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December 10, 2020

Payment Processing Giant TSYS: Ransomware Incident “Immaterial” to Company

This post was originally published on this sitePayment card processing giant TSYS suffered a ransomware attack earlier this month. Since then reams of data stolen from the company have been posted online, with the attackers promising to publish more in the coming days. But the company says the malware did not jeopardize card data, and that the incident was limited to administrative areas of its business. Headquartered in Columbus, Ga., Total System Services Inc. (TSYS) is the third-largest third-party payment processor for financial institutions in North America, and a major processor in Europe. TSYS provides payment processing services, merchant services […]

January 27, 2021

International Action Targets Emotet Crimeware

This post was originally published on this siteAuthorities across Europe on Tuesday said they’d seized control over Emotet, a prolific malware strain and cybercrime-as-service operation. Investigators say the action could help quarantine more than a million Microsoft Windows systems currently compromised with malware tied to Emotet infections. First surfacing in 2014, Emotet began as a banking trojan, but over the years it has evolved into one of the more aggressive platforms for spreading malware that lays the groundwork for ransomware attacks. In a statement published Wednesday morning on an action dubbed “Operation Ladybird,” the European police agency Europol said the […]

October 25, 2021

Conti Ransom Gang Starts Selling Access to Victims

This post was originally published on this siteThe Conti ransomware affiliate program appears to have altered its business plan recently. Organizations infected with Conti’s malware who refuse to negotiate a ransom payment are added to Conti’s victim shaming blog, where confidential files stolen from victims may be published or sold. But sometime over the past 48 hours, the cybercriminal syndicate updated its victim shaming blog to indicate that it is now selling access to many of the organizations it has hacked. A redacted screenshot of the Conti News victim shaming blog. “We are looking for a buyer to access the […]

December 13, 2021

Inside Ireland’s Public Healthcare Ransomware Scare

This post was originally published on this siteThe consulting firm PricewatersCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland’s public health system. The unusually candid post-mortem found that nearly two months elapsed between the initial intrusion and the launching of the ransomware. It also found affected hospitals had tens of thousand of outdated Windows 7 systems, and that the health system’s IT administrators failed to respond to multiple warning signs that a massive attack was imminent. PWC’s timeline of the days leading up to the deployment of Conti ransomware on May 14. […]