Security News > 2022 > July > The Week in Ransomware - July 22nd 2022 - Attacks abound
New ransomware operations continue to be launched this week, with the new Luna ransomware found to be targeting both Windows and VMware ESXi servers.
We also learned how the Conti ransomware gang breached the Costa Rican government's systems and that the FBI recovered $500,000 in ransoms paid by health care to the Maui ransomware operation.
Stop and drops a ransom note named RECOVERY INFORMATION.TXT. July 18th 2022 Colorado police investigating ransomware attack on small town The police department of Frederick, Colorado said it is investigating claims that the town government was hit with a ransomware attack.
PCrisk found new STOP ransomware variants that append the.
A threat actor is promoting a new version of their free-to-use 'Redeemer' ransomware builder on hacker forums, offering unskilled threat actors an easy entry to the world of encryption-backed extortion attacks.
A small Canadian town is being extorted by a global ransomware gang The Canadian town of St. Marys, Ontario, has been hit by a ransomware attack that has locked staff out of internal systems and encrypted data.
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