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The first major cyberattack took place on 14 January 2022, and took down more than a dozen of Ukraine's government websites. [1] According to Ukrainian officials, around 70 government websites, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , the Cabinet of Ministers , and the National and Defense Council (NSDC), were attacked.
On 8 November 2021, the United States Department of Justice unsealed indictments against Yaroslav Vasinskyi, who was still in Polish custody, and another suspect — Russian national Yevgeniy Polyanin. Vasinskyi was charged with conducting ransomware attacks against multiple victims including Kaseya, facing a maximum sentence of 115 years in ...
A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.
On 26 April 2022, the president of the chamber of deputies of Romania, Marcel Ciolacu, the prime minister, Nicolae Ciucă, and the minister of foreign affairs, Bogdan Aurescu, visited Kyiv in Ukraine to meet the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, and the president of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Stefanchuk.
According to the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), nearly $600 million was paid out by victims of ransomware in the first half of 2021 alone.
In April 2021, a member of the Conti Group claimed to have an anonymous journalist take a 5% cut of ransomware payments by pressuring victims to pay. [20] During the Russian invasion of Ukraine of 2022, the Conti Group announced its support for Russia and threatened to implement "retaliatory measures" if cyber-attacks were launched against the ...
The first half of 2021 proved to be fruitful for the cybersecurity market, setting new records in investing and activity within the space. A recent report from Momentum Cyber tracked the record ...
In a May 19, 2021, interview with The Wall Street Journal, Joseph Blount said why he ultimately decided to pay a $4.4 million ransom to hackers who breached the company's systems; "It was the right thing to do for the country." He also said, "I know that's a highly controversial decision".