reader comments 65 with 48 posters participating Share this story Russian law enforcement authorities said on Friday that they have arrested 14 people associated with REvil, a top ransomware group that has disrupted critical operations of wealthy targets and held their data hostage. The action, carried out by Russia’s FSB, the successor agency to the… Read More »
Enlarge / The seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seen at the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington, D.C. reader comments 20 with 16 posters participating Share this story For three weeks during the REvil ransomeware attack this summer, the FBI secretly withheld the key that would have decrypted data and computers… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 34 with 29 posters participating Share this story July has so far ushered in at least two new ransomware groups. Or maybe they’re old ones undergoing a rebranding. Researchers are in the process of running down several different theories. Both groups say they are aiming for big-game targets, meaning corporations or… Read More »
reader comments 49 with 37 posters participating Share this story Kaseya—the remote management software seller at the center of a ransomware operation that struck as many as 1,500 downstream networks—said it has obtained a decryptor that should successfully restore data encrypted during the Fourth of July weekend attack. Affiliates of REvil, one of the Internet’s… Read More »
reader comments 95 with 61 posters participating Share this story As many as 1,500 businesses around the world have been infected by highly destructive malware that first struck software maker Kaseya. In one of the worst ransom attacks ever, the malware, in turn, used that access to fell Kaseya’s customers. The attack struck on Friday… Read More »
Enlarge / Ransomware Getty Images reader comments 128 with 63 posters participating Share this story The cyberattack that halted some operations at the world’s biggest meat processor this week was the work of REvil, a ransomware franchise that’s known for its ever-escalating series of cut-throat tactics designed to extort the highest price. The FBI made… Read More »
reader comments 67 with 52 posters participating Share this story Darkside—the ransomware group that disrupted gasoline distribution across a wide swath of the US this week—has gone dark, leaving it unclear if the group is ceasing, suspending, or altering its operations or is simply orchestrating an exit scam. On Thursday, all eight of the dark… Read More »