Security News > 2022 > December > The Week in Ransomware - December 9th 2022 - Wide Impact

On Tuesday, Rackspace finally confirmed everyone's fears that a ransomware attack caused the outage.

Rackspace has not provided any details on the attack, including the ransomware operation behind it and if the threat actors stole data.

December 6th 2022 Rackspace confirms outage was caused by ransomware attack.

Texas-based cloud computing provider Rackspace has confirmed today that a ransomware attack is behind an ongoing Hosted Exchange outage described as an "Isolated disruption."

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a new warning today for the country's healthcare organizations regarding ongoing attacks from a relatively new operation, the Royal ransomware gang.

Cloud computing provider Rackspace warned customers on Thursday of increased risks of phishing attacks following a ransomware attack affecting its hosted Microsoft Exchange environment.

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