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Cleveland's City Hall remained closed to the public Friday, as officials in Ohio's second-largest city continued to grapple with the effects of a ransomware attack. City operations have been ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland's City Hall remained closed to the public Friday, as officials in Ohio's second-largest city continued to grapple with the effects of a ransomware attack. City operations have been hampered all week by the threat, which was first detected Sunday.
After the ransomware attack was announced by Grief, hundreds of Twitter accounts that had all been created in August and September 2021 shared tweets about the attack. Most of the accounts had feminine names, and the majority used the default Twitter profile photo while others used pictures that appeared to be taken from the online dating services Shuri-Muri or Tralolo.
Hive (also known as the Hive ransomware group) was a ransomware as a service (RaaS) operation carried out by the eponymous cybercrime organization between June 2021 and January 2023. The group's purpose was to attack mainly public institutions to subsequently demand ransom for release of hijacked data.
Play (also Play Ransomware or PlayCrypt) is a hacker group responsible for ransomware extortion attacks on companies and governmental institutions. The group emerged in 2022 and attacked targets in the United States, [ 1 ] Brazil, [ 2 ] Argentina, [ 2 ] Germany, [ 3 ] Belgium [ 3 ] and Switzerland.
Last year, ransomware hackers walked away with a record $1 billion, and according to cybersecurity company Coveware, the number of organizations that pay has fallen from over 80% to only about 30%.
US sanctions Chinese firm over potentially deadly ransomware attack. Raphael Satter. December 10, 2024 at 10:15 AM. By Raphael Satter.
This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles.. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continual