Security News > 2022 > January > The Week in Ransomware - January 7th 2022 - Watch out for USB drives
The most noteworthy information that came out today is a new FBI flash alert warning that REvil and BlackMatter were sending malicious USB drives to defense firms that deployed ransomware.
Lapsus$ ransomware gang hits SIC, Portugal's largest TV channel The Lapsus$ ransomware gang has hacked and is currently extorting Impresa, the largest media conglomerate in Portugal and the owner of SIC and Expresso, the country's largest TV channel and weekly newspaper, respectively.
January 4th, 2022 New Mexico county 'first' local-government ransomware victim of 2022 Government buildings in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, were closed to the public Wednesday in response to what appears to be the first ransomware attack this year against a local government in the United States.
It's a new year, and with it comes a new ransomware to keep an eye on called 'Night Sky' that targets corporate networks and steals data in double-extortion attacks.
January 7th 2022 FBI: Hackers target US defense firms with malicious USB packages The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned US companies in a recently updated flash alert that the financially motivated FIN7 cybercriminal group is targeting the US defense industry with packages containing malicious USB devices to deploy ransomware.
Amigo-A spotted a new Problem Ransomware variant that appends the.