Tag: inc ransom
‘Dark Unicorns’ target US healthcare
Ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector have risen by a third in 2024 with the US the prime target. Cybersecurity company Black Kite reports 374 incidents in the past year, a 32.16 percent rise in the number of attacks on the industry over 2023. Healthcare is now among the top targets for ransomware, surpassed only by manufacturing and professional services. The rapid rise in ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector is the result of increasing ruthlessness on the part of ransomware gangs. Until relatively recently, some sectors, such as healthcare and education, were considered off-limits. According to Black Kite, if an affiliated criminal gang attacked a healthcare organization, the core ransomware group would frequently step in, apologizing to the victim organization -sometimes even decrypting the ransomed data for free.
INC Ransom Hits Three UK Health Orgs – December 4th
German authorities have made arrests linked to drug-selling platform Crimenetwork, seizing over $1 million in crypto assets. Crimenetwork is alleged to be the largest darkweb marketplace in the country and enabled users to buy and sell drugs, and offered illicit services such as the forging of documents and trading of stolen data.
‘INC Ransom’ Group Threatens to Release NHS Data – March 28th
The 'INC Ransom' ransomware group publicly threatened to release three terabytes of NHS Scotland sensitive patient and staff data, after publishing a smaller sample size proving the viability of the threat. NHS Dumfries and Galloway's efforts to prevent the attack from being repeated are underway in collaboration with Police Scotland and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
CISA Warns Google Chrome Users of Open Source Vulnerabilities – January 4th
In an announcement addressed to US Federal Agencies, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned Google Chrome users of a vulnerability (CVE-2023-7101) impacting the web browser's open-source Perl library. The Google vulnerability affects an open-source project, Google Chromium WebRTC, which as a result allows threat actors to cause browser crashes and launch other actions.