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16 November: An attempt at digital extortion, also known as a ransomware attack, is confirmed by the Library. [ 9 ] 20 November: Rhysida claims responsibility for the breach and launches a week-long auction for 490,191 files of data on the dark web , opening bidding at 20 bitcoin , at the time equivalent to about £ 596,000, for a single buyer.
2019 cyberattacks on Sri Lanka, The 2019 cyberattacks on Sri Lanka were a series of powerful cyberattacks on at least 10 Sri Lankan domestic websites with the public domains of .lk and .com. 2020 cyberattacks on Sri Lanka , a series of cyberattacks on at least 5 Sri Lankan national websites with the top-level domains of .gov and .com.
LockBit is a cybercriminal group proposing ransomware as a service (RaaS). Software developed by the group (also called ransomware) enables malicious actors who are willing to pay for using it to carry out attacks in two tactics where they not only encrypt the victim's data and demand payment of a ransom, but also threaten to leak it publicly if their demands are not met.
Victims of ransomware paid their attackers more than $1 billion last year, a new report has found, a record high.
The first reported death following a ransomware attack was at a German hospital in October 2020. [76] A significant increase in ransomware attacks occurred during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence has demonstrated that the targeted institutions of these attacks included government, finance, and healthcare.
The rapid development of novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools will lead to an increase in cyberattacks and lower the barrier of entry for less sophisticated hackers to do digital harm, Britain ...
It is estimated that the average cost of a data breach will be over $150 million by 2020, with the global annual cost forecast to be $2.1 trillion. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] As a result of data breaches, it is estimated that in first half of 2018 alone, about 4.5 billion records were exposed. [ 4 ]
Woodruff Sawyer surveyed over 40 of its clients and found that the industry has a gloomy outlook this year: 56% of respondents said they believed cyber risk would “increase greatly” in 2024 ...