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On the Evolution of Ransomware

December 30 2020 By Bruce Schneier in Cybercrime, Ransomware, Security

Good article on the evolution of ransomware:

Though some researchers say that the scale and severity of ransomware attacks crossed a bright line in 2020, others describe this year...
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Russia’s SolarWinds Attack

December 28 2020 By Bruce Schneier in Cybercrime, espionage, Russia, Security, vulnerabilities

Recent news articles have all been talking about the massive Russian cyberattack against the United States, but that’s wrong on two accounts. It wasn’t a cyberattack in international...

When zombie malware leads to big-money ransomware attacks

December 17 2020 By Paul Ducklin in Cybercrime, Malware, Phishing, Ransomware, Rat, Security

SophosLabs investigates SystemBC, a malware utility for launching fileless malware attacks, including big-money ransomware.

Finnish Data Theft and Extortion

December 10 2020 By Bruce Schneier in Cybercrime, cybersecurity, healthcare, Security

The Finnish psychotherapy clinic Vastaamo was the victim of a data breach and theft. The criminals tried extorting money from the clinic. When that failed, they started extorting money...

Gift card hack exposed – you pay, they play

November 24 2020 By Paul Ducklin in Cybercrime, Security, Vulnerability

These crooks hacked into a network hoping to get everyone in the company to buy them gift cards.

On That Dusseldorf Hospital Ransomware Attack and the Resultant Death

November 24 2020 By Bruce Schneier in Cybercrime, medicine, Ransomware, Security

Wired has a detailed story about the ransomware attack on a Dusseldorf hospital, the one that resulted in an ambulance being redirected to a more distant hospital and...