Tag: ransom
All You Need to Know About India’s First Data Protection Bill
By Rudra Srinivas
Most people in India have never accessed the Internet through a computer. In fact, their encounter with the Internet is only through...
CISO MAG Rewind: Biggest Financial Data Breaches of 2019
By Rudra Srinivas
The Banking and Financial sectors were hit with a constant stream of cyber-attacks when compared to other sectors. According to Intsights Q1...
Asigra Vows Defense to Canadian Non-Profit Organizations
Asigra Inc., a Canadian cloud-based backup, recovery and restoration software service provider, announced a new program that focusses on defending the backup repositories and...
Henry County’s Malware Attack Dents Administrative Pockets
To restore parity from a malware attack and a corresponding data breach, Henry County, a county located in north-central Georgia, ended-up paying more than...
LifeLabs Pays Ransom to Recover 15 million Users Data
LifeLabs, a Canadian laboratory testing and diagnostics services provider, reported of a Ransomware attack to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of...
6 Simple Moves to Respond to a Ransomware Attack
Numerous companies and state governments have been plagued by ransomware attacks, which are now more common than ever. Unlike other cyber threats that usually...
New Ransomware “Zeppelin” Targets High Profiles in Canada and Europe
Security researchers stated that cybercriminals have created a new ransomware variant titled “Zeppelin” to target healthcare and IT companies in the U.S., Canada, and...
Hackers Demand US$14M in Ransom to Unlock Systems in U.S. Nursing...
Virtual Care Provider, a technology services provider for nursing homes and acute care sites, was hit with a ransomware attack that seized access to...
Microsoft Declines Rumors about “Teams” used in Ransomware Attacks
Microsoft has declined rumors about its communication platform Teams being used by cybercriminals to install ransomware on company networks.
The speculations from unknown sources are...
Ransomware named Defray on the loose
Yet another ransomware is making the rounds. Dubbed Defray, the ransomware is targeting the education, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors.
According to Proofpoint, a cybersecurity...
