ALPHV ransomware
100 MILLION Americans in UnitedHealth PII Breach
Richi Jennings | | 2fa, 2FA policies, 2FA/MFA, ALPHV, ALPHV ransomware, Blackcat, BlackCat ransomware, BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware, Change Healthcare, HIPAA, hipaa laws, hipaa rule, MFA, multi-factor authenication, Multi-Factor Authentication, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), multi-factor-auth, Multifactor Authentication, multifactorauthentication, Ransomware, SB Blogwatch, Steven Martin, two-factor-authentication.2fa, UHG, UnitedHealth
Not cute: $UNH’s Change Healthcare unit paid a big ransom—its IT was as weak as a kitten ...
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US Offers $10M for Info on BlackCat/ALPHV Ransomware Leaders
A week after offering a $10 million reward for information about the leaders of the Hive ransomware group, the U.S. government is turning its attention – and financial power – to the ...
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DOJ Seizes Ransomware Site as BlackCat Threatens More Attacks
U.S. law enforcement agencies said they shut down the online operations of the notorious Russia-linked BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group and developed a decryption tool that will help more than 500 victims regain ...
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Reddit Ransomware Raid Redux: BlackCat/ALPHV Demands $4.5M
Richi Jennings | | ALPHV ransomware, Blackcat, BlackCat ransomware, Breach, Privacy, Ransomware, reddit, Reddit breach, SB Blogwatch
And now, this: John-Oliver-pics protest won’t change Reddit policy, but will ransom demand work? ...
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Ransomware Group Debuts Searchable Victim Data
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, ALPHV ransomware, BlackCat ransomware, Brett Callow, Emsisoft, Ransomware, The Coming Storm
Cybercrime groups that specialize in stealing corporate data and demanding a ransom not to publish it have tried countless approaches to shaming their victims into paying. The latest innovation in ratcheting up ...
Who Wrote the ALPHV/BlackCat Ransomware Strain?
BrianKrebs | | @CookieDays, A Little Sunshine, ALPHV ransomware, Binrs, BlackCat ransomware, BlackMatter, Breadcrumbs, Catalin Cimpanu, Darkside, DuckerMan, duckermanit, Flashpoint, Jason Hill, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Paul Roberts, RAMP, Recorded Future, ReversingLabs, rEvil, Sergey Duck, Sergey Kryakov, Sergey Penchikov, smiseo, The Record, ToX, Varonis, YBCat
In December 2021, researchers discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service named ALPHV (a.k.a. "BlackCat"), considered to be the first professional cybercrime group to create and use a ransomware strain in the Rust programming language ...