We did not see much research released on ransomware this week, with most of the news focusing on new attacks and LockBit affiliates increasingly targeting hospitals.
These attacks include ones against Yakult Australia and the Ohio Lottery by the new DragonForce ransomware operation.
The most concerning news is that LockBit affiliates increasingly target hospitals in attacks, even though the ransomware operation says it's against the rules.
In December 2022, one week before Christmas, a LockBit affiliate attacked the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, causing diagnostic and treatment delays.
The ransomware operation said this was against the rules and issued a free decryptor.
This week, we learned that LockBit attacked three hospitals in Germany, disrupting emergency room services.
We also learned about two New York hospitals seeking a court order to have Boston cloud storage company Wasabi Technologies return stolen data stored on one of its servers by the LockBit ransomware gang.
According to a court order, the Carthage Area Hospital and Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center were attacked in September, with the LockBit affiliate renting cloud storage at Wasabi to store stolen data.
The two hospitals now request that the courts force Wasabi to provide and delete the data from their servers.
As malware campaigns continue to abuse this feature, which could lead to ransomware attacks, the feature has again been disabled.
Ohio Lottery hit by cyberattack claimed by DragonForce ransomware.
Lockbit ransomware disrupts emergency care at German hospitals.
German hospital network Katholische Hospitalvereinigung Ostwestfalen has confirmed that recent service disruptions at three hospitals were caused by a Lockbit ransomware attack.
PCrisk found a new STOP ransomware variant that appends the.
PCrisk found a new ransomware variant that appends the.
December 28th 2023 Microsoft disables MSIX protocol handler abused in malware attacks.
PCrisk found a new Live Team ransomware that appends the.
Ransomware Roundup - 8base December 29th, 2023 Hospitals ask courts to force cloud storage firm to return stolen data.
Two not-for-profit hospitals in New York are seeking a court order to retrieve data stolen in an August ransomware attack that's now stored on the servers of a Boston cloud storage company.
Ransomware gang behind threats to Fred Hutch cancer patients.
This Cyber News was published on www.bleepingcomputer.com. Publication date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 20:40:13 +0000