CD Projekt SA said Wednesday it will delay a promised update to the much-criticized role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077, pinning the blame for its slow progress on a recent security breach. From a report: What the Polish publisher didn’t say is that most of its employees have been locked out of their workstations for the past two weeks, according to people familiar…
Tag: Ransom
Some Ransomware Gangs Are Going After Top Execs To Pressure Companies Into Paying
A new trend is emerging among ransomware groups where they prioritize stealing data from workstations used by top executives and managers in order to obtain “juicy” information that they can later use to pressure and extort a company’s top brass into approving large ransom payouts. From a report: ZDNet first learned of this new tactic last week during a phone call…
New Zealand’s Central Bank Says Its Data System Was Breached
The Associated Press reports:
New Zealand’s central bank said Sunday that one of its data systems has been breached by an unidentified hacker who potentially accessed commercially and personally sensitive information. A third party file sharing service used by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand to share and store sensitive information had been illegally accessed, the Wellington-based bank said in a statement….
Hackers Are Selling More Than 85,000 MySQL Databases On a Dark Web Portal
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes:
For the past year, hackers have been breaking into MySQL databases, downloading tables, deleting the originals, and leaving ransom notes behind, telling server owners to contact the attackers to get their data back. If database owners don’t respond and ransom their data back in nine days, the databases are then put up on auction on a dark…
Some Ransomware Gangs are Now Phoning Victims Who Restore from Backups
“We recommend that you discuss this situation with us in the chat,” one caller warned, “or the problems with your network will never end.” ZDNet reports: In attempts to put pressure on victims, some ransomware gangs are now cold-calling victims on their phones if they suspect that a hacked company might try to restore from backups and avoid paying ransom…
Bitcoin Hits New Record, This Time With Less Talk of a Bubble
Bitcoin is back. Again. From a report: Nearly three years after it went on a hair-bending rise and hit a peak of $19,783, the price of a single Bitcoin rose above that for the first time on Monday, according to the data and news provider CoinDesk. The cryptocurrency has soared since March, after sinking below $4,000 at the outset of the…
Patients of a Vermont Hospital Are Left ‘in the Dark’ After a Cyberattack
A wave of damaging attacks on hospitals upended the lives of patients with cancer and other ailments. From a report: At lunchtime on Oct. 28, Colleen Cargill was in the cancer center at the University of Vermont Medical Center, preparing patients for their chemotherapy infusions. A new patient will sometimes be teary and frightened, but the nurses try to make it…
US Fertility Says Patient Data Was Stolen in a Ransomware Attack
U.S. Fertility, one of the largest networks of fertility clinics in the United States, has confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack and that data was taken. From a report: The company was formed in May as a partnership between Shady Grove Fertility, a fertility clinic with dozens of locations across the U.S. east coast, and Amulet Capital Partners, a…
Ransomware Gangs That Steal Your Data Don’t Always Delete It
Ransomware gangs that steal a company’s data and then get paid a ransom fee to delete it don’t always follow through on their promise. From a report: The number of cases where something like this has happened has increased, according to a report published by Coveware this week and according to several incidents shared by security researchers with ZDNet researchers over…
Maze, a Notorious Ransomware Group, Says It’s Shutting Down
One of the most active and notorious data-stealing ransomware groups, Maze, says it is “officially closed.” From a report: The announcement came as a waffling statement, riddled with spelling mistakes, and published on its website on the dark web, which for the past year has published vast troves of stolen internal documents and files from the companies it targeted, including Cognizant,…