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The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) has officially announced the disruption of the BlackCat ransomware operation and released a decryption tool that victims can use to regain access to files locked...
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on the inner workings of the ransomware operation led by Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a Russian national who was indicted by the U.S. government earlier...
"As a result of our office's tireless efforts, alongside FBI Miami, US Secret Service, and our foreign law enforcement partners, we have provided BlackCat's victims, in the Southern District of Florida and around the world, the opportunity to get back on their feet and to fortify their digital defenses. We will continue to focus on holding the people behind the BlackCat ransomware group accountable for their crimes." An AlphV admin said the law enforcement agencies only had access to a "Stupid old key" for the old blog site which was deleted by the group a long time ago and has since not been used.
The Department of Justice announced today that the FBI successfully breached the ALPHV ransomware operation's servers to monitor their activities and obtain decryption keys. With this access, the FBI silently monitored the ransomware operation for months, siphoning decryption keys and sharing them with over 500 victims so that they did not have to pay a ransom for a decryptor.
The threat actors behind the Play ransomware are estimated to have impacted approximately 300 entities as of October 2023, according to a new joint cybersecurity advisory from Australia and the...
Ransomware attacks continue at a record-breaking pace, with Q3 2023 global ransomware attack frequency up 11% over Q2 and 95% year-over-year, according to Corvus Insurance. Companies scramble to integrate immediate recovery into ransomware plans.
American global apparel and footwear giant VF Corporation, the owner of brands like Supreme, Vans, Timberland, and The North Face, has disclosed a security incident that caused operational disruptions. In response to the detected unauthorized access on its network, the company shut down some of its systems and brought in external experts to help contain the attack.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation says the Play ransomware gang has breached roughly 300 organizations worldwide between June 2022 and October 2023, some of them critical infrastructure entities. "Since June 2022, the Play ransomware group has impacted a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure in North America, South America, and Europe," the three government agencies cautioned today.
Finally, law enforcement has had some confirmed actions this week, including arresting a money launderer linked to Hive ransomware and a Russian pleading guilty to running a crypto exchange used by ransomware gangs. December 4th 2023 Tipalti investigates claims of data stolen in ransomware attack.
The Kraft Heinz Company says its systems are all up and running as usual as it probes claims that some of its data was stolen by ransomware crooks. Kraft Heinz, which owns a ton of food and beverage brands including Oscar Meyer, Kool-Aid, Jell-O, Maxwell House, and Grey Poupon, declined to answer our specific questions about the Snatch extortion gang's boasts that it had compromised the manufacturer and obtained internal information.