distress: The Case of the First Alleged Ransomware Death When Teiranni Kidd walked into Springhill Medical Center on July 16, 2019, to have her baby, she had no idea the Alabama hospital was deep in the midst of a ransomware attack.